Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Do not destroy maritime forest

    YOUR TURN MICHELE S. BYERS GUEST COLUMN I t has been two years since superstorm Sandy. Up and down the coast, ceremonies recently marked the state’s progress in rebuilding homes, businesses and infrastructure destroyed by Sandy — and increasing our capacity to weather future storms. But one ill-advised proposal in particular is being advanced in…

  • ON CAMPUS

    Chandler Nichols, the son of April and David Nichols of Manalapan, has been named a recipient of the Dr. Jeffrey and Dr. Helene Cross Scholarship Award for the spring semester at Monmouth University, West Long Branch. This scholarship for outstanding academic achievement recognizes a student who attends the Leon Hess Business School majoring in finance…

  • Freeholders must fund community college

    The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders has gutted funding to Brookdale Community College three years in a row. It’s plain and simple — what was once the educational pearl of Monmouth is now in jeopardy. A recommendation made last week by the college’s board of trustees (most of whom are selected by the all-Republican Monmouth…

  • Company Mode has the family jumping

    ARE WE THERE YET Lori Clinch I t is December. With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas all around us, we are truly in the thick of the holiday season. It is so much more than trimming trees and tangling tinsel. It is beyond decking with boughs of holly. Yes sir, it is more about cleaning…

  • Concrete crusher is bad plan for Marlboro

    This letter is to ask some straightforward questions of the Marlboro Zoning Board of Adjustment in response to a recent letter to the editor concerning a proposed concrete crusher in Marlboro. Would you want to live and work right next to a business that produces known carcinogens? Would you want your child to play outside…

  • Margaret Rita Kane

    Margaret Rita Kane, 91, of Freehold Township, died Nov. 23, 2014, at Sunrise Senior Living, Jackson. Margaret was born and raised in Eckley, Pa., and lived in Alabama, Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky before moving to Freehold Township in 1967. She was a graduate of Mercy Fitzgerald Nursing School in Pennsylvania. Margaret was a registered nurse…

  • FOR THE RECORD

    The Boy Scouts of America said it had two individuals named Messengers of Peace Heroes, Joseph Vitale and Bray Barnes. A recent News Transcript article indicated there was only one individual who received that honor.

  • ROTC to host bookstore event

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Fans of the children’s book “The Polar Express” and its 2004 movie adaptation are invited to get in pajamas and slippers, and make their way to Barnes & Noble, 3981 Route 9 North, on Dec. 5. The Cadets of the Naval Junior ROTC Unit of Colts Neck High School will host a…

  • High school event will put Marlboro’s diversity on display

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer MARLBORO — Nearly a dozen countries will be represented as the township celebrates its diversity at Marlboro High School. On the seventh annual Marlboro Multi- Cultural Day, guests are invited to travel around the globe and explore the culture of countries that include Italy, China, India, Spain, Guatemala, Vietnam, Israel,…