Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Marlboro resident supports effort to promote shared services

    I would like to thank the Marlboro Mayor Jon Hornik for his efforts to stabilize taxes and maintain services to the town without reaching deeper into the pockets of the residents. On April 7 there was a press conference in Marlboro to discuss an important bipartisan initiative to save the taxpayers’ money through sharing services…

  • Students should have looked at other side of AIDS issue

    The April 8 edition of the News Transcript carried an article about the four Manalapan High School students who won awards for their idea of curing AIDS via gene transplants from resistant people (“Teens Honored for Idea to Cure AIDS”). While their objective of an AIDS cure seems noble and well intended, it is too…

  • Public is invited to attend Rutgers Day on April 25

    In recognition of Rutgers University’s unique relationship with the people of New Jersey, we are opening our doors to the public for the first-ever Rutgers Day on April 25. In difficult economic times, it is more important than ever to connect the university’s resources to those we serve. On Rutgers Day, all New Jerseyans are…

  • Elizabeth A. Fama

    63, of Manalapan Elizabeth A. Fama Mrs. Fama was born, raised and lived in Bayonne before settling in Manalapan in 1972. Mrs. Fama was a graduate of the Holy Family Academy in Bayonne, NJ. She was a parishioner of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and a member of the Ladies of St. Joseph’s. Mrs. Fama was…

  • Vivian Chimento

    Mrs. Chimento, 94, of Long Branch, died March 30, 2009, at home, following a lengthy illness. Born in Naples, Italy, she came to Ellis Island in 1922. She and her late husband owned and operated the Shore Hills Motel, Sea Bright Bathing Pavilion, and Sands Beach Club, retiring in 1987. Mrs. Chimento was predeceased by…

  • Jane Ann Ostermiller

    Mrs. Ostermiller, 83, of Freehold, died April 6, 2009, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. She was born in Orange and moved to Freehold in 1941. She was predeceased by her parents, John and Elizabeth Ostermiller, who were owners of the Strand Bakery on Main Street in Freehold from 1941 to 1962. Surviving are a…

  • Frank A. “Spat” Federici

    Mr. Federici, 84, of Freehold died April 16, 2009, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. He was born April 27, 1924, in a room above Federici’s Restaurant, 14 E. Main St., Freehold, and remained a lifelong resident of Freehold. Mr. Federici served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946, after which he joined the…

  • Molly Bossewitch

    Mrs. Bossewitch, 95, of Howell, died April 4, 2009, at Brandywine Assisted Living in Howell. Born in New York, she lived in Brooklyn for many years before moving to Manalapan, Marlboro and later, Howell. Mrs. Bossewitch was a stenographer for Harry K. Ebenstein in New York City for more than 40 years. Her husband, Arthur…

  • Family vacation: the good the bad and the flat ugly

    Coda • GREG BEAN When I was a kid, family vacations were a special level of hell reserved for the worst miscreants imaginable. And it wasn’t the Hades we learned about in Bible class, the kind of place you go after a long lifetime of misdeeds. Nope, family vacations were a more immediate form of…