Category: News Transcript Opinion
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Property tax question requires action on a wide scale
Is Marlboro an island by itself? Your guest columnist (Your Turn, News Transcript, Aug. 15) would have us think so. We don’t live in a bubble. Almost everything she said about Marlboro could be said about Freehold or Manalapan or a number of other communities all over New Jersey. No one likes rising taxes. Those…
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For the record
The correct address for donations to be sent to the Marlboro-based organization Friends of Sal is P.O. Box 478, Morganville 07751. The goal of the organization is to help children in New Jersey who have terminal cancer and who are in need of help paying medical and travel expenses.
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Guest Column Michele S. Byers Victory an example of solidarity, cooperation
Guest Column Michele S. Byers Victory an example of solidarity, cooperation People often call the New Jersey Conservation Foundation (NJCF) with a basic question: "How can we save open space that’s slated for development in our community?" This question doesn’t always have a simple answer. The story of the preservation of the Chase tract in…
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Guest Column Coral L. Silsbe Howell farmers can use support from community
Guest Column Coral L. Silsbe Howell farmers can use support from community As a Manalapan resident and horse farm owner, I decided to attend an Aug. 13 Howell Township Council meeting regarding downzoning in Howell. This meeting was actually a second reading of the ordinance which could be adopted Sept. 10. The ordinance will rezone…
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Property taxes an issue for Trenton pols to face
Property taxes an issue for Trenton pols to face The taxman was not kind to the residents of Marlboro this summer. Property owners who opened their tax bills for 2001-02 were shocked to see they will be paying hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars more over the coming year. In letters to the editor, guest…
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Police, town officials must address serious charges
Police, town officials must address serious charges In the wake of serious allegations against the Freehold Borough Police Department, a thorough investigation is called for and should proceed with all due speed. The allegations being made against the police by a borough resident are especially troubling, given the fact that the department has no history…
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For the record
Due to a production error, the following paragraph was not published in its entirety in a story about the KaBOOM! playground building project in the Aug. 8 News Transcript. The paragraph should have said: Max Tillis, who will enter the fourth grade at the Freehold Learning Center elementary school in September, produced the winning drawing…
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Resident offers suggestion for preserving old building
I’ve read with interest recent articles in the News Transcript concerning historic buildings in this area, particularly Freehold Borough. The July 18 issue ran a feature on a private home built in 1898, designed by Warren Hartshorne Conover, a local architect of some note, and now placed on the market by his granddaughter. The same…
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Guest Column Glenda Grill Rise in tax bill should signal a wakeup call
Guest Column Glenda Grill Rise in tax bill should signal a wakeup call The phrase that sums up the extensive growth Marl-boro has seen in the past two decades is "Build it and they will come." What is going on? Who is assuming the responsibility for the growth in this township? How is this growth…
