Category: News Transcript Opinion
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Writer forgot one detail — his position in local politics
I n response to a letter to the editor, “Resident Takes Issue With Council’s Action on 7-Eleven” (News Transcript, July 13) excoriating Freehold Borough Council President George Schnurr, the author conveniently neglected to inform readers that he serves as Freehold Borough’s Republican Party Club President. This is yet another example of the same old, same…
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Sabrina Ann Siegmund
Sabrina Ann Siegmund, 17, of Freehold, died July 6, 2011. She was born in Staten Island, N.Y., and had lived in Matawan before moving to Freehold two years ago. Sabrina was a 2011 graduate of Howell High School. She was predeceased by her grandparents Marie and Raymond Sigmund and William Morgan. Surviving are her mother…
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Some sports idols are worthy of adulation
GREG BEAN My friends would agree that I’m not what you’d call a sports nut, but I’ve become a serious fan of certain sports figures over the years, anyway. Some of my idol worship has clearly been misplaced. I idolized Mickey Mantle while listening to Yankees games late at night on my crystal radio with…
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Fair, objective property tax system needed in NJ
YOUR TURN CURTIS STOLLEN While much has been said regarding the need to overhaul New Jersey’s property tax, the discussion has centered around the over-reliance of property taxes for funding our schools. It seems that it is necessary to expand that conversation to involve the entire concept of assessing property taxes on a valuation basis.…
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Edward (Eddie) C. Jones
Mr. Jones 82, of Hamilton, died July 16, 2011, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Hamilton. He served his country during the KoreanWar. Prior to retiring, he was store manager and warehouse supervisor for Acme Supermarkets. After retirement, he worked in maintenance for the Monmouth County Park System, Lincroft, for 15 years and volunteered at…
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No words to describe pain of loss
GIRL TALK CLARE MARIE CELANO Life, as we know it, can change in a minute. Someone gets married, someone gets divorced. Someone says you’re hired, someone says you’re fired. Someone is born, someone dies. And these events change you. The passing of my 86-year-old mother on June 18, two months before her 87th birthday, has…
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William Genung
Mr. Genung, 98, of Freehold, formerly of East Brunswick, died June 28, 2011, at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was employed as a cost accountant for Triangle Conduit & Cable Company, New Brunswick. In his retirement, Mr. Genung was the oldest employee ever…
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Filippina Fruncillo
Mrs. Fruncillo, 60, of Howell, died June 29, 2011, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was born in Serino, Italy, and came to the U.S. in 1972. She was a homemaker. Mrs. Fruncillo was predeceased by a brother, Pasquale; and a sister, Gilda. Surviving are her husband, Eugenio; a daughter, Antonette Daddio…
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Eugene James Morris
Mr. Morris, 83, of East Brunswick, died June 30, 2011, at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to retiring, he was an autoworker for Ford Motor Co., Edison. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, serving as an airman, 1946-1949. Mr. Morris was predeceased by a brother, Edward Morris; and a sister, Lorraine…
