Category: News Transcript Opinion
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Republican candidates offer no plan for Manalapan
In the latest sign of a campaign marked by turmoil and dissension, the Manalapan Republican Party has announced that Shane Freedman has abandoned Joe Locricchio in his attempt to join the Township Committee. Perhaps Mr. Freedman had the good sense to flee a campaign long on mud-slinging but short on new ideas. The Republicans have…
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Marlboro has planted bad seed with housing plan
Our new mayor, Dr. Robert Klein-berg, has failed Marlboro residents with his hastily brought proposal to resolve affordable housing mandates. Here we are at the 11th hour and now our mayor shoves a hastily drawn-up affordable housing proposal down our throats a week before a state Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) deadline and with very…
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Freehold Borough being sacrificed for county’s needs
As residents of Freehold Borough, we are very concerned that the many so-called "immigrant rights" groups in town are setting their sites on our municipality’s right to enforce its own housing codes. This should concern every taxpaying resident in the borough, with the exception of "blockbusting" area Realtors and their slum landlord clients. It is…
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Record shows that Gov. James McGreevey is a success
Record shows that Gov. James McGreevey is a success In reading letters to the editor, one would think that Gov. McGreevey was not doing a good job. The anguished cries about borrowing money to help balance the budget, the investigation of McGreevey’s fund-raiser by U.S. Attorney Chris Christie. Where were these anguished cries when Gov.…
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Obituaries
Obituaries George "Sunny" Kavchak Jr. Mr. Kavchak, 64, of Enosburg, Vt., formerly of Monmouth and Ocean counties, died June 18 at home. Born and raised in Englishtown, he was a longtime resident of Freehold and had lived in Lakewood for 10 years before moving to Vermont to be a gentleman farmer. Prior to retiring in…
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Obituaries
Lynda Massey Obituaries Lynda Massey Mrs. Massey, 92, of Hazlet died July 25 at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., she resided in Keyport prior to moving to Hazlet in 1947. She and her husband were owner/operators of Rollo’s Charcoal Grill, Keyport, from 1949-87. She was a communicant of St. Joseph’s Roman…
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Clinic to serve residents in need
Clinic to serve residents in need Clinic to serve residents in need Without any opposition from the public or the zoning board, a family health center has been approved in Freehold Borough. The Paul M. McGuire Family Health Center will be housed in a trailer to be placed on the property of the Second Baptist…
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Council candidate says task force issue merits real answers
The reaction of the mayor and Borough Council to questions about why they did nothing to stop the shutdown of the Freehold Joint Drug Task Force (News Transcript, July 28) is a clear example of why Free-hold needs a new voice on the council. I would like to again try to make a few important…
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Seniors deserve better from AARP leaders
The wizard in "The Wizard of Oz" was a medicine show huckster, going from village to village peddling snake oil and other "magic elixirs." He was, however, "small potatoes" in comparison with Bill Novelli, chief executive at AARP. After having helped to support and foist the widely condemned Medicare Prescription Drug Law — whose estimated…
