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Paul Joseph Tamulevicus
Mr. Tamulevicus, 72, of Manalapan, died Dec. 17, 2012, at The Manor, Freehold Township. He was a graduate of Freehold High School, Freehold Borough, and a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard. Prior to retiring, Mr. Tamulevicus was employed as an upholsterer for G’s Auto Tops, Freehold. He was also a self-employed upholsterer for many…
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Mark D. Carrell
Mr. Carrell, 43, of Buena Vista, Va., died Dec. 19, 2012 at LewisGale Medical Center, Salem, Va. He was a 1987 graduate of Freehold Township High School, where he played baseball. Mr. Carrell was employed as an accounts receivable representative in the call center at Liberty Medical in Virginia. Prior to that, he worked for…
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Should government pay?
IN THE NEWS MARK ROSMAN My inbox was overflowing on Jan. 2 with emails from outraged politicians. The source of their displeasure was the failure of the U.S. House of Representatives to vote on the Sandy disaster relief bill on Jan. 1. The U.S. Senate had earlier passed a $60.4 billion emergency supplemental funding bill…
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Photo
In a photo taken on Dec. 30, 2012, a northern harrier, also known as a marsh hawk, flies off from the East Brunswick Dog Park, Dunhams Corner Road, East Brunswick. The northern harrier had just been hunting for small mammals, flying only a few feet off the ground above a field. The species is considered…
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Banning guns in America is not the answer
This is in response to the recent Your Turn guest column by Dennis Levinson (“Time to Ban All Guns,” Dec. 26, 2012). First of all, statistics, 2009, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/ deaths.htm: Number of deaths for leading causes of death: heart disease: 599,413; cancer: 567,628; chronic lower respiratory diseases: 137,353; stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,842; accidents (unintentional injuries): 118,021;…
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Placing armed officers in America’s schools will not solve problems
Placing armed police officers or security guards in schools is foolhardy and leaves a board of education and town open to huge lawsuits if a shooting does occur. Also, police officers give students and parents a false sense of security. No one could have prevented or stopped the Newtown, Conn., incident, except for Nancy Lanza,…
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Do not be so quick to discard the Second Amendment
Whenever an unfortunate and tragic clustering of deaths caused by people using guns occurs, there is always the predictable, semi-rational, kneejerk, do-something response calling for a ban of guns, as criminal-coddler Dennis Levinson did in his Dec. 26 guest column, “Time to Ban All Guns.” I wonder how Mr. Levinson’s attitude would change if he…
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Anna M. Palush Berardi
Mrs. Berardi, 72, of Freehold Township, formerly of Metuchen, died Dec. 9, 2012, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. In her early career, she was a clerk for Western Union in Perth Amboy. Later on, she was employed as a crossing guard for 11 years with the Metuchen Police Department, retiring in 1995. Mrs. Berardi…
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Ida Z. “Eda” Urbelis
Mrs. Urbelis, 90, of Freehold, died Dec. 20, 2012, at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. She was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, N.Y., and resided in Freehold for nearly 80 years. Prior to retiring at the age of 86, she was employed as a hair stylist at Macy’s hair salon in Eatontown. She was…
