Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • World’s problems challenge all of us to seek solutions

    Mark Rosman, in his In the News column, (“There Is More to Life Than Problems in the Rain Forest,” News Transcript, Jan. 4, 2007) bemoans the fact that his children are not learning in school about problems close to home. I think he is missing the point that “problems in the rain forest” cause problems…

  • Committeeman has no reason to slam appointments

    As (Manalapan Township Commit-teeman) Joe Locricchio searches for answers as to why he was uninvolved in the Township Committee’s selection of professionals, he need look no further than the mirror. The Township Committee interviewed professionals at a public meeting and Mr. Locricchio chose not to attend. Mr. Locricchio also chose not to reach out to…

  • Obituaries

    Michael John Dragonetti Michael John Dragonetti, 17, died Jan. 10, 2007, in Freehold Township. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he had lived in Staten Island, N.Y., before moving to Freehold Township in 1999. Michael was a communicant of St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, Freehold. He had played in the Freehold Township Pop Warner Football…

  • Educational foundation provides annual grants

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer FREEHOLD – Students in borough schools have been the beneficiaries of more than $54,000 in grants contributed since 2001 by the Freehold Borough Educational Foundation. This year the foundation has presented grant winners with seven grants totaling $11,500, according to foundation Chairwoman Jean Holtz.…

  • In the News

    Quotes show leaders are way out of touch Mark Rosman It’s the little things that make me crazy at 5 a.m. I define “little things” as picking up my daily newspaper from the porch and seeing a pair of quotes from two purported New Jersey leaders that show me just how pathetic a state this…

  • Barham deserves to be freeholder director

    Despite an editorial challenge by a Western Mon-mouth newspaper to block Bill Barham as freeholder director, he was returned by a new bipartisan board, and rightly so. The freeholders recognized Director Barham has done a good job for years at all levels and deserved the directorship for 2007. Attending most freeholder meetings in 2006, I’ve…

  • Support is all that community can offer

    Numb. Shocked. Disbelief. Incredible tragedy. Unimaginable sadness. You can use those words and hundreds more and still not be able to fully describe the awful events that unfolded on Kozloski Road in Freehold Township on the afternoon of Jan. 10. In the blink of an eye the lives of four people came to an end…

  • Review of state’s graduated driver license program is needed

    “This bill … would empower New Jersey to enhance the state’s GDL law, giving it teeth by allowing a complete reassessment of teen driving laws …” That three more teenagers have died while driving New Jersey roads is becoming all too common morning reading. The most recent deaths occurred on the afternoon of Jan. 10…

  • Around Town

    A taste of summer during the winter Amy Rosen CHRIS KELLY staff Guy Robinson, 11, of Freehold, races out of the water after jumping into the Atlantic Ocean at Donovan’s Reef, Sea Bright, Jan. 7. The event was a fundraiser for Mater Dei High School, Middletown. Mother Nature has been pretty kind to us so…