Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Prayer in home should not be considered a disturbance

    Regarding the article on the front page of the News Transcript’s Jan. 30 issue (“Neighbor Makes Case Home Is House of Worship”), I find it disturbing that there is a conflict at all. If Rabbi Avraham Bernstein and his houseguests were dealing drugs, running a prostitution ring or were drunk and disorderly I could understand…

  • Special memories made on Grandparents Day

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Destinee Angerame, 7, plays a hand game with her grandfather, Michael Rickey, during a luncheon for pupils and their grandparents during Catholic Schools Week at St. Rose of Lima School, Freehold Borough. FREEHOLD – Grandparents rule and children at the St. Rose of Lima…

  • Teachers, board still negotiating

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN – Board of Education members listened to accolades followed several times by applause and standing ovations as person after person, most of them teachers, beseeched the members of the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District Board of Education to approve a new deal for the Manalapan-Englishtown Education Association (MEEA). The MEEA’s…

  • Betty Munley

    Mrs. Munley, 82, of Keyport, died Feb. 2, 2008, at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. She is survived by two daughters, Genny Kudash of Matawan, and Judith Priccaciante of Brielle; two sisters, Nellodene Weist of Graceville, Pa., and Bernadette Hammond of Marlboro; three granddaughters; three great-grandchildren; and one greatgreat grandson. A funeral service was at…

  • Mary C. LaFaso

    Mrs. LaFaso, 88, of Barnegat, died Feb. 2 at Southern Ocean County Hospital in Manahawkin, Born in Hillside, she was raised in Elizabeth, lived in Roselle for 48 years and then in Freehold for 13 years before moving to Barnegat four months ago. She was a payroll clerk for Mack Camara in Union for 15…

  • Sally Pace

    Mrs. Pace, 80, of Freehold, died Feb. 2 at Geraldine L. Thompson Care Center, Wall. She was born in Zejtun, Malta, and settled in Queens, New York, in 1950 before moving to Freehold in 1994. Mrs. Pace was a dietician for the City of New York at Public School No. 27 in College Point before…

  • Helen L. Flanagan

    Helen L. Flanagan Mrs. Flanagan, 88, of Freehold Township, died Feb. 2, 2008, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold. She was predeceased by her husband, Joseph Flanagan in 1990. She is survived by a son, William Flanagan of Morristown; a daughter, Nancy Flanagan of Laurel, Md.; a brother, George Leavell of Floral Park, N.Y.; a sister,…

  • Richard W. Kniesler

    Mr. Kniesler, 73, of Freehold Township, died Jan. 30, 2008, at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. Born in Trenton, he was a lifelong resident of Freehold Township and a 1952 graduate of Freehold High School, Freehold Borough. Mr. Kniesler was the superintendent of streets and roads for the Freehold Township Department of Public Works,…

  • Coda

    Besides Rush, there wasn’t a friendly face in the house GREG BEAN You have to give Gov. Jon Corzine credit for walking into the lion’s den. Either he just doesn’t care that so many people are furious with him, or he feels safe because of the New Jersey State Police security detail that protects him…