Category: Independent Opinion

  • Vo-tech school district should be funded through county, state

    How much more can school districts take? This is the time of year when local public school administrators stretch every penny they have to create a school budget to present to taxpayers that is fiscally prudent, while providing the highest quality of education for students. Unfortunately, forces always seem to be working against the school…

  • Classes held amid

    construction at H.S. Board of Education may allow North students to enroll at South By josh davidson Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — Students at High School North are learning to adjust to temporary classrooms and relocations during the referendum renovation work. With construction under way at the school, classroom disruptions are now a fact of life…

  • Your Turn

    Guest ColumnLeoSlobodinNew Jersey Guest Column Leo Slobodin New Jersey’s ‘invasive sprawl’ must be curtailed (Open letter to Gov. James E. McGreevey) The blight of growth is spreading over New Jersey like fungus. Where once we were and continue to term ourselves the "Garden State," our soils are being rapidly smothered under homes, warehouses and concrete,…

  • Students show pride in their country

    By josh davidsonStaff Writer Students show pride in their country By josh davidson Staff Writer MATAWAN — Three Matawan Avenue Middle School students were honored for their expressions of patriotic spirit and democracy through essays. The three seventh-grade students were presented awards last month for essays written for the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Ladies…

  • Your Turn

    Guest ColumnGeorge MoffattNat Guest Column George Moffatt Nat’l Park Service’s conduct shows value it places on fort At least 16 Fort Hancock buildings with broken windows and open doors at Sandy Hook were unnecessarily exposed to the ravages of February’s record "Blizzard of ’03," even after the National Park System (NPS) was strongly criticized last…

  • Holmdel board hires new superintendent of schools

    By maura dowginStaff Writer By maura dowgin Staff Writer HOLMDEL — The search for a superintendent of schools came to an end when the Board of Education unanimously approved hiring a new schools chief from Florida, N.Y. Maureen E. Flaherty, 52, was appointed to the position of superintendent at a regular Board of Education meeting…

  • Middletown resident: Bus children to keep them safe

    I have two words for the Middletown Board of Education: Samantha Runion. I am referring to the 5-year-old girl kidnapped from right outside her California home and murdered. I have those words for them because they expect my children — and all other children that live less than two miles from their respective elementary schools…

  • Obituaries

    CATHERINE T. FLYNN, 88, of the Cliffwood section of Aberdeen, died Feb. 2 at Bayshore Health Center, Holmdel. Born in New York City, she was a lifelong resident of Cliffwood. She was employed at MetLife, New York City, and was a clerk at J.J. Newberry’s, Keyport, retiring in 1973. She was a member of St.…

  • Family extends thanks to Lonna’s Links supporters

    Once again, we would like to extend our appreciation to everyone who was involved with raising more than $7,000 for the Lonna’s Links Juvenile Diabetes family team. This donation to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation will be used so researchers can get one step closer to finding a cure, and it is approximately $2,000 more…