Category: News Transcript Opinion
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Newspapers have a new policy on endorsements
Newspapers have a new policy on endorsements For decades, Greater Media Newspapers, which publishes the News Transcript, have made it a policy to endorse political candidates before local elections in the belief that readers looked for our opinion as part of their decision making process. Granted, there were drawbacks to those endorsements because they often…
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Community responds with support for church’s dinner
Old Tennent Church’s 2000 Harvest Home Dinner was an incredible success. We surpassed our expectations by serving more than 550 turkey dinners in just four hours. Old Tennent has had a Harvest Home Dinner for more than 100 years, when it was part of what was then the farming community of this area. Back then,…
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Facts don’t support report to police Guest Column Ray Kosman
Facts don’t support report to police Guest Column Ray Kosman Despite many recent court cases protecting the civil rights of individuals and preventing police harassment and profiling based on stereotypical attitudes about skin color, ethnic background, dress, "suspicious" actions, etc., people like Sue Kozel still cling to the old ways of judging a book by…
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‘Team Marlboro’ comes through for cancer research
On Oct. 15 the employees, volunteers, seniors, Mayor and Mrs. Matthew Scannapieco, and Township Council members Mary Singer and Dr. Paul Kovalski Jr., as well as other residents of Marlboro, participated in the "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk" at Point Pleasant Beach to raise a substantial amount of money for cancer research. On behalf…
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Training sessions will focus on special education laws, inclusion
Parents of children who receive special education services often experience resistance when attempting to include their children in their home school and in general education classes, in spite of the clear preference in the law for placement in the least restrictive environment. BEAM (Becoming Educated And Motivated about special education) of Monmouth and Burlington has…
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PBA says local officials, manager offer support to cops
On behalf of the Howell PBA Local 228, I would like to address the front-page article by Kathy Baratta published in the News Transcript Oct. 18. In the article, Howell Police Chief Ronald T. Carter makes the inference that the police department’s operations are being affected by the mayor, Township Council and township manager in…
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Tom Wilkens earned gold from one special Port Monmouth child
On Oct. 21 my family had gone to King of Kings Church for a concert which my two young daughters were in. We arrived about 2 p.m. for practice. The show was to start around 3 p.m., so my daughter Heather and I went outside to watch the parade we did not want to miss.…
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Don’t complain about suburban sprawl; vote for open space
With regard to prudent investing in real estate, a wise man once said, "Land, they ain’t making any more of it." An addendum for modern times might be "and they ain’t giving it away." Residents who daily witness the growth of Monmouth County continue to lament to newspapers, neighbors and their town officials about the…
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Matawan has never been more financially accountable
In the Oct. 25 Independent, Democratic Borough Council candidate Steven Barranca states that nobody in town has a clue as to what is being spent, and that the town’s financial accountability remains unresolved. This is not true. This year we have created various budget versus actual reports which are generated regularly and distributed to the…
