Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Resident upset with traffic near neighborhood

    I live in Forest Hills Estates off Union Hill Road, between Pension Road and Route 527 in Manalapan. This also places me between Raceway Park and the Englishtown auction. I moved here to be in a less-congested area, but I have complaints against the township. First, we’re prisoners in our homes on the weekends, between…

  • Marlboro school board hires principal, administrator

    Staff Writer By theresa a. boschen MARLBORO — The Board of Education has hired a new director of special services and a principal for the district’s early childhood learning center which is expected to open in the fall. Robert Klein, whose most recent position was a child study team and special education supervisor in Bergen…

  • Explorers have proved of value to police force

    Explorers have proved of value to police force Over the past two decades the Marlboro Police Explorers program has proved its value to the community. This winter the Explorers program will celebrate its 20th anniversary of service in the township. The program has allowed young men and women to work alongside Marlboro’s professional law enforcement…

  • Milford Brook School students appreciate board’s support

    We, the Odyssey of the Mind team members from the Milford Brook School, Manalapan, would like to thank the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District Board of Education for sending us to the World Finals at the University of Maryland. It was so much fun meeting students from 16 different countries and many states. It was an…

  • Board of trustees deserves credit for decision

    How does a governing body, a board of trustees, answer a misinformed homeowner, Gert Feldman, of an article written by her and printed in the News Transcript of June 13 (letters to the editor)? Sen. John Bennett had no more to do with the board of trustees’ decision (regarding transportation of residents within the adult…

  • Councilman off the mark with attack on Republicans

    Marlboro Councilman Barry Denkensohn obviously missed the point of Lewis Wildman’s letter in the June 13 News Transcript completely. The only politics involved were the councilman’s comments at the DARE graduation. It is obvious from Councilman Denkensohn’s June 20 letter to the News Transcript that even he is unable to defend his behavior at that…

  • Residents seek town’s help on tower objection

    Residents seek town’s help on tower objection A resident on the east side of Freehold Township is marshaling residents in an effort to object to a plan put forth by Sprint to build a communications tower in a buffer zone between Route 18 and area homes. According to resident Bill Cargiulo, state Department of Transportation…

  • Children’s behavior will be a reflection of their parents My husband, my 6-year-old daughter and I attended the school orientation at Clark Mills School in Manalapan on the evening of June 5.

    Children’s behavior will be a reflection of their parents My husband, my 6-year-old daughter and I attended the school orientation at Clark Mills School in Manalapan on the evening of June 5. After the decision to redraw the township school district lines, an orientation was offered by the school to welcome new students and the…