Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • 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…

  • Administrator: New school expected to open on time

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer The John I. Dawes Early Learning Center which will house all of the kindergarten pupils in the Manal-apan-Englishtown Regional School District will open on time in September. Joseph Passiment, the business administrator for the school district which serves K-8 youngsters from Manalapan and Englishtown, provided that…

  • Freehold school supt. will leave Howell school panel

    BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer BY TOYNETT HALLStaff Writer HOWELL – Board of Education member Elizabeth O’Connell is resigning from the panel that oversees the operation of the Howell K-8 School District. O’Connell said the task of juggling her duties as the superintendent of schools in the Freehold Borough School District and being an active…

  • Fairgoers enjoyed four days of the 2007 Monmouth County Fair

    On July 29 the Monmouth County Fair ended on a wet note when a summer rain storm forced an early closing on its fifth and final day at the East Freehold Park showgrounds in Freehold Township. Interestingly, while it rained repeatedly in other parts of the county up until then, the fair enjoyed four solid…

  • Middlesex freeholder seeks to clarify record on MOM

    I would like to respond to the letter to the editor “Middlesex Freeholder Wrong on MOM Rail Line” (News Transcript, June 13) written by Daniel Green, a member of the Ocean County Transportation Advisory Board. Mr. Green’s letter is critical of my position opposing the waste of public funds on any further study of the…

  • Rail service would serve population in this region

    Richard Krenzel’s opposition to the Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex (MOM) passenger rail line (“Where Is Guarantee that Rail Line Will Not Cause Home Value to Drop?” News Transcript, Letters to the Editor, July 11) appears to be based on home values and not the transportation needs of travelers. His question regarding his willingness to support the MOM line…

  • Forum hosted by Beck was appreciated by commuters

    Forum hosted by Beck was appreciated by commuters Academy Bus Lines has had a horrendous service record for decades because they have a service monopoly along the Route 9 corridor into downtown Wall Street, New York City. They just do not seem to care about the commuters. As an almost 13-year Wall Street commuter, like…

  • House concerts bring the music to Freehold Borough

    As a lifelong Freehold Borough resident, an ardent music fan and one who has attended several of Mark and Elaine Costanzo’s “Concerts in the Studio,” I am delighted to see that more reasonable heads prevailed at the zoning board meeting on July 24 (“Board Rules Concerts Are Permitted as House Party,” New Transcript, Aug. 1,…

  • Mayor, council must do more to preserve open space

    It saddens me to drive around Marlboro these days and see so many “Land for Sale” signs. Those properties should read “Preserved for Open Space.” I am shocked that this administration, both the Mayor and the Township Council, can look residents in the eye. They all platformed for open space yet virtually none has been…