Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Belle May Weiss

    Mrs. Weiss, 88, of Old Bridge, formerly of Brooklyn, N.Y., died Dec. 11, 2008, at Brookside Assisted Living facility, Freehold. She is predeceased by her husband, Leon, who died in 1976, and brother, Irving, who died in 1995. Surviving are two nieces, Bonnie Kirschenbaum and her husband, Jack, of Manalapan; Judi Belsky of Sarasota, Fla.,…

  • Parents must exercise control of teen drivers

    The News Transcript article “Numerous DWI Cases Keeping Officers Busy” of Dec. 10, 2008, presents a most disturbing picture of what has become of parental controls. Within an 11-day period, no fewer than six DWI charges were made in a relatively small geographic area; three of the six involved teenage drivers. The problems and issues…

  • Freehold Regional Board of Education risks losing public’s trust

    Recently, you ran retired Lt. Col. (USMC) James Sfayer’s commentary in support of James Wasser and the Freehold Regional High School District (“Freehold Regional Is Really All About Student Achievement,” News Transcript, Dec. 10). As a former U.S. Marine myself, and retired law enforcement officer, I have a different opinion. To suggest Wasser and the…

  • Charles M. Helfrich

    84, of Wall Township Charles M. Helfrich Charles M. Helfrich, 84, of Wall Twp., died Thursday, December 18, 2008, at Manor By The Sea, Ocean Grove. Mr. Helfrich was born in Neptune Twp., and had lived in West Belmar and Wall Twp. He was an auto mechanic for P.W. Shermann, Asbury Park. Prior to that, he…

  • The spirit of giving

    In the News • MARK ROSMAN Ah, the holidays. They bring out the best in people. The spirit of giving. Goodwill toward men. All that jazz. It is that holiday spirit that brings us to two members of the New Jersey Assembly — Democrat Reed Gusciora of Mercer County and Republican David Wolfe of Ocean…

  • Fed will reform credit card industry, but there’s a catch

    Coda • GREG BEAN Ialways laugh at those movies where the loan shark sends out a leg breaker like Rocky Balboa to collect on unpaid debts. In those movies, you get the idea that the loan sharks are always named Sal, and the people late with the payments are always down-on-their-luck alcoholic gamblers and degenerates…

  • Someday, everyone will have their day

    Around Town • AMY ROSEN Iknow that every day of our life is special, no one has to tell me that, but apparently there are a lot of people who feel the need to do that anyway. They give the days and weeks special names and I don’t mean Monday, Tuesday, etc. They have taken…

  • Invest money now in research & development

    Long before there was a Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, Calif., Silicon Alley in New Jersey produced some of the greatest inventions and scientific discoveries of the 20th century. Inventors, scientists and Nobel laureates such as Armstrong, Bardeen, Brattain, Edison, Einstein, Jansky, Joel, Kernighan, Ketchledge, Lucky, Marconi, McAfee, Nyquist, Penzias, Pierce, Ritchie, Sarnoff, Shannon, Shockley, Washburn…

  • Adult responsibilities cannot always be measured by a person’s age

    This letter is in response to Deborah C. Gumpper’s letter to the editor (“Decision Is Needed on What Constitutes an Adult in New Jersey”) in the Dec. 17, 2008 issue of the News Transcript. Ms. Gumpper pointed out some of the legal inconsistencies in using 21 as the legal age for alcohol consumption while using…