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  • The maddening, glorious times of our children’s lives

    Are We There Yet? • LORI CLINCH My friend’s child has just turned a year old. As the birthday girl licked the frosting off a flower cookie that didn’t look so much like a flower, my friend observed that she didn’t know where the last year had gone and then wondered, “Will the time always…

  • Murray Feldstein

    Mr. Feldstein, 96, a resident of Manalapan for 20 years, died March 15, 2009, at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold Township. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and an owner/operator of supermarkets for more than 40 years, retiring 30 years ago. Mr. Feldstein was a member of the JWV of Manalapan…

  • Resident is still looking for answers from sewerage authority officials

    Iwrote a letter to the editor in March 2008 about the Western Monmouth Utilities Authority’s rates. I saw that Raymond Kostanty of Manalapan addressed that same issue in a recent letter. Here is what I said a year ago: “How does one start a letter that affects thousands of homeowners? I am referring to the…

  • Writer says Loeb is well-suited to serve on FRHSD board

    President Dwight Eisenhower said, “The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.” This quote best depicts Gordon Loeb, who was recently appointed to fill the Marlboro seat on the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education. I have had the pleasure of knowing…

  • Silly season is over, and now it’s the Season of the Weird

    Coda • GREG BEAN It was the late, great Hunter S. Thompson who observed that “when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” And these days, it looks like we’ve got a whole passel of people looking to shed their amateur rags and exchange them for the flashy professional variety. We have definitely entered…

  • Resident continues debate about WMUA sewer rates

    Judging by their rebuttal letter in the Feb. 25 edition of the News Transcript (“WMUA Responds to Resident’s Letter About Sewer Rates”), Western Monmouth Utilities Authority commissioners Abraham, Toubin, Rosen and Pernice either didn’t bother to read completely my Feb. 18 letter, or chose to raise bogus issues in an attempt to divert attention from…

  • Antoinette M. (Schwartz) Leventhal

    Mrs. Leventhal, 56, of Freehold, died March 3, 2009, at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Born in Long Branch, she resided in Freehold most of her life. She was employed for the past 28 years as an inside sales representative for McMaster-Carr Supply Co. of Dayton and Robbinsville, retiring in December 2008. Mrs.…

  • Optimists are looking for people who received awards

    Atouch of Optimism in this difficult year. The Freehold Optimist Club is celebrating its 50th anniversary. I am the oldest surviving member of the club (now in my 81st year), having joined in 1959. During those years our club accomplished many things in the community. We raised $100,000 for the hospital — beginning long before…

  • Rita Marie Radosti

    Mrs. Radosti, 80, a lifelong resident of Manalapan, died March 5, 2009, at home. She was a communicant of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church, Englishtown. Surviving are her husband, Vincent Radosti; a son, Frank Radosti and his wife, Susan; two daughters, Anita Reeves and her husband, Richard, and Rose Ann Weeden; a brother, Edward…