Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • For the record

    According to Hovbilt Inc. Vice President Art Havighorst, residue in a detention basin at the new Adelphia Greens townhouse development on Route 524, Howell, is from fertilizers on the former farm acreage. A story in the News Transcript stated that the residue was from pesticides. Manalapan Mayor Mary Cozzolino said John Lewis, the township’s director…

  • Take steps to ensure safety of your pet if he is lost

    Being a board member for an animal rescue group known as People for Animals and being involved in animal rescue work for years, I am writing this letter on behalf of our pets. I had a very sad experience recently that made me realize the public is not well informed on how to find their…

  • Recreation commission does a great job with concerts

    I would like to thank the Marlboro Township Recreation and Parks Commission for their professional work in putting together many activities throughout the year. The first of three summer concerts in the park was July 8, "Parrottville — A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett." Everyone was celebrating with the music of one of America’s most famous…

  • Writer asks candidates for a ‘sane season’ this fall

    It must be the silly season; Al Rosenthal has surfaced again with his letter to the News Transcript on July 3. Once again Marlboro residents must be subjected to his vicious attacks on anybody who is not a Republican seeking office. Why is it that Mr. Rosenthal never tells readers that he was the manager…

  • Taking of land is familiar feeling to resident

    My mother taught me, "What goes around, comes around." When I asked a neighbor (who rented my farm on Millhurst Road, Manal-apan) to help me fight the Manal-apan-Englishtown Regional School District Board of Educa-tion and come to the meetings, he said he could not. At an agriculture meeting, when a tie had to be broken,…

  • Dreyer home in Manalapan is worthy of local restoration efforts

    No matter what town you go into in New Jersey, there will always be a building that holds hundreds of years of stories within its walls. They stand in all their grace with little bits of history attached to them. There stands such a house in Manalapan. Once a beautiful home enveloped in farmland and…

  • Veterans organization objects to hiring of memorial builder

    The Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America have announced their opposition to the selection of Tompkins Builders as one of the contractors on the national World War II memorial to be built on the mall in Washington, D.C. The announcement was made by Jewish War Veterans National Commander Ron Ziegler. "We recognize…

  • Volunteers help makes Knights’ breakfasts successful

    Once again we had a banner year with our monthly breakfasts. The reason for that is the staff of volunteers who make it all possible. In the last three years we served more than 3,406 adults and 670 children. Thanks to our brothers and their families, and also the people of Freehold Borough and Freehold…

  • Use of ‘downed animals’ in human food chain questioned

    In this age of mad cow disease and hoof and mouth disease, we have come to learn that practices in food animal production can result not only in cruel and inhumane treatment toward the animals, but also an increased risk of spreading disease to humans by allowing diseased animals in the human food chain. Congress…