Category: Independent Opinion

  • Cutting Middletown school aid unfair considering huge surplus

    New Jersey has a billion dollar surplus this year. New Jersey will increase state aid to education by $585 million. Monmouth County will receive $24 million of that increase in aid. Middletown Township will lose $340,000 in aid. Why are we losing money when there is a huge surplus? Because we are rich! You are…

  • One for the recipe books

    It wasn’t so long ago that those who value open space and farmland preservation had little hope of ever preserving the Chase Bank tract in Holmdel. It’s still not a done deal, but it looks like persistence, innovative ideas and the hard work of many are about to make this dream a reality. The most…

  • This is what the proposed Middletown town center is really all about

    As a member of the Concerned Citizens of Middletown, I could not resist in letting your readers know the facts about the proposed town center. Our group has posted signs throughout Middletown and now someone is going around taking them down. Why? Are they afraid once the residents of Middletown find out the facts, there…

  • Fischetti says town center is harmful to Mid’town Guest Column Frank R. Fischetti

    Fischetti says town center is harmful to Mid’town Guest Column Frank R. Fischetti To the casual or sophisticated observer it must be apparent that the Route 35 corridor, from Keyport in the north through Hazlet, Holmdel, and Middletown, to Red Bank in the south, is overdeveloped with housing, businesses and retail stores. The corridor of…

  • Rooke family extends thanks during trying time

    We wish to express our deepest gratitude to all our family members, our friends and neighbors for flowers, food, cards of sympathy sent to Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills section of Pemberton and memorials sent to Deborah Hospital Foundation at the time of the loss of our husband, father, grandfather and brother, Arthur…

  • Obituaries

    LEIF RASMUSSEN, 83, of the Belford section of Middletown, died Jan. 29 at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he was raised in Norway and moved to Middletown in 1955. He was a carpenter for N.Y. District Carpenters Union No. 926, Brooklyn, for 40 years, retiring in 1982. He served in the U.S.…

  • More obituaries

    ARTHUR FELDNER SR., 71, of Old Bridge died Jan. 23 in Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Surviving are his wife, Dorothea E. Ballard Feldner; two sons, Arthur Feldner Jr. of Monroe and Robert Feldner of Norristown, Pa.; a daughter, Linda Baumann of Spotswood; three brothers, Lester F. Feldner Jr. of the Toms River section of Dover,…

  • MARIE ORTIZ REACHING OUT

    MARIE ORTIZ REACHING OUT Children at Oak Hill Academy (top photo), Middletown, recently assembled lunches in decorated bags to donate to the homeless in New York City through a Bridges program that is run out of the Holmdel Community Church. At right, Barbara Branden helps James Abate fill his decorated bag.

  • On Campus

    Ronald M. Cleary, Hazlet, has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Drew University, Madison. The senior is majoring in English and psychology. He is the son of Ronald and Judith Cleary, Hazlet. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., has named the following local students to the dean’s list for the fall…