Category: News Transcript Opinion
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Area student attends conference
MARLBORO – National 4-H Council and Carhartt have named Sarah Sakowski of the Morganville section of Marlboro as a 4-H Carhartt Scholar. This distinction places Sarah among 170 other 4-H youth attending Citizenship Washington Focus (CWF) as a member of the second class of 4- H Carhartt Scholars. Sarah attended CWF the week of July…
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Relax, enjoy 30 years of saving open space
In 1675, Richard Hartshorne, one of the earliest settlers in east ern Monmouth County, wrote a friend an enthusiastic letter about the natural abundance early set tlers enjoyed in “New Jersie.” He was almost rapturous in describing the great variety of farm produce and fruits enjoyed by the early settlers, the abundant grasses for his…
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No need for family’s personal life to be played out in the papers
Iam writing this in response to an article written in the Aug. 22 News Transcript involving Drew Shapiro and Stuart Moskovitz (“Political Foes Do Battle on Yet Another Front.”) I have known Drew Shapiro and his family for almost 20 years. I know him and his family to be good law-abiding citizens as well as…
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Drop the wine cooler, Grandma, or go to jail
GREG BEAN Coda In the end, it looks like stupidity won over common sense at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel. Since July, almost 500 of the dumbest people on the East Coast have managed to get themselves arrested for underage drinking and various other liquor-related offenses at the venue, and dozens have been…
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What women want isn’t that hard to figure out
CLARE MARIE CELANO Girl Talk If Sigmund Freud had taken a little more time and gently asked women what they really wanted, rather than probing and plumbing their psyches, he quite possibly could have changed the course of history. What do women want? At least in an intimate relationship? I make no claims to…
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Facing the nightmares of going back to school
LORI CLINCH Are We There Yet? Iknow a gal whose little dears happen to love school. Armed with compasses, rulers and a brand-new set of colored pencils, her children are known to count down the last days of summer vacation with pure bliss. It’s enough to make a gal like me choke on her big…
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Time for air travelers to demand a bill of rights
GREG BEAN Coda My stepfather has some strong opinions, but he’s a good Republican and hardly the type you’d accuse of being a rabble-rouser. Last time I saw him, though, he was ready to lead a national revolution, and his target was the United States airline industry, which he considers the most arrogant, most poorly…
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Mom goes above and beyond the call of duty
LORI CLINCH Are We There Yet? When our boys were little, they used to hold my hand on the way to their sporting events. My presence was not only welcome at their contests, it was crucial. They wanted me at their practices and in the bleachers during their games. No sitting in the car and…
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Team effort turns away waste station
Chalk up another victory for the Sludge Busters and for the residents of Freehold Township, Freehold Borough and the surrounding area. Western Monmouth County has dodged a big environmental bullet. The Sludge Busters are a group of citizens named for a successful 1994 fight against an objectionable industrial proposal in Freehold Township. They came together…
