Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Obituaries

    Eleanor “Nornie” Lambertson Hesseltine Mrs. Hesseltine, 90, of Red Bank, died Jan. 12, 2007, at Navesink Harbor, Red Bank. She was born in Freehold. She was an avid tennis player and platform tennis player, and won several local tournaments as well as the National Senior Platform Tennis Champion-ship. Mrs. Hesseltine was recently inducted into the…

  • Middle school mathematics teacher honored

    MARLBORO – Kamala Murti, a mathematics teacher at the Marlboro Memorial Middle School, has been selected as a winner of the Edyth May Sliffe Award for Distinguished Junior High School Mathematics Teaching from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Murti is one of 50 teachers selected for the award from all junior high schools in…

  • Marlboro board reviews school safety procedures

    BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer MARLBORO – Safety measures that have been taken in the Marlboro K-8 School District were a topic of discussion at a recent meeting of the Board of Education. Several members of the Safe Schools Task Force Committee presented a report to the board detailing safety measures…

  • Hello? Anyone home?

    You have to wonder if the people in the Englishtown Police Department really know what’s going on in the borough. On Jan. 11 a person informed the News Transcript newsroom that they had seen an accident in Englishtown in which a telephone pole had fallen through a car. As far as we can tell, that…

  • For the Record

    Marlboro is not included on a list of New Jersey municipalities where Verizon is immediately planning to offer its FiOS fiber optic service because Verizon is still in the process of building its network in Marlboro. A story in the Jan. 17 News Transcript discussed the FiOS service being made available in western Monmouth County…

  • Are We There Yet?

    She’s really had it with caulking those windows Lori Clinch My husband is a building contractor, a carpenter and an all-around do-it-yourselfer kind of guy. With construction as his name and fortitude as his game, he can fabricate the kind of home that a woman dreams of. His tools are shiny, his speed square is…

  • Young drivers need a way to be identified in vehicles

    One of the items left at a roadside memorial where four people died in a motor vehicle accident was a football for Freehold High School senior Michael Dragonetti, who was the captain of the Colonials’ football team during the 2006 season. After the horrific and tragic loss of three Freehold High School students and a…

  • Principal led way with compassion and understanding

    … [M]y son said, without missing a beat, “She wanted us all to come to school today.” I knew who “she” was. Mrs. Jewell. With much gratitude I would like to thank Freehold High School Principal Linda Jewell and her colleagues who helped our children deal with the tragedy that occurred Jan. 10. Within an…

  • State first aid council opposes legislation

    The New Jersey State First Aid Council (NJSFAC) opposes bills A-3749 and S-2302 now before the state Legislature. The 77-year-old nonprofit NJSFAC, which represents more than 20,000 EMS volunteers, believes these bills would: + Decrease funding for first responding basic life support (BLS) units that depend on patient billing to support their operations, and transfer…