Category: Independent Opinion
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Seems like only yesterday
Here we go again with the Middletown Township Education Association contract negotiations. For many Middletown school parents and residents, it must seem like only yesterday that the last contract was settled in dramatic fashion. The settlement finally came after several nail-biting days of a teachers’ strike and a string of court appearances at the start…
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Center needed for sake of Middletown’s kids
I have been following the community controversy that has been going on in this township over the proposed town center. Once again, there is strife in Middletown. I have read the articles on the pros and cons of this proposed town center. I think we are all missing the point here: our children. Our children…
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Guest Column Raymond
Guest Column Raymond O’Grady Sr. Adopted ordinance will come back to haunt town I listened intently to a very heated debate at the June 9 Township Committee meeting over the proposed town center. The sides were clearly drawn with the residents surrounding the area opposing the ordinance and, in my estimation, the greater number of…
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Learn more about Monmouth Housing Alliance and help it do its job
I am writing as a pastor in Holmdel concerning the low-income housing that is being requested from the federal government near Phillips Park, Holmdel. I cannot speak for all the members of my church, the Holmdel Community Church, but I can say I am distressed by the level of misrepresentation and fear surrounding this issue.…
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Developers should heed red signs and deed land to the township
Since the red sign protesting the building of the "Town Center" was stolen from my property last night, I thought I’d let my voice be heard through this letter. We do not need another shopping mall. We certainly don’t want more traffic on Route 35, and the whole concept of a town center with the…
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Holmdel Township should welcome, not penalize, needy families
The former Nike military base in Holmdel on Telegraph Hill Road has housed families for years. There were never any problems. Why should families with economic hardships be any different? Homeless children at risk are not at fault and must not be punished. These nine, three-bedroom homes could provide a home, a yard and a…
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Town square opposition guilty of ‘signage’ displays also
In response to your July 11 editorial "There ought to be a law," you single out the developers of the proposed Middletown Town Square for placing their signs along the grassy median of Route 520 near Garden State Parkway Exit 109. You further state this roadway is under the jurisdiction of the county, "which does…
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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. MARGARET FILONUK, 82, of the West Keansburg section of Hazlet died July 12 at Victoria Health Care Center, Matawan. Born in Nanty-Glo, Pa., she resided in New…
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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. LOUIS D. GOODRICH, 60, of West Long Branch died July 2 at Atlantic City Medical Center. Born in Michigan, he relocated to West Long Branch in 1991.…
