Category: Independent Opinion

  • Your Turn

    Train station project must enhance residents Train station project must enhance residents’ lifestyle Guest Column Debra Buragina During the past few weeks, residents of Matawan and Aberdeen have been reading the newspapers regarding the train station redevelopment project. The information that has been reported has been misleading. It has created an unfavorable atmosphere that is…

  • VFW, auxiliary wish new Mid’town mayor well in 2003

    On behalf of the members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 2179 and the Ladies Auxiliary, we wish to extend our sincere congratulations to Rosemarie D. Peters on being named mayor of Middletown Township for the year 2003. Wishing you and your family great success and good health during the ensuing year. Mary…

  • Resident makes plea for teen activities in Hazlet

    Hazlet Township should sponsor more events for teens. Yes, I know the Hazlet Recreation Department provides students with the availability of sports and monthly dances for seventh- and eighth-grade children, but what about high school students? If there were more dances or even more clubs for the teens of this town, it would keep many…

  • Senior disagrees with Fink’s revaluation of town

    In response to Mayor Larry Fink’s revaluation of Holmdel, that the actual taxes people pay will basically stay the same, is not correct. I have lived in Holmdel for 37 years and have gone through the past revaluations, and my taxes have increased quite a lot and never stayed the same. In the past, the…

  • RONALD W. DRAGER, 57, of Hazlet died Jan. 20 at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Born in Jersey City, he resided there before moving to Hazlet 29 years ago. He was a refrigeration mechanic and longshoreman for Sea Land and Local 1804, Elizabeth. He was predeceased by his parents, May and Theodore Drager. He is survived…

  • Business district’s ‘Chicken Bowl’ outrages resident

    I would like to say the Keyport "Chicken Bowl" is a slap in the face to the needy people of Keyport. I help with collecting food, delivering baskets and the collection of clothing for the people who need a little help. Never in all my years could something be so disgraceful as to bowl outside…

  • Matawan resident says some leaders lack vision

    The newspapers have been filled lately with articles and letters from public officials from Matawan and Aberdeen on the subject of the train station area redevelopment. The (supposed) agreement between Matawan and Aberdeen officials agreed upon months ago has now been twisted and turned into a "who should we believe?" scenario. An agreement was reached…

  • Resident says community needs leaf pickup, not ferry

    As told to the mayor and Township Committee of Middletown in a letter dated Dec. 18, my family and I have lived in the Belford section of Middletown for approximately 28 years. We have tried to support each current administration because we have found them responsive to the needs of Belford. However, in our neighborhood,…

  • Wants articles to spotlight pols’ efforts to cooperate

    As a resident of Holmdel, I was very disheartened to read the article "GOP: Dems not making effort to be bipartisan" in the Jan. 15 Independent. This was ostensibly a "news" article on the Holmdel Township Committee’s reorganization meeting of Jan. 6. However, the entire focus of the article was on the dissatisfaction of the…