Category: Independent Opinion

One of the most ridiculous things we have ever heard in connection with Holmdel politics (and there are many ridiculous things to choose from) is that the Township Committee (Committeeman Larry Fink and Deputy Mayor Russell Dronne, to be specific) has decreed that we, as longtime Holmdel residents and taxpayers, will be paying for a…

Congratulations to the Middletown Board of Education! Once again, you have missed the mark. Your letter to the Middletown school community concerning the current state of negotiations and the exodus of teachers from Middletown schools is grossly misguided. Teachers are leaving Middletown schools not for better salaries elsewhere, but to escape abuse and gain respect.…

All of us, no matter how old we are, can remember that one teacher who had that special impact on our lives. For me, it was Joseph Dudzik. I first met Mr. Dudzik in 1973 as an eighth-grade student in the Matawan Avenue Middle School in the Cliffwood section of what was then Matawan Township,…

Mort Lipitz wrote last week that the preservation of the Chase tract was begun "some four years ago," and that "measurable progress" began only after the re-election bids of the two incumbents (Robert Giannone and Henry Ferris) in 1998 failed. He is correct in that the 1999 Township Committee cast the critical votes to preserve…

Staff Writer By ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Schools chief not happy with town’s $525K cut HAZLET — School officials are saying cuts to the defeated $37.3 million budget are too deep. Township officials say you can’t cut corners that weren’t there in the first place. To hear either side talk is to now know that prospects…

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. PETER V. DROBISH, 82, of Middletown died May 19 at home. Born in Scranton, Pa., he was a Middletown resident since 1957, and retired to Edgewater, Fla.,…

Aberdeen and Matawan officials should be ashamed of themselves for walking out of a joint meeting with the Matawan-Aberdeen Regional Board of Education simply because it was being videotaped for distribution over the local public access television channel. The topic to be discussed — cuts to the defeated 2002-03 school budget tax levy — was…

Guest Column Elizabeth Thompson Officials eroded writer’s confidence in democracy (An open letter to the Matawan-Aberdeen Regional Board of Education and Aberdeen Township Council) I have four children 8, 6, 3 and 1 year — two of which attend Lloyd Road School. I was at the school board meeting last night in an attempt to…

My eighth-grade science class was recently assigned a science fair project. I decided to test the waters in multiple locations throughout Monmouth County for certain chemicals. Although my tests are currently incomplete, I feel it is important to inform the public as to what I have observed. I was shocked by the amount of litter…