Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Dr. Clarence Gould Thornton

    Dr. Thornton, 87, of Freehold Township, died Oct. 11, 2012. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Asia Pacific area campaign and was stationed in Shanghai at the conclusion of the war. Upon his return to the United States, he earned a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, and a Master…

  • Henrietta VanArsdale

    Mrs. VanArsdale, 82, of Bayville, died Oct. 11, 2012, at Van Dyke Hospice and Palliative Care Center, Toms River. She was born in the Squankum section of Howell, raised in Freehold, and had lived in Lakewood, Bedford, Va., and Mount Pilot, N.C., before moving to Bayville in 2009. She was a homemaker and retired as…

  • Sophie Pulos

    Mrs. Pulos, 89, of Marlboro, died Oct. 11, 2012, at Care One at Holmdel, She was born in Plains, Pa., and was a graduate of Freehold High School, class of 1942. Prior to retiring, Mrs. Pulos was employed as a bookkeeper for the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office, Freehold, for 30 years. She was predeceased by…

  • Sharon Lynn Schreiber

    Ms. Schreiber, 56, of Howell, died Oct. 14, 2012, at home. She was a graduate of Freehold High School and was currently attending the Easter Seals Day Program in Oakhurst. She had bowled with the Guys and Dolls bowling team and earned medals for bowling at the state Special Olympics. Surviving are her mother, Ruth…

  • on campus 

    Monmouth University, West Long Branch, has awarded graduate degrees to the following local students: From Colts Neck, Danielle Cristofano, Hallie Gardner, Aaron Lay, Ryan Nix, Aaron Lay; From Englishtown, Jacob Brichkin; From Freehold, Myroslav Alfeldi, Alayna Berg, Jessica Cronin, Jessica Fisher, Eric Hoblitzell, Eileen Howard, Kevin McInerney, Christopher Mell, Felicia Norott, Danielle Parella, Philip Vogt,…

  • News Transcript was correct to publish letter

    I have to strongly disagree with the letter to the editor that Michael Goldstein wrote (Oct. 17) in regard to the News Transcript being complicit in printing a letter to the editor from Raymond Kostanty several weeks earlier. Mr. Kostanty has a legal right to his opinion, whether you or I agree with it or…

  • Reader says letter had no place in newspaper

    For several weeks now, I have been reading responses to Raymond Kostanty’s recent letter to the editor of the News Transcript that cited Jews as “clannish.” This was as hateful as the letter he wrote last February when he labeled gays as interested in marriage purely for supposed financial benefits. While I uphold Mr. Kostanty’s…

  • Moves cited by letter writer are typical of FRHSD school board

    Dave Sherman’s letter to the editor (News Transcript, Oct. 10, “Salary Increases in FRHSD are Shocking”) regarding the appalling salary increases Freehold Regional High School District administrators are attempting to justify by claiming “it was in the budget,” is no longer shocking to me; it’s typical. As a long-time attendee at FRHSD Board of Education…