Category: Independent Opinion
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Guest Column
Manuel Blasco Manuel Blasco ‘Fix was in from beginning’ New Jersey style politics are alive and well in Middletown. In July of 2001, the Middletown Township Committee (comprised of then Mayor Joan Smith, Deputy Mayor Rick Brodsky and committee members Patrick Parkinson, Rosemarie Peters and Raymond O’Grady) held a vote that seemingly downsized the town…
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Guest Column
Gerald F. GergaskoReader gives bad grade for snowmobile oversight Gerald F. Gergasko Reader gives bad grade for snowmobile oversight ‘T he Independent reserves the right to edit all letters and guest columns for grammar, spelling, length and questionable content." The above was taken directly from your opinion page where "questionable content" evidently was overlooked by…
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Guest Column
John FrattelloneZero, not smart, growth needed for Middletown John Frattellone Zero, not smart, growth needed for Middletown The battle regarding the proposed town square development is being waged on several fronts. The editorial section of the local newspapers has been serving as an active source for propaganda. The proponents of the development are quite liberal…
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Be wary of phone calls misrepresenting the facts
Political ads contain the words, "Paid for by the Committee to Elect ‘so and so’ " because they are required to do so by law. But now a political group has found a way to promote its candidates and smear its opponents, while posing as an independent polling organization. On Aug. 21, I received a…
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Town center will bring noise, filth and corruption
What seems to be forgotten when it comes to the town center debate is what brought people to Middletown in the first place. Many current residents, including myself, are originally from Hoboken, Jersey City or other locales in Hudson County. We worked hard in order to have a better life that what those dirty, overcrowded,…
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Misleading phone messages mar truth about candidates
Russell Dronne and Larry Fink have worked for a decade to stop suburban sprawl from eating up the last of Holmdel’s open space. Indeed, they led the effort to educate the community about sprawl by forming CILU (Citizens for Informed Land Use), thereby getting many of us involved in opposing overdevelopment. To portray either one…
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Resident decries choice of circus as fund-raiser
The offensive odor that swept into Hazlet with the Carson and Barnes Circus had nothing to do with the elephants or any other unfortunate animal performers. Rather, its source can be traced to the unimaginative township officials who organized the event in order to fund the township’s 2003 fireworks, as well as those who bought…
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Baseball camp gives Lincroft resident good feeling
I just came from a community event that made me feel very proud, and, I think, deserves recognition. My son has been attending the Bill Grier basketball camp at St. Leo’s in Lincroft this week. The Grier family holds a wonderful camp each year in their father’s memory. The family gives a great deal of…
