Category: News Transcript Opinion
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In Bizarre World, movie popcorn is a bargain
Coda Coda • GREG BEAN I read the most curious story in the newspaper recently, and it still has me scratching my head. The national motion picture industry, which does 40 percent of its business between May and August when the summer blockbusters reach the theater, is having an unexpected boom this year, in…
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Disagreement is not over immigrants who came legally
I am writing in response to Thomas Baldwin’s letter to the editor in the May 27 News Transcript ("Immigrants Came to the United States for the Right Reasons"). I am the grandchild of immigrants and I agree that immigrants helped make this country great and wonderfully diverse and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.…
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Time to reveal details of internal investigation
In an ongoing matter of public interest, the News Transcript stands with the Latino LeadershipAlliance of New Jersey and we join its attempt to find out what has transpired in a matter that has lingered over Freehold Borough since Jan. 29, 2008. On that night Freehold Borough police officers stopped a vehicle that matched the…
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Harold Gary Swart
65, of Freehold Township Harold Gary Swart Harold Gary Swart, 65, of Freehold Township died on June 8, 2009 at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Mr. Swart was born in Elmira, NY and was raised in Trumansburg, NY before settling to Freehold Township in 1981. Harold retired as a parts director for automobile dealerships throughout…
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Juan E. Yulan
80, Of Howell Juan E. Yulan Text of Obituary: Juan E. Yulan, 80, of Howell died on Monday, June 1. Mr. Yulan was born in Ecuador and came to the U.S. in 1969 settling in Queens, NY, before moving to Howell in 1996. He was a tool and die maker for Park Nameplate in Flushing,…
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For the Record
The correct phone number for Senior Helpers is 732-866-4488. The number was incorrect in an article that appeared in the June 3 News Transcript Health and Fitness special section.
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Salvatore V. Longo
Mr. Longo, 21, of Manalapan, died at home on May 21,2009. Born in Freehold, he was a lifelong resident of Manalapan. A graduate of Manalapan High School, he was a junior at Rutgers University and a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. Surviving are his parents, Roseann and Gerald Longo; three siblings Vincent, Gerard and…
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Evelyn R. Kronke
Ms. Kronke, 86, of Freehold Township, died May 18, 2009. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from Montclair State College and her master’s degree from New York University, serving on the educational staff at Ramsey High School for 35 years, first as an English teacher and finally as a guidance counselor. After retiring from the Ramsey…
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Dennis K. McGackin Jr.
Mr. McGackin, 27, died May 21, 2009, in Freehold Township. He was a graduate of Christian Brothers Academy, Lincroft, class of 2000, and attended the Berklee College of Music, Boston, Mass. He was employed at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Freehold Township. He was the Mc- Gackin family historian. Mr. McGackin is survived by his parents, Dennis…
