Category: Independent Opinion

  • Three little changes add up to big change for Belford ferry operation

    The case for the Bayshore Ferry Terminal rests on the services to be supplied by the ferry operator. The ferry operator, New York Waterway, in its 1999 proposal, offered to spend $6 million to build three new boats designed to cruise at 32 knots over the open waters between Belford and Manhattan. These three boats…

  • Woman’s Club of Middletown appreciates support of tree project

    The members of the Woman’s Club of Middletown would like to thank the residents of Middletown and the surrounding areas for their overwhelming support of the club’s recent Holiday Gift Trees project. The trees were based at the New Monmouth Road and Route 35 branch and the Harmony Road branch of the Sovereign Bank of…

  • A word of advice to new municipal leaders

    With all but two municipal reorganizations complete in Independent towns, this is an appropriate time to welcome the new officials and mayors who will be dealing with the myriad problems, large and small, that are sure to arise in the coming year. In Middletown, Township Committeewoman Joan Smith will be sworn in Sunday as mayor.…

  • The ‘devil is in the details’ of ferry debate Guest Column Robert J. Riker

    The ‘devil is in the details’ of ferry debate Guest Column Robert J. Riker According to Henry Nicholson, Monmouth County’s director of transportation, commuter service at the proposed Bayshore Ferry Terminal will start at 5:30 a.m. and run approximately 40 minutes after that. Similar service would depart Manhattan starting at 4 p.m. This sounds as…

  • Holiday tradition greatly appreciated by resident

    I would like to publicly thank the volunteers from Aberdeen Fire Company No. 1 of Lloyd Road and Church Street. They brought excitement and joy to my children with Santa on the fire truck. Gifts which were brought to the firehouse were given out by Santa as he rode through Aberdeen. The time, effort and…

  • Holmdel will lose 2 school principals to buyout offer Board member resigns over merit increase contract

    Staff Writer By cindy tietjen Holmdel will lose 2 school principals to buyout offer Board member resigns over merit increase contract HOLMDEL — Four of the school district’s nine administrators, including two of its four principals, will be leaving at the end of the school year. Holmdel High School Principal Frederick Lucas, Village School Principal…

  • Schools chief squelches redistricting rumors DeTalvo says critics are putting the cart before the horse

    Staff Writer By Elaine van develde Schools chief squelches redistricting rumors DeTalvo says critics are putting the cart before the horse MIDDLETOWN — While the Board of Education says that no plan to move special education students has been set in stone, parents of special education students think the board’s promises are as elusive as…

  • Board of Ed appoints assistant principal at Indian Hill school

    Board of Ed appoints assistant principal at Indian Hill school HOLMDEL — The Board of Education recently appointed Margaret Kerr to the position of assistant principal at Indian Hill Elementary School. Kerr was unanimously appointed at the board meeting, which was held Dec. 20, and is expected to join the staff at Indian Hill no…

  • LET THERE BE SONG —

    Garbed in the new sweaters donated by the Keyport Hall of Fame, members of Keyport school district choruses sing in concert last week at Keyport Central School. JEFF HUNTLEY