Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Newspaper promotes tolerance, but letters do not

    Your editorials have preached the American credo of tolerance for our differences, a message that cannot be repeated too often. We have come a long way since the 19th century when we read and heard "Send the Irish back to Ireland," "Beware the yellow peril" or "Send African Americans back to Africa." According to letters…

  • Editor missed mark with criticism on congressman

    Executive Editor Greg Bean’s recent column denigrating Congressman Rush Holt’s proposal to restrict activity at Yellowstone National Park is off base, at least as to his right to raise the issue even though he is a representative from New Jersey. In case Mr. Bean misses the point, Mr. Holt is a member of the U.S.…

  • Guest Column

    Joseph J.J. VisciBoard must examineoptions to redistricting Joseph J.J. Visci Board must examine options to redistricting Earlier this year the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education and Superin-tendent of Schools James Wasser began discussing a high school redistricting plan. They were intending to send a small number of children from towns in which…

  • Public access denied

    Just one day after a new public access law took effect, Gov. James McGreevey placed it under fire. McGreevey signed Executive Order 21 which, according to some, may significantly reduce the availability of information that had just come into the light of public scrutiny. The governor said he signed the executive order in order to…

  • Letters

    Freehold Twp. residents seeking support for opposition to cell tower Freehold Twp. residents seeking support for opposition to cell tower On July 18 at 7:30 p.m. the Planning Board of Free-hold Township will meet to continue consideration of an application to build a 142-foot-tall cellular telephone "monopole" on a piece of property which directly abuts…

  • 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. LOUIS A. JUENGST, 90, of Manalapan died July 1 at Bartley Manor Healthcare Center, Jackson. Born in Croton Falls, N.Y., he had lived in Dagsboro, Del., before…

  • Writer defends column promoting travel to Israel

    We have been presented with two views on the safety and necessity of people to travel to Israel in the current climate. In his Your Turn column, former Marlboro Mayor Saul Hornik presented a very strong case for travel to Israel, and Mark Grill of Marlboro, in his letter to the editor, presented an equally…

  • Good case has been made to ban snowmobiles from park

    Yellowstone National Park belongs to all Americans and not to just those who happen to live in the states where it is located — Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. A three-year public comment period on winter snowmobile use in Yellowstone resulted in a very large majority favoring the gradual phaseout of the snowmobiles over a period…

  • Freeholders get Tennent Road improvements moving

    As a longtime resident of Mon-mouth County and a six-year resident of Manalapan, I would like to thank the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders for taking the initiative and arranging the improvements to Tennent Road and the various nightmare intersections we all know and despise. Many of us have tried to work with our Manalapan…