Category: News Transcript Opinion
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WMUA responds to resident’s letter about sewer rates
A recent letter to the editor, "Sewer Authority’s Flat-Rate Pricing Is Unfair to Some Customers" (News Transcript, Feb. 18), argued that sewer and water rates are one in the same and should be billed similarly. This could not be further from the truth. Here’s why. The operation of a wastewater management plant — particularly in…
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Senator misses key points on affordable housing
Guest Column • Joseph Doria In response to state Sen. Jennifer Beck’s latest unfounded attack on the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (COAH), (“Gov.’s Affordable Housing Law is Destructive to New Jersey,” News Transcript, Feb. 18), I felt it was necessary to reply and correct the various inaccuracies stated in her editorial. Last October,…
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Resident dismayed that budget vote can be overturned
News Transcript Managing Editor Mark Rosman is right on the “money” with his column on Feb. 4 (“Moving Date of Election Will Be Political Cocktail”). Of all the votes I have participated in (30-plus years and counting), I have never felt so betrayed by my right to “vote” for school budgets. What a farce when…
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For the Record
Under the 2009 budget proposed by the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders, the county tax rate would be 23.04 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, up from the 2008 tax rate of 22.5 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. The tax rate listed for 2009 was incorrect in a story that was published in the…
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Jeweler gave customer an amazing Christmas gift
I can’t begin to say how wonderfully I was treated by Abe Presman and his staff at Abe Presman Jewelers this past Christmas season. There are no words to express my feelings for the way they embraced my problem and set about to make it right. My wife, Barbara, was killed this past July 14…
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Resident unhappy to see ex-chief walk away with $73,000
Is there ever a day that one can get up out of bed, turn on the television or read the daily newspaper without hearing about another public official in national or local government who has betrayed the confidence/ trust of the public, abused their authority, misused the public’s funds, believed that they were above the…
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Norma L. Marks
92, of Howell Norma L. Marks Mrs. Marks was born in Long Branch and moved to The Villages, Howell Twp., in 1973. She was a Budget Analyst for the U.S. Government, Ft. Monmouth, from 1942 until her retirement in 1970. She was a member, past president and was active in scheduling and running Atlantic…
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Marion S. Barczak
80, of Freehold, a veteran of the U.S. Army during World War II Marion S. Barczak Mr. Barczak was born in Brooklyn, NY, and had lived in Queens, NY, Anchorage, Alaska, and Manalapan, NJ, before moving to Surrey Downs, Freehold, NJ, in 1985. He was a parishioner of St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church, Freehold Twp.,…
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Edward T. “Tadpole” Moore Sr.
Mr. Moore, 51, of Freehold, died Feb. 8, 2009, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. He was born in Neptune Township and was a lifelong Freehold resident. Mr. Moore was the assistant manager of Kinsey Auto Spa, Freehold. Prior to that he was employed at Freehold Cartage for 15 years. He was predeceased by a…
