Category: Independent Opinion
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Enrichment Program director extends thanks to local school officials
The Matawan Student Enrichment Program offers a wide variety of courses for children, preschoolers and parents on Saturday mornings during the school year. The program has an enrollment of more than 700 individuals per semester, with the students coming from Matawan, Aberdeen and surrounding communities. Our program had concerns recently as to where our "home"…
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Hazlet resident cautions to beware of township officials bearing gifts
I, along with most other residents of Hazlet, have received a mysterious present from the township Department of Public Works: a great, green refrigerator box on wheels. Why, this thing is so big you could bury it in the back yard, stock it with canned food and Perrier, and use it as a bomb shelter…
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Correct choice for Holmdel Nike site is a ‘no-brainer’
There are two competing proposed uses for the former Nike base site: 1. housing for homeless families with children; 2. increased parking for the Little League fields. When we strip away all the procedural concerns, the home rule rhetoric, whose application was submitted first, etc., those are the choices. Is it difficult to decide which…
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It’s easy to pontificate on Nike site from a safe distance
Your depiction of the people of Holmdel as prejudiced and insensitive in your Opinion column and in the accompanying cartoon is both insulting and unfair. We who live in Holmdel have worked very hard to be able to live here. It is a beautiful, peaceful town and we wish to keep it that way. Not…
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Neighborhoods shouldn’t be used as racecourses
The dictionary definition of the word "neighborhood" reads as follows: "Neighborhood: a comparatively small, populated district." Nowhere does it mention the phrase "to be used by novice/professional drivers as a racecourse." The definition of neighborhood has no mention of the words "dragster straightaway," "slalom course," "high-banking turns," or "a roadway to be used at a…
