Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Community rallies with support for Open Door

    Community rallies with support for Open Door 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. 24, many of our regular volunteers were joined by two dozen students to pack more than…

  • Samaritan offers thanks

    In this season of Thanksgiving, the Samaritan Center would like to thank all the wonderful people who donated food, gift baskets, turkeys and baked goods, and made financial contributions to our ministry. We could not help those in need without all of you. Thank you, and God bless. Carol Puorro Director Samaritan Center Englishtown

  • Aid was provided during a very trying time at Covered Bridge

    It was not a terrorist attack — it was an attack by an intruder (a squirrel), and justice prevailed; he was electrocuted. I’m talking about the day after Thanksgiving, when the residents of Covered Bridge were without electricity. Imagine if we had had no electricity on Thanksgiving Day. Well, at least we have something to…

  • JCP&L executives follow through with response to power outage

    On Dec. 11, the News Tran-script was kind enough to publish my letter of complaint under the headline, "Cov-ered Bridge Resident Unhappy with JCP&L Response," which concerned their electric power outage the day after Thanksgiving that left no lights, heat or hot water for the elderly and sick residents of Covered Bridge I. Evidently, the…

  • Time not on the side of landmark home

    Time not on the side of landmark home There is a lesson to be learned in a decision that is facing the Manalapan Township Committee and it centers on the future of the Dreyer house that sits in the middle of the Manalapan Recreation Center, Route 522. The lesson is: Don’t make promises you’re not…

  • Money, project size appear to carry the day in liquor license vote

    It is appalling to learn about the way the Freehold Town-ship Committee decides how liquor licenses are awarded in this town. Since the most important segment of the story appeared at the end of the second page of a Dec. 11 News Transcript article, I would bet most readers missed the best parts. Freehold Township…

  • Town abandons responsibility to provide needed affordable housing

    I was saddened to read in the News Transcript that we of Manalapan have shirked our responsibilities toward the most vulnerable groups in our society — the poor, the widows, the orphans and the total strangers. The headlines heralded the news that Manalapan will be relieved of providing 41 units of affordable or low-income housing…

  • Resident wary of town council’s redevelopment plans

    The Marlboro Township Council has rushed to seek some aid and comfort from a Manhattan consulting firm for their redevelopment plan for the purchase of the Marlboro hospital tract. It obviously suggests a need for an economically feasible evaluation and some doses of reality. The council session just prior to Thanksgiving Day could eventually lead…

  • Obituaries

    Greater Media Newspapers prints obituaries as a free community service, at no charge to the families of the deceased or to the funeral homes that provide the information. VERA McGROGAN, 76, of Union Beach died Dec. 10 at Deborah Heart and Lung Hospital, Browns Mills. Born in Hoboken, she resided there until moving to Union…