Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Harold Gilman

    Mr. Gilman, 87, of Manalapan, died Jan. 21, 2011, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. He was born in Cracow, Poland, and moved to the U.S. in 1928. Prior to retiring, he was a chemist and laboratory director for Stuyvesant High School in the Bronx for more than 10 years. He supported most environmental and…

  • Stop harassing people who are different

    Life is something valued that we each are given a chance to take part in, to leave our mark before we pass along with time. The life we live is constructed upon diversity among others, which is simply what makes our world of various cultures and others’ ways of life so vast and unique. The…

  • Beatrice K. Perjatel

    Mrs. Perjatel, 83, of Manalapan, died Jan. 20, 2011, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Prior to retiring, she worked for Bloomingdales department store in New York. She was predeceased by her husband, Harry, in 2006. Surviving are a daughter and son-in-law, Deborah and Michael Light of Huntersville, N.C.; a son and daughter-in-law, Keith and…

  • Proposed death penalty bill creates different classes of victims

    I n the eyes of state Sen. Robert Singer, (R-Monmouth, Ocean, Burlington, Mercer) your life is not as important as that of a cop. That is the bottom line of a bill that Singer is proposing (supported by Sen. Jennifer Beck) in a typical politician’s knee-jerk reaction to the murder of a (Lakewood) cop. The…

  • Lavinia Jaynes DeLoskey

    Mrs. DeLoskey, 83, of Freehold, formerly of the Morganville section of Marlboro, died Jan. 22, 2011, at home. Surviving are her husband of 62 years, Albert DeLoskey; three sons and two daughters-in-law, Robert DeLoskey, Albert De- Loskey and Lawrie Deering, and Richard and Tamme DeLoskey; a sister, Ethel Lang; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Arrangements…

  • Joint venture is one more cure for physician shortage

    GUEST COLUMN NAYAN KOTHARI, M.D. On the verge of one of the nation’s most severe physician shortages, New Jersey is getting a new medical school. I am referring to the announcement made in November that Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick will serve as a regional medical campus for the Drexel University College of…

  • Philip F. Brennan

    Mr. Brennan, 94, of Marlboro, died Jan. 26, 2011, at home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he lived in Sayreville prior to moving to Marlboro Greens 13 years ago. He fought in the U.S. Army during World War II. Prior to retiring, Mr. Brennan was employed as a motion picture film editor for CBS Broadcasting Inc.…

  • for the record 

    Jay Respler was reappointed as chairman of the Freehold Township Historic Preservation Commission during the Township Committee’s reorganization meeting on Jan. 7. Michael Berman was reappointed as a member of the Historic Preservation Commission. Aprevious News Transcript article did not state that Respler was reappointed as chairman.

  • Dolores (Ward) Petti

    Mrs. Petti, 77, of the Morganville section of Marlboro, died Jan. 26, 2011, at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge. Born in Newark, she had resided in Edison for 30 years before moving to Morganville 17 years ago. Mrs. Petti was predeceased by her husband, Joseph M. Petti. Surviving are three children, Sharon Newell and…