Category: News Transcript Opinion
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Natolia “Tolie” Moreau Brown
Mrs. Brown, 88, a longtime Monmouth County resident and retired editor of The Freehold Transcript, died Aug. 15, 2010, at Atria Stratford, Stratford, Conn. She was a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mrs. Brown began her career at The Transcript, the county seat weekly newspaper founded in 1888 by her…
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Arthur R. Valentine
Mr. Valentine, 84, of Freehold Township, previously of Rolling Meadows, Ill., died Aug. 9, 2010, at the CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. Mr. Valentine worked as a gas appliance serviceman for Peoples Energy Co., Chicago, for many years. He was predeceased by his wife, Shirley;…
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Helen C. Evans
Mrs. Evans, 91, of Freehold Township, died Aug. 9, 2010, at home. She was born in Freehold and was a lifelong resident. Mrs. Evans was a former real estate agent and a childcare provider for children in her neighborhood. She was a communicant of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, Freehold. Mrs. Evans was predeceased…
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First lady Michelle Obama should have considered vacation in USA
Iwas very disappointed to read that Michelle Obama took her younger daughter on a vacation to Spain’s Costa Del Sol while her older daughter is at sleep-away camp. While Mrs. Obama is a private citizen and has the right to travel where she wants, as first lady of this nation, I would think that she…
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Reader responds to letter on ‘uniculturalism’
Iread with interest the Your Turn guest column “U.S. Needs ‘Uniculturalism,’ Not More Multiculturalism,” (July 28) by Jim Fitzmaurice, trying to understand his position, as the writing seemed erudite and the thinking serious. Eventually, however, it became clear that under the rhetoric is simple bombast. Evidently, the man suffering from “a paucity of melanin,” the…
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Writer says it is time to end the crusade against racism
In his July 28 Your Turn guest column, “U.S. Needs ‘Uniculturalism,’ Not More Multiculturalism,” Jim Fitzmaurice did an excellent job of pointing out the shortcomings and frauds of the multiculturalism “religion.” However, in making some racerelated statements he shows that he is a victim, perhaps subconsciously, of the very dogma he decries. He wrote: “It…
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Frances Marie Kostbar
Mrs. Kostbar, 94, of Manalapan, died May 21, 2010, at home. Prior to her retirement in 1987, she was a school bus driver for the Manalapan Englishtown Regional Schools. She had previously worked as a floor lady in a lamp factory in South River. Mrs. Kostbar was a lifelong self-employed farmer and road stand operator.…
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Helen M. Cannon
Mrs. Cannon, 78, of Jacobstown, died July 5, 2010. A native of Chicago, Ill, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mundelein College in Illinois and her Master of Arts in education from the University of Southern California. She worked in education for over 40 years, retiring as a teacher at St. Mary’s Catholic…
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Mary Gorbich
Mrs. Gorbich, 90, of Howell, died July 14, 2010, at Geraldine Thompson Health Care Center, Wall. She was born in Manville and had lived in Farmingdale prior to moving to Howell. She was a homemaker and a Sunday school teacher. Mrs. Gorbich was predeceased by her husband, Walter, in 2006, and a daughter, Carolyn Ann…
