Category: Independent Opinion

  • Guest Column Frank Tomaino Square’s architect urges public to attend meetings

    Guest Column Frank Tomaino Square’s architect urges public to attend meetings During the next few weeks, the architectural model of the proposed town square will be shipped from Baltimore and put on public display in Middletown. As one of a group of architects who had input in the design, I am eager to help showcase…

  • Time for town hall has come

    For more than a decade, the Hazlet Township Commit-tee has tried to make the dream of building a new town hall a reality. Unfortunately for these local officials, planning and doing are two very different things in Hazlet. In an effort to upgrade and improve the decaying town hall and antiquated police department, the committee…

  • Guest Column Winnie Scuteri Public opinion says get rid of plan to widen Route 520

    Guest Column Winnie Scuteri Public opinion says get rid of plan to widen Route 520 The June 18 meeting held by the Monmouth County engineer regarding the county roads in Lincroft was a great success for the people of Lincroft. Many thanks to the residents and Lincroft business owners who attended and who spoke. The…

  • Obituaries

    Greater Media Newspapers prints obituaries as a free community service, at no charge to the families of the deceased or to the funeral homes that provide the information. JAMES ("JIM") A. AMEND, 69, of Colts Neck died July 5 at Bayshore Hospital, Holmdel, after a short illness. He was vice president of Amend Publishing, Shrewsbury,…

  • Guest Column Paul Hencoski Lack of accomplishments outweighs DeTalvo’s credits

    Guest Column Paul Hencoski Lack of accomplishments outweighs DeTalvo’s credits As a Middletown taxpayer, I think it is sad that as Jack DeTalvo leaves the Middletown school district he lists as his greatest accomplishments the passing of this year’s school budget and the renovation of the buildings. This is sad, first of all, because for…

  • Letters President, vice president present one side of issue

    Letters President, vice president present one side of issue From what I have been reading in your newspaper, it seems the neighborhood group that is making the big stink over town square must have a total of two members, both of whom clearly do not care about this town. The only people is this special…

  • Town’s pied pipers headed down path to destruction

    We had to destroy the village in order to save it." (Lt. William Calley, Vietnam, 1968.) "We had to destroy the educational system in order to save it." (Middletown Township Board of Education, 2002.) Here’s a summer reading assignment for all the brilliant members of that school board: re-read the final chapter of the Pied…

  • Consolidate strip malls for ‘downtown’ in Middletown

    If Middletown really wants a new "downtown," then I have a suggestion: Build the town square, but, on one condition — that the strip malls along Route 35 be consolidated into the new downtown area. This plan allows Middletown to correct the unfortunate overdevelopment of Route 35 and help reduce its abundance of empty retail…

  • Family extends thanks and gratitude for assistance

    The family of Jane M. Jones would like to express their gratitude to the people who were so helpful during Jane’s illness and after her death. We extend our sincere thanks to the following organizations: the Keyport Fire Department, the Ladies’ Auxiliary of Raritan Hose Company, St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, the Keyport School System,…