Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • William J. Thorpe

    Mr. Thorpe, 86, of Manalapan, died Dec. 8, 2012, at CareOne at Holmdel. Born in Weehawkin, he resided in Manalapan for the past 45 years. He was a 23-year U.S. Navy veteran and served in World War II. Prior to retiring, Mr. Thorpe was employed for 12 years as a chief engineer for the Mary…

  • If you’re not part of solution, you’re part of the problem

    CODA GREG BEAN You’ll have to excuse me for a moment until this case of the black whirlies passes and my equilibrium returns to something resembling normal. I always wondered what it would feel like to fall down the rabbit hole like Alice did, and now I know. It’s not that much fun. I put…

  • Your card will be arriving any day now

    ARE WE THERE YET LORI CLINCH Here we are, deep in the throes of the holiday season. Chestnuts are still roasting on open fires and Jack Frost is nipping at our noses. A fire is warming our hearth, a pumpkin spice candle is giving the house a homey aroma, and although the tree is leaning…

  • Don’t force Sandy victims off their property

    Eight weeks in and there was still a need to provide a hot meal to approximately 150 of the 250 or so folks who showed up for clothes and dry goods in Keansburg. How do we as a state, a nation, look at ourselves in the mirror when children and seniors are still going to…

  • Costs appear to be adding up in FRHSD

    I could not agree more with Leon Sirulnick’s Dec. 12 letter to the editor regarding the Freehold Regional High School District’s superintendent of schools merit goals. Every week I read in the News Transcript about the salaries of FRHSD Superintendent of Schools Charles Sampson and his assistant superintendents and I get more and more upset.…

  • Brunilda Penna

    Mrs. Penna, 85, of Freehold Township, died Nov. 28, 2012. She was born in Puerto Rico and was employed as an interpreter in the New Jersey federal courts. Surviving are a daughter, Paula Tobey of Freehold; and two grandchildren. A funeral service was held at the Clayton & Mc- Girr Funeral Home, Freehold Township, followed…

  • Freehold councilman knocks JCP&L while brush still lines local streets

    I n the Dec. 19 issue of the News Transcript, I read that during a Borough Council meeting in Freehold Borough, Councilman Jaye Sims heard, from a resident, an anecdote told by an out-of-state contractor about “antiquated equipment” (owned by Jersey Central Power & Light). Councilman Sims then said that a JCP&L application for a…

  • John P. Ciafone

    Mr. Ciafone, 68, of Freehold, formerly of Queens, N.Y., died Nov. 29, 2012, at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge. He was a supervisor in logistics and supply at Fort Monmouth, Eatontown. Prior to that, he was employed as a supervisor with the New York Department of Social Services. He was a talented and award-winning…