Category: Independent Opinion

  • Holmdel teachers vote of no confidence still stands

    Staff Writer By darlene diebold HOLMDEL — Relations between the teachers union and school superintendent have been improving, but there are still some problems. "Dr. [Leigh] Byron and I have had more personal contact since March, but he may not really be getting the message," said Holmdel Township Education Association (HTEA) President Doug Sanecki on…

  • Soccer league donates its old uniforms to Passback

    Staff Writer By Alison Granito Soccer league donates its old uniforms to Passback Fourth-grade students at Ravine Drive School, Matawan, sort through uniforms to be donated by the Aberdeen-Matawan Soccer League to Passback, a program that supplies underprivileged children around the world with soccer equipment. MATAWAN — With old uniforms piling up and storage space…

  • There ought to be a law

    It’s only been a couple weeks since the June 26 primary election, but most political candidates, aware that residents don’t want campaign signs littering their roadways indefinitely, have removed them. That doesn’t seem to be case, however, with the Middletown town center developers or their supporters. Their signs, touting the proposed multi-use mega-development, are still…

  • We just don’t get it when it comes to budget

    The Middletown community must face the fact that we failed the school budget, and now we must pay the consequences. Recently I sat at a Board of Education meeting and heard impassioned parents, students and even a teacher plead for a Russian class — a valued class that has inspired kids and offers a step…

  • Guest Column Robert J. Riker Belford Citizens Association maintains ferry terminal is no ‘Field of Dreams’

    Guest Column Robert J. Riker Belford Citizens Association maintains ferry terminal is no ‘Field of Dreams’ The Belford Citizens Association had asked the N.J. Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration to review the ferry terminal project in Belford before granting an additional $1.5 million in funding. The BCA’s request was based on incontrovertible…

  • Foundation seeking donations to pay off interest-free Chase tract loan

    The Chase tract deal has closed! Monmouth Conser-vation Foundation (MCF) is proud to be a part of the partnership which helped to preserve the 416-acre Chase tract in the heart of Monmouth County. We thank Chase Manhattan Bank for its community-minded spirit in listening to the wishes of the residents of Holmdel on the disposition…

  • Middletown panel made big mistake with town center site rezoning (An open letter to the Middletown Township Committee)

    Middletown panel made big mistake with town center site rezoning (An open letter to the Middletown Township Committee) What are you thinking? Didn’t your mothers ever tell you that you cannot make chicken soup out of chicken feathers. By amending the 1993 master plan you have curtailed the developers of the "town square" from attaining…

  • Thanks to everyone who helped with Raritan H.S. Project Graduation

    Thanks to everyone who helped with Raritan H.S. Project Graduation I would like to thank the Hazlet Township Committee and Margaret Margiotta for letting the Raritan High School Project Prom/Project Graduation Parent Association have its Project Graduation for the senior class of 2001 at the Hazlet Swim and Tennis Club. The seniors had a really…

  • Wall’s unfounded remarks pose roadblock to proposal

    Unfounded oral and written statements made by Township Committeeman Terence Wall have fueled the characterization of Holmdel as an elitist "not in my backyard" community, because of opposition to an application for the purchase of federal land and abandoned homes to house eight displaced families, which can only undermine the township’s ability to reach a…