Category: Independent Opinion

  • Proposed YMCA won’t bring ‘riff raff’ into Holmdel

    I was shocked to read the comments in last week’s Independent regarding the proposed YMCA in Holmdel. The editorial board summarized it well: "From the sound of some of the comments made at last week’s Township Committee meeting … it appears that worries about the kind of people a YMCA might bring into Holmdel are…

  • Basketball article missed important points of complaint

    One week ago, I gave the Independent a story regarding arbitrary and capricious enforcement of a Hazlet Township ordinance regarding my basketball hoop and pole. Between the facts I related and the actual article published Aug. 7, the staff writer missed several three-point shots and free throws. In an effort to appeal to media sensationalism,…

  • School board, teachers fail to reach agreement

    By Josh DavidsonStaff Writer School board, teachers fail to reach agreement By Josh Davidson Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — With the first day of the 2002-03 school year less than one month away, the township’s teachers will be on the job when school opens despite not having reached a contract agreement with the Board of Education.…

  • Obituaries

    MARGARET JONES, 79, of Hazlet died Aug. 5 at Bayshore Health Center, Holmdel. Born in Newark, she lived there until moving to Hazlet 34 years ago. She was a homemaker. She was a communicant of Holy Family Roman Catholic Church, Union Beach. She was predeceased by her husband, Willard F. Jones in 1996. She is…

  • Open space makes cents

    Open space is a hot topic, and it seems as if it is being considered everywhere, even in towns that don’t appear to have any. The mad rush to put the question on the November ballot is the result of a fast-approaching Aug. 23 deadline for municipal submission of the tax question to the county…

  • BRSA chairwoman clarifies misrepresentation of facts

    I am responding to your Aug. 7 article titled "Flushing Money Down the Drain," as well as your opinion column "No Drop in the Bucket." Let me begin by sharing my disappointment at the biased reporting represented in your article. It appears various people were contacted for your story, yet to my knowledge there was…

  • Republicans’ challenge of Russell Dronne’s record ‘not a smart idea’

    When the regular Republican team invited the public to check the record on Russell Dronne’s voting pattern in relation to their campaign claims (Independent, July 10), it was reminiscent of Gary Hart challenging reporters to "follow me around." Not a smart idea, nor a sincere challenge. As an interested resident and attendee of the cited…

  • Wall should be in ‘penalty box’ for disrupting meeting

    The De Cotiis letter comparing Holmdel Township Committeeman Terence Wall’s supposed accomplishment to a "hat trick" in ice hockey is a very liberal use of fact which borders on creating fiction. It is also a partisan endorsement of the negative, bullying politics he and other regular "old guard" Republicans have inflicted on Holmdel. With regard…

  • Homeless Animals’ Day focuses on pet overpopulation

    Aug. 17 is National Homeless Animals’ Day. The International Society for Animal Rights began National Homeless Animals’ Day to publicize the overwhelming magnitude of dog and cat overpopulation, to increase public awareness of the millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually due to a lack of homes, and to emphasize the importance of…