Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Reformed Democrats welcome residents’ participation

    I firmly believe that Marlboro residents may now take an optimistic view of the political landscape evolving in 2005. Herbert Resnick, a former Democratic Marlboro councilman who served under the existing municipal leadership of what has been termed the “old guard,” wrote that the Reformed Demo-cratic Club of Marlboro seeks to save Marlboro from a…

  • Child’s move to early learning center concerns parent

    I am writing as a parent of a “special needs” child who has been moved to the Early Learning Center (ELC) in Freehold Township (the old West Freehold School that has been converted into a school for the township’s special needs classes). All the special needs classes from the Catena and Applegate schools have been…

  • Editor of newsletter tried to accommodate request

    I am responding to a letter to the editor that was printed in the Dec. 22 issue of the News Transcript from Michael Ponenti. I am the editor of the Marlboro Greens newsletter, The Voice. Let me clearly state the facts. Our newsletter closes articles for the printer on the 10th of every month —…

  • Agency offers lesson plans on gambling awareness

    The Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey Inc. received a major setback when New Jersey Depart-ment of Education Commissioner William Librera pulled a 2004 revision to the Core Curriculum Content Standards, which would have required education in health and physical education classes to include addressing gambling in school curriculum. The council has participated in…

  • Mayor listened and then helped to solve a problem

    Several months ago we spent about an hour conferring with Mayor Robert Kleinberg. We had come to ask for his help in resolving an issue that had become a problem for many senior citizens of Marlboro. Many of the senior citizens programs that had been held at the Marlboro Recreation Community Center on Wyncrest Road…

  • Issue remains immigrants who come to U.S. illegally

    Kudos to Freehold Borough Mayor Mike Wilson and the Borough Council for rebutting the misinformation being disseminated by the Coalition of the Empowerment of Latinos and the Working Poor. I’ve lived in Freehold for the past 11 years after having moved from New York City and have found a town with a wonderful feeling of…

  • Illegal immigration is a high stakes issue for America

    Politicians, religious leaders, etc., may preach peace in America, but there is no peace. The cultural war has actually begun. That war is being fueled by the sophistry being preached by certain civil and church leaders. Diversity is the catch phrase, that dirty little word you hear in church every week. Diversity is defined as…

  • Residents rankled by change in engineering firm

    Today I sat and watched as our newly sworn in mayor, William I. Scherer, and our newly sworn in committeemen Andrew Lucas and Joseph Locricchio (our new deputy mayor), voted to end a 32-year-old relationship between Manalapan and CME Engineering. In a matter of moments, with a swift motion, these three men voted to replace…