Category: Independent Opinion

  • Motorcyclists should invest in mufflers, resident says

    As more and more people come to Red Bank and the surrounding towns during the summer, we once again have to deal with the noise pollution created by muffler-less motorcycles. Every weekend, there’s an invasion of motorcycle riders for whom "louder is better" and who seem to have no regard for maintaining the peace and…

  • Guest Column

    Rocco F. PascucciBehavior at board meeting appalls ex-member Rocco F. Pascucci Behavior at board meeting appalls ex-member At the June 26 Holmdel Township Board of Education meeting, I saw the crowd of people or, more appropriately, as they say in Ancient Rome, "the mob of people" systematically degrade and defame the superintendent of schools. This…

  • Panel head disagrees with estimates for new library

    I agree with you that Hazlet is urgently in need of a new Town Hall, but the plan the Hazlet Township Committee has directed the engineers and architects to develop is nowhere near as "financially responsible" as your or the committee contend. In the proposal given to the Township Committee June 18, the new, state-of-the-art…

  • Resident wants simple question placed on Nov. ballot

    Resident wants simple question placed on Nov. ballot The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders (April 11) and the Ocean County Board of Freeholders (April 3) both refused my request to place the following question on their respective county ballots: "Is taxation thievery?" The question consists of only three words, but the impact of a "yes"…

  • Caring families make Fresh Air Fund an ongoing success

    This summer marks our 125th anniversary of serving children from New York City. In 1877, the Rev. Willard Parsons, a minister of a small, rural parish in Sherman, Pa., asked members of his congregation to provide country vacations as volunteer host families for New York City’s neediest children. This was the beginning of The Fresh…

  • Attack on local priest’s character saddens resident

    I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. A Catholic priest steps down because of tensions at St. Mary’s surrounding Sept. 11 and his response to it. The Independent rushes to the Middletown police and the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office to see if there are any criminal investigations going on! How sad. The man is…

  • Residents congratulate Wall on completion of hat trick

    We recently read the Nike site is going to remain a park. This is a tremendous accomplishment. In fact, the site was approved for a transient homeless shelter and the 2001 Holmdel Township Committee did nothing about it. Thank goodness Terence Wall made the issue public, hammered home the facts, and demanded relief for Holmdel…

  • Ignorance of ethics no excuse

    An elected official and borough attorney have come under fire this week in Keyport. Mayor Kevin Graham rightfully filed ethics charges against Committeeman Brian T. Stalter and Borough Attorney Wesley Kain. Graham’s charges stem from what appears to be a blatant conflict of interest by both Stalter and Kain. In January the Borough Council voted…

  • Resident asks public to consider a clean energy supplier

    I am writing because I would like to offer your readers information that will allow them to act in a way that would enable them to be part of the solution for a better environment. Today, much of our electricity comes from power plants that spew toxic gases into our air, harming our health and…