Category: Independent Opinion

  • Candidate’s capabilities would be service to Holmdel

    Ray Tai would be a big plus to Holmdel’s school board with his organization capability, experience and dedication to serving others. I have known Ray since his high school years. Time surely has changed his looks and his weight, but his capability to keep things well organized and his dedication to whatever he is committed…

  • Committee’s Democrats commended for choice

    In the events that led up to the Jan. 4 Hazlet Township Committee reorganization meeting, it was rumored state Sen. John O. Bennett III would represent our town as its attorney. Republican member of the Township Committee believed Mr. Bennett would be the best selection because of his experience, and knowledge of Hazlet, as well…

  • Thanks extended to supporters of silent auction

    Thanks extended to supporters of silent auction On March 8, Middle Road School PTO hosted its sixth annual silent auction. On behalf of myself and all the members of the committee, we would like to thank all who came out to support us. This year’s event was the biggest yet, producing profits the committee never…

  • Get back to reality with school budget increase

    Get back to reality with school budget increase Where has reality gone when a school budget represents two-thirds or more of the real estate taxes paid ($17 million in municipal taxes for Matawan and Aberdeen, and $34 million for 3,700 students in the school system)? Now we are talking about a 10 percent increase in…

  • Patient outraged by doctors’ appointment policy

    It used to be doctors or hospitals would refuse to treat sick people if they did not have health insurance. Well, now it’s gotten to the point where having health insurance no longer guarantees you an appointment or treatment with a doctor. Recently, at a doctors’ office in Hazlet, I was, for lack of a…

  • Reader: Letter is an example of anti-American rhetoric

    Carol Abaya’s guest column in the March 5 Independent disgusted me. She talks of American arrogance and ego. If you needed a perfect example of both, she exemplifies them in her column. As for "facts," that’s another matter. China did not invade India, it was a border squabble. She seems to want to make the…

  • Hazlet resident grateful to stranger for act of kindness

    I would like to thank a very special woman. When I finished my shopping at the A&P in Holmdel, I put all my groceries on the checkout counter, and the cashier rang everything up and then got my total. When I ran my credit card through the machine, it said "insufficient funds." I did it…

  • Reader corrects date of Nike Missile base explosion

    Just a quick note to correct a major error in a story in your March 5 edition on volunteers being sought in Middletown for a major emergency team. The reporter, in listing other major emergency situations in the past in Middletown, listed the Nike Missile explosion in Holmdel in the 1960s. The Nike Missile base…

  • Obituaries

    ROBERT BRUSCA, 69, of Middletown died Feb. 16 at home. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was a station foreman at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Jersey City, for 40 years, retiring in 1997. He was a communicant of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, New Monmouth section of Middletown. He…