Category: News Transcript Opinion
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Board must do a better job of spending taxpayer dollars
Marlboro is still ignoring the needs of its residents. When will the Marlboro Board of Education and its school board defend the rights of the children and the residents of Marlboro? Year after year, they continue spending taxpayer dollars in a way that can only be viewed as incompetent and uncaring. After continuously adding on…
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Questions still surround Manalapan Chase homes
Questions still surround Manalapan Chase homes On June 20 there was a story in the News Transcript, "Township Committee Hears List of Woes About Manalapan Chase," regarding a Manalapan meeting that was held on June 11 to hear about structural problems at the Manalapan Chase development. The state Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has been…
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Gray family appreciates support during trying time
Gray family appreciates support during trying time Words alone cannot express our sincerest thanks for the outpouring of community support our family has received during our period of continued grief over the loss of our beloved son, Christopher. We will never be able to adequately repay the acts of kindness and expressions of sympathy given…
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United States immigration policy lacking
Our government’s immigration policy, both legal and illegal, is mind-boggling. There are those, myself included, who warned that if this insanity continued, America would become a Third World nation. After the World Trade Center bombing, the area was described as "looking like Beirut." If we continue to allow people to enter this country strictly for…
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FARM members are seeking public’s support against down-zoning
I have owned, operated and lived on a standardbred horse farm in Manalapan since 1972 and have been a lifelong resident of this area as I was born and raised in Freehold Borough. During the last 50-plus years I have seen the Monmouth County landscape drastically change from one filled with rural farms to one…
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Composer left the United States a great gift with ‘God Bless America’
We have all had the pleasure of hearing, since Sept. 11, the great patriotic song "God Bless America." Mention is made that it was a lead song of Kate Smith. No mention, however, has been made of the great composer who wrote it in 1917 and released it in 1938. He was a Jewish immigrant…
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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. CAROL A. PLOTKIN, 62, of Manalapan died Sept. 17 at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born in New York City, she had lived in Queens, N.Y., before…
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Local official questioned on refusal to allow discussion
Why did Marlboro Township Council President Paul Kovalski prevent the discussion of a Marlboro Historic Commission ordinance at the last workshop meeting of the council? In light of Dr. Kovalski’s former membership in the historic commission and his well-known campaign to save a historic tree from being cut down, it is curious, to say the…
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Police Beat
All items in Police Beat are taken from police department records. All suspects are presumed innocent until found guilty in court. freehold borough Charges of driving while intoxicated were lodged against a Freehold Township woman following a motor vehicle accident at Park Avenue and South Street at 8:18 p.m. Sept. 20. Police said Janet Stieglitz,…
