Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Around Town

    Poignant memories are music to my ears Amy Rosen I remember playing “Taste, Touch and Smell” as a child in which a blindfolded person used their senses to determine an object before them. We’d hold cheese under my father’s nose, something he despised the smell of, and roar with laughter at his reaction. I can…

  • Students are learning to care for their community

    Many children read or hear about how important contributing to their community is. The students of the Kiddie Academy of Marlboro have recently had the opportunity to experience it for themselves. In October the children participated in a trike-a-thon for the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The students raised over $1,200 from pledges they received…

  • Are We There Yet?

    The ladies close ranks on family spending Lori Clinch Years ago, as my husband approached his 30s, my mother-in-law became concerned that he might never marry. In a bit of a panic, she decided to take matters into her own hands. So, she did as any devout Catholic woman would do: she snatched up her…

  • Humane society supports trap-neuter-return program

    The Board of Health should rethink several of its strategies to reduce feral cat populations and protect the community (“Freehold Board of Health Turns Attention to Strays,” News Transcript, Jan. 24). Here are a few of the reasons why The Humane Society of the United States supports Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) programs: The enforcement of feeding bans…

  • Spaying and neutering cats can protect community

    Kudos to the Freehold Board of Health for looking for ways to reduce the number of feral cats in the city (“Freehold Board of Health Turns Attention to Strays,” News Transcript, Jan. 24, 2007). Allowing cats to live on the streets not only poses a rabies risk to humans, it puts the cats themselves in…

  • Director of curriculum nearing end of career

    Tom Nicola has seen Marlboro students excel for 34 years BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer Tom Nicola MARLBORO – Tom Nicola has a lot to be proud of after 34 years as the director of curriculum and instruction for the Marlboro School District. Nicola, whose retirement was announced at a recent…

  • Your Turn

    Arts council has vision of enhancing community Bruce Brickman Guest Column Bruce BrickmanGuest Column The Manalapan Arts Council (MAC) is a unique group of volunteers who “get stuff done.” MAC’s mission, supported by the Manalapan Township Committee, through the Department of Parks and Recreation, is to enhance access to the arts in our Manalapan community…

  • School district candidates must file by Feb. 26

    MARLBORO – School district Business Administrator Cindy Barr-Rague announced that three seats on the K-8 Marlboro Board of Education will be up for election in April. The seats presently held by Joe Waldman, Isaac Levy and Andrea Miller will expire in April. All three seats will be on the ballot as three-year terms. According to…

  • Are We There Yet?

    It’s as simple as filling out form 941N! Lori Clinch It’s January and I’m on a complete and total tax-type roll. You will be happy to know that I, Lori A. Clinch, have not only tallied my payroll data for the entire year of 2006, but have finished and mailed in the quarterly payroll reports…