Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Clients of food pantry were grateful for holiday meals

    On behalf of the board of trustees, volunteers and clients of Freehold Area Open Door, I would like to thank the community for their generous outpouring of donations for Thanksgiving. On Nov. 21, many of our regular volunteers were joined by two dozen students to pack 344 dinners which fed 1,200 individuals. These were distributed…

  • Biotechnology high school anticipates 2005 start-up

    First group of county residents is seeking admission to program BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff The Monmouth County Vocational School District’s new Biotechnology High School is taking shape off Kozloski Road, Freehold Township. Administrators are planning to admit a freshman class of about 60 students in September. Construction…

  • Obituaries

    Carolyn M. Sherman Mrs. Sherman, 60, of Keansburg, died Dec. 11 at home. Born in Newark, she resided there prior to moving to Keansburg in 1972. She was a homemaker and a communicant of St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church, Keansburg. She enjoyed time with her family and bingo. She was predeceased by her husband, Joseph…

  • Government responds to town’s united effort

    While the wheels of government do not always turn quickly, they do, on occasion, turn. That is the lesson Marlboro High School students and others can learn this week with the announcement that the township has received a $50,000 state grant. The money will be used to construct a sidewalk from the high school on…

  • Obituaries

    John W. Mogilski Mr. Mogilski, 82, of Brick, died Nov. 17 at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. Born in Jersey City, he had resided in Freehold Township for 25 years before moving to Brick 11 years ago. Prior to retiring in 1979, he was employed for more than 30 years as a first-class machinist for…

  • Screening teens could help prevent a tragedy

    I write in response to your article, “Family Copes with Loss, Urges Teens to Reach Out”, regarding the tragic loss of an Allentown High School student (News Transcript, Nov. 23, 2004). It is always shocking when a young person cuts his or her own life short, but, unfortunately, it occurs more often than most people…

  • Freehold resident asks what immigrants are doing for community

    This is a response to a letter to the editor headlined “Treat Immigrants to America as People, Not Things,” written by the Coalition for the Empowerment of Latinos and the Working Poor and published in the Dec. 1 issue of the News Transcript. The only statement in subject [letter] from your publication is that our…

  • Complaint: Signs, signs, everywhere signs

    For years real estate offices have been putting up “For Sale” signs on properties they have listed. On the day of an open house the agent would put up directional signs pointing to the open house and immediately remove them after the showing was over. This behavior over the years has been readily accepted by…