Category: News Transcript Opinion
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Laws should be defined as primary offenses
The recent column by Greg Bean, “Here’s Another Law That Motorists Will Just Ignore,” hits a few good notes, but misses the real mark about how important safety legislation is for the driving public. I authored the first township ordinance in New Jersey that banned the use of hand-held cell phones while driving a motor…
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Be aware of the dangers of a new drug
Do you know about the newest drug craze called Cheese? No one really did before 2006. Cheese, which is a combination of black tar heroin and crushed up Tylenol PM, is the newest popular recreational drug among teens today. Cheese is extremely addictive and deadly. Hits of it sell for $1 to $2. The worst…
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It is time for Americans to step up and help to save Darfur
As Americans, we are not taking action in Darfur, Sudan. “The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action,” says the English philos-opher Herbert Spencer. In order for us to take action, we must be educated. There is a genocide occurring in this region of Africa. Since 2003, the Sudanese government has formed militias…
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Resident says sign is meant to provide information
“… I can say with 100 percent confidence that I certainly have never given a bribe to township officials …” When I was younger, I found myself on the front lines of a war that I really didn’t understand. What I did know is that at the age of 18 I signed up to serve…
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Frances J. Bostjancic
Mrs. Bostjancic, 82, of Freehold Township, died May 2, 2007, at Bartley Healthcare Nursing & Rehabilitation, Jackson. Born in Carlos, Md., she had lived in Jackson for 27 years before moving to Freehold Township eight years ago. Mrs. Bostjancic was a homemaker. She was a former parishioner of St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church, Jackson, and…
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Candidates for office should consent to be interviewed
I find it appalling that all three candidates chosen by the Republicans to replace former Committeeman Joe Locricchio have refused to be interviewed by the Township Committee. The residents of Manalapan deserve the most qualified person to sit on the committee. The Township Committee is now being asked to choose one of the three without…
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Belle Karp
Belle Karp, 93, of Englishtown, died April 28, 2007, at Applewood Estates, Freehold. Born in Russia, she had settled in the United States in 1914, residing in Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Englishtown 25 years ago. She was a bookkeeper in the garment industry. Mrs. Karp was predeceased by her husband, Murray Karp, in 1963.…
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Lack of information on dump is disturbing
Is it possible to fight a plan when you don’t even know what the plan is? That’s what area residents and elected officials are trying to do right now as they rally opposition to the possibility that some entity could try to establish a waste transfer station on a 10-acre property on Route 33 in…
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Vivian Schmeling
Mrs. Schmeling, 91, of Swainton, Cape May County, died April 28, 2007, at her son’s home in Swainton. She was born in Matawan and had lived in Holmdel before moving to The Villages, Howell, in 1986. A graduate of Matawan High School, she was a lifelong administrative assistant and spent the past 40 years of…
