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Obituaries MARIE MULVANERTON , 68, of Manalapan, died May 15 at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born in New York City, she had resided there before moving to Manalapan 35 years ago. Mrs. Mulvanerton had been retired since 1988. She was a communicant of Our Lady of Mercy R.C. Church, Englishtown. She was predeceased by…
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Letting others do the talking W e are convinced one week before the primary in Howell that the two candidates running under the Regular Republican banner – James Stanberry and Cynthia Schomaker – are candidates in name only. We believe that if they were eventually elected in November, they would be nothing more than front…
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Mom hopes march sparks action T hey were looking for "a few good moms," according to the Web site for the Million Mom March. "A few" turned out to be 750,000 and the Web site had 5 million hits in the six days preceding the march on Mother’s Day. I’m proud to have been among…
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Bid for ‘good news’ appears transparent on election eve I t’s been quite a while since we’ve seen the type of political grandstanding Howell Mayor Timothy Konopka at-tempted to pull off last week when he announced that a local business, Tokyo Therapy, would not have its operating license renewed. That the mayor chose to make…
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For the record A May 24 letter to the editor from Barbara Dixel of Howell stated that Mayor Timothy Konopka still supports a movie theater at a retail center planned for Route 9 and Locust Avenue. Dixel said that subsequent to writing the letter she learned the developer has removed the movie theater from the…
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Political dramas playing out in Garden State The forthcoming June primary elections for House and Senate candidates in New Jersey presents an abundance of "crazy-quilt political dramas" bordering on the ridiculous but certainly not the sublime. The serious question which arises is whether these intrigues will eventually overtax the questionable cerebral equipment of portions of…
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Victims’ families hurt by statute of limitations ‘Our world was shattered, our innocence and trust in the goodness in life was gone and in its wake only pain so horrible it almost killed us." These are the words of a parent of a murdered child. These words can be used to describe the way thousands…
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Councilwoman’s vote change a regrettable act Last night an act of courage and conscience was born, but regrettably was soon killed. It was about 1 a.m. and only two people were in the audience to witness this tragedy. The Marlboro Township Council was voting on amendments to change the mayor’s budget. Councilwoman JoAnn Denton spoke…
