Category: News Transcript Opinion
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Practical advice for grads: once more into the breach
CODA GREG BEAN As happens every year at this time, we’ve heard a lot of graduation addresses filled with uplifting exhortations that basically come down to “be the best that you can be.” I think First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech to graduating high school students in Washington, D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood was the most moving of…
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Civil rights of all in U.S. should be protected
Iwas very saddened when I read the Your Turn guest column by Brian Sullivan and Richard Kelsey in the June 16 News Transcript (“Answers Needed in Freehold”). I was one of the founding members of Casa Freehold. For personal reasons, I left the organization in 2006. One of the main objectives of this organization during…
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Gov. Christie’s property tax reform agenda: Cap 2.5
GUEST COLUMN LORI GRIFA The people of New Jersey elected Gov. Chris Christie to get government under control and begin to ease the property tax burden that so many households in this state face. He is working hard to accomplish these goals because he understands the immense strain that costly government and escalating property taxes…
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Landlords responsible for their property
Property owners are responsible for the properties they own, whether they live in them or not — it’s a bedrock principle in America. And municipal governments are responsible for ensuring that property owners don’t shirk that responsibility — that’s another bedrock principle. But the landlords who own 1,350 housing units in Freehold Borough, and who…
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Tragedy strikes on I-195
IN THE NEWS MARK ROSMAN It is said that God, bless His heart, works in mysterious ways. Sometimes you just have to wonder what He may be thinking. Spend too much time doing that, and you can go a little insane. But it is impossible for me to be the editor of newspapers that cover…
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FRHSD graduation scheduled for June 24
Just under 3,000 seniors in the Freehold Regional High School District (FRHSD)will celebrate a milestone in their lives when they receive their high school diplomas on the evening of June 24. According to information provided by the FRHSD, a total of 2,919 students at the district’s six high schools will be among the class of…
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on campus •••
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., awarded degrees to the following students: Freehold residents Tracy Becker, a Bachelor of Science degree in astrophysics, and Jesse Greenberg, a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and business; Howell residents Eurie Choi, a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology, Ryan Fallon, a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering, John…
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Local pupils release trout
On May 27, approximately 225 students and teachers convened at the Forest Resource Education Center in Jackson to participate in the third annual Trout in the Classroom Field Day. Seven of the Monmouth, Ocean and Middlesex county schools that have raised native New Jersey brook trout from eggs released their fingerlings into the Toms River.…
