Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Residents feel bite of property revaluation

    MARK ROSMAN In the News Like many other people throughout western Monmouth County and New Jersey, the residents of the Surrey Downs adult community off of Route 524 in Howell are concerned about the amount of property taxes they pay. A recent revaluation of all properties in Howell has, in some cases, added a significant…

  • Principal will strive to see all of her students succeed

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Donna Johnson FREEHOLD – Above all, Donna Johnson loves children. Johnson, the newly appointed principal of the Freehold Learning Center elementary school, Dutch Lane Road, said she does not remember one defining moment when she knew that teaching would be her profession. She said whatever it was that led…

  • School security remains key topic for educators

    BY ERIN O. STATTEL Correspondent School is just around the corner and local officials are moving from their summer schedules to discuss safety issues that local schools will face when their doors open in September. State Assemblyman Michael Panter (D-Monmouth and Mercer) invited local school officials and law enforcement personnel of the 12th District to…

  • Resident believes new direction needed in Marlboro mayor’s office

    The old adage is “a new broom sweeps clean,” and as a resident of Marlboro for over 20 years that is what I hoped for when Mayor Robert Kleinberg took office. However, things have not gotten better, and I would like to share my concerns with you. A major component of the mayor’s platform was…

  • Vote pro-eminent domain legislators out of office

    Now that Assembly bill ACR 138 has been tabled, I am calling for a statewide strategy meeting to dis – cuss our next step. Pressure needs to be applied to those legislators who stood in the way of eminent do main reform. While in Long Branch right now townspeople are so frustrated with the tax-and-spend…

  • Bill may change makeup of Fish and Game Council

    My town of residence, Plumsted Township in Ocean County, has thou sands of woodland acres with hun dreds of streams, ponds and lakes that have provided generations of families fishing and hunting oppor – tunities for recreation and food supply. However, pending state legislation could change what we have all been accustomed to and enjoyed.…

  • Immigrants are willing to do an honest day’s work

    Iwould like to applaud Tom Baldwin for the humanity and sanity expressed in his letter to the editor printed in the Aug. 8 News Transcript (“People Come to the United States Seeking Opportunities”), and add my own voice to his. I am continually shocked by and ashamed of the bigotry and selfishness so often expressed…

  • Commuter applauds Beck’s work on Academy bus issue

    As a commuter who has suffered the torture of riding Academy buses from Route 9 to Wall Street for the past seven years, I applaud Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck for taking the lead on finding a solution to this very difficult problem. I attended the assemblywoman’s public forum, held at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters in…

  • Time for committee to focus on real business in town

    Kudos on your recent editorial “Committee Caught Up in a Political Pickle” (News Transcript, Aug. 15). I have lived here for 36- plus years, and I think it’s about time for this idiocy to stop. Surely, there must have been a time when good local government transcended the concept of acquiring and retaining political power…