Category: Independent Opinion
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Fink can give Holmdel just the kind of proactive leadership it needs Your editorial and cartoon on the proposed PNC Bank Arts Center Open Air Market in the May 3 issue of your newspaper was right on target. Holmdel does not benefit from, nor need, this kind of an attraction, especially with the risk that…
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Let’s praise, not criticize, our children who are just being kids In response to Kathy and Jack Makely’s guest column in the May 3 Independent, I am a parent of a 14-year-old boy in Port Monmouth, and I resent the fact that you think I don’t care enough to supervise my son. I’m sure his…
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for the record The Matawan Downtown Alliance plans to sponsor a farmers’ market in the Summit Bank parking lot on Main Street next to Borough Hall, not in the railroad station parking lot as indicated in an article in last week’s Independent. Middletown Board of Education candidate Maria Hemberger supported the separate ballot question in…
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Middletown students cannot afford budget cuts As one of the many Middletown residents who worked hard to pass the school budget, I ask township officials to please consider a few points as they review the school budget. The last time large cuts were made to the budget the educational impact was devastating to our students.…
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Saddened to be leaving Middletown school district I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Middletown community for its support over the past four years that I have spent being the reading and language arts K-8 supervisor for Middletown Township schools. As I prepare to leave Middletown, I think back to my interview…
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Lest we forget – as Memorial Day approaches As we approach Memorial Day, let us not forget the true meaning of it. Memorial Day was set aside to honor our military, both the living and the dead, who served with pride and honor in all our wars and conflicts. Dr. John McCrae, who wrote the…
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The many faces of progress T hree stories in this week’s paper are clear indicators of how development over the past 10 years, and before, has had a major impact on local roadways. Anyone who has not been on Laurel Avenue — part of the border between Middletown and Holmdel — lately won’t recognize it…
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Middletown kids deserve a good school system We are writing you to express our disappointment and frustration in the recent defeat of the 2000-2001 budget for the Middletown School system. As parents of two children ages 6 and 4, we have a vested interest in the future of this school system. We feel it is…
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The budget must be approved for our kids’ sake I am very disappointed that the Middletown school budget was not approved by voters in the recent election. Superintendent Dr. Jack DeTalvo visited most, if not all, of the schools in the district to go over the budget so voters could make an informed decision. Anyone…
