Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • More discussion needed on affordable housing

    It’s been several months since Gov. Jim McGreevey turned up the volume in the debate over the future of development in New Jersey. However, the important issue of affordable housing has been lost among the deliberations about the market, economic, legal and constitutional implications of growth and the accompanying public policy. This must change because…

  • Coach appreciates support for baseball team

    The parents and players of the Freehold Borough High School Diamond Club would like to thank all those who donated money and time toward our 2003 baseball program. Thanks again. Glenn Fredricks varsity baseball coach Freehold Borough High School

  • It’s time for Marlboro to drop action against high school district

    As a longtime resident of Marlboro, I am embarrassed to read that our township officials are still pursuing their objections to the sorely needed redistricting plan for the Freehold Regional High School District student population. Marlboro students are not the only ones involved; students from the other sending districts would also be relocated. You don’t…

  • Manalapan open space decisions made with benefits to town in mind

    I agree with (the News Tran-script) comments that "the purchase of undeveloped property for the purpose of preserving it from development is a laudable goal." By attempting to purchase this tract of land from the Gentile family, Mayor (Drew) Shapiro and the Township Committee are seeking to achieve this goal. There would ultimately be several…

  • Veterans appreciate support during sale of poppies

    The Jewish War Veterans Manalapan-Marlboro Post 972 wishes to gratefully thank the Marlboro ShopRite and the Marlboro Acme for their true American patriotism in permitting the sale of poppies to help our military veterans post to give needed aid to New Jersey’s legless and other wounded veterans confined as patients in our state’s Veterans Administration…

  • Public has right to know who paid for election fliers

    The theme of the Board of Trustees of Covered Bridge I is "The Right to Know." In the June 11 issue of the News Transcript, a letter by Martin L. Katz, a homeowner in Covered Bridge I, contested the mailing of private election fliers to homeowners by a local political organization. He wrote, "The purpose…

  • Resident doesn’t like proposal for project in Manalapan

    This project (proposed offices at the corner of Gordons Corner Road and Main Street, Englishtown) will have many negative impacts upon our quality of life. It will create additional traffic conditions [and] more congestion with increased density. The destruction of the wooded area, the loss of our green acres and the construction of the buildings…

  • Parents upset with way MHS graduation was handled

    We are writing this letter to inform you of the chaotic and disorganized Manalapan High School graduation of 2003. Our only daughter’s graduation turned out to be nothing like we had ever expected. The graduation was held in the gymnasium (due to earlier showers) which evidently could not accommodate the amount of people it was…