Category: Independent Opinion

  • Parents urge bicycle riders to wear helmets for safety

    Parents urge bicycle riders to wear helmets for safety The Monmouth County Council of Parents and Teachers Association (MCCPTA) is an affiliate of New Jersey Congress of Parents and Teachers and the National PTA. We, as advocates for all children and youth, are concerned about the lack of using bicycle helmets. PTA strongly advocates for…

  • Area resident voices opinion about Red Bank meters

    Area resident voices opinion about Red Bank meters I believe parking meters to be very unfriendly to the consumer who is shopping or dining. If Red Bank installs more parking meters, I will definitely take my business elsewhere. Many others share this opinion. Nancy Coe Rumson

  • Supporters of veterans group’s poppy campaign thanked

    Supporters of veterans group’s poppy campaign thanked Each year, during the Memorial Day week the Veterans of Foreign Wars distributes poppies and accepts donations from the public. The donations are dedicated to, and can only be used to, assist needy veterans and their families. Some of the examples of our dispensing of the proceeds made…

  • Professor commends Holmdel offi­cials for budget choice

    Professor commends Holmdel offi­cials for budget choice After reading the recent article in the Independent, I commend the Holmdel Township Committee’s approval of our town budget, with an increase of 3.4 cents (9 percent) as opposed to last year’s increase of 5.5 cents (18 percent). Of the 3.4-cent increase, 2.5 cents results from higher fixed…

  • Obituaries

    Obituaries DR. LESTER B. YOUNG, 83, of Johnson City, Tenn., died July 5 at Ivy Hall Nursing Home, Elizabethton, Tenn. A graduate of Auburn (Ala.) University School of Veterinary Medicine, he was the owner of Young’s Animal Clinic, Johnson City, before retiring in 1983. He served on the Tennessee State Veterinary Examining Board and was…

  • Resident praises Fink for successful grant writing

    Resident praises Fink for successful grant writing Holmdel Township Committee members Serena DiMaso and Terence Wall recently published a letter lauding township personnel for working hard on grant applications that bring in funding for community planning and open space preservation. What they failed to mention is the primary author for the Smart Growth Grant application…

  • Residents thanked for supporting fireworks display

    Residents thanked for supporting fireworks display The Hazlet Recreation Commission would like to thank the residents for their support of our annual fireworks display. We pay for this display entirely through fund-raising and donations. This year’s fireworks cost $12,500, and money was generated through: $5,500 from the 2002 circus, a $1,200 donation from the Hazlet…

  • Your Turn

    Guest Column Your Turn Guest Column Charles H. Walker Jr. Curator urges involvement, patronage in local projects I would like to take a moment to draw attention to five projects I am involved with which are significant to our area: the North Atlantic Maritime Foundation, to be located on Sandy Hook, the Sandy Hook Military…

  • Shellfishing ‘1 inch from extinction’

    Shellfishing ‘1 inch from extinction’ The shellfishing industry that is trying to exist in the Raritan and Sandy Hook bays is about one inch from extinction for all the wrong reasons. During good times, the $7 million payroll it generates pays for a lot of mortgages, car payments and kids. Poor water quality, the worst…