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  • Mundane problems deserve mayor’s attention, too

    It always makes me chuckle to see Marlboro Mayor Robert Kleinberg boasting of his corruption busting. It really only amounts to opening file cabinets for the feds, perhaps with a single bound. It is a shame he can’t instead brag about easing congestion or satisfying our affordable housing obligation to prevent the builders from running…

  • Coda

    Geraldo is still running off at the (big) mouth Greg Bean You know, one of these days someone is going to get fed up with Geraldo Rivera’s threats and beat him like a rented mule. Not that I watch either one of them on television, but there’s apparently quite a feud going between Geraldo and…

  • Transfer of affordable housing called into question

    Bringing the subject of affordable housing commitments into forums for a discussion of techniques in consort with “back door” politics is long overdue. Nurtured through Regional Contribution Agreements (RCA), its questionable agendas have created a need for RCAs to be reviewed through corrective legislation. Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts Jr. is to be congratulated for…

  • Are We There Yet?

    Suddenly, the mom is cursing like a sailor Lori Clinch I was having a lovely phone conversation with my sister the other day when she asked me out of the blue, “What are you doing?” “What do you mean, what am I doing?” I replied with bewilderment before I answered quite curtly. “I’m talking to…

  • Dems cut Rutgers budget, jump on football bandwagon

    State Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan (D-Middlesex) has, in print, urged Rutgers University to fund six Olympic sports that are due to be eliminated in 2007. This was done after the Democratic-controlled state Legislature reduced Rutgers’ support by $66 million. It seems somewhat strange that Diegnan, a Seton Hall alumnus (bachelor of arts and juris doctor degrees),…

  • Gov. should keep promise for constitutional convention

    If we were to cast a television adaptation of “Trenton Does Property Tax Relief,” who better to star than Jerry, George Costanza and Cosmo Kramer? The bumbling, stumbling and ineptitude would be funny, if it wasn’t so sad. Many of us have worked for several years seeking a citizens constitutional property tax convention. We have…

  • Obituaries

    Anthony L. Howard Mr. Howard, 54, of the Cliffwood Beach section of Old Bridge, formerly of the Morganville section of Marlboro, died Dec. 30, 2006, in Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Surviving are his wife, Darlene Burlew Howard; a son, Andre; two daughters, Rhonda and Lonnie; five brothers; four sisters; and nine grandchildren. Private services were…

  • School board gets update on special ed. enrollment

    BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer MARLBORO – School administrators believe the special education enrollment in Marlboro’s K-8 district has stabilized. Robert Klein, the director of special services, made a presentation to the Board of Education on Dec. 12 regarding the future of the special education population in the district. According to…

  • Howell concert will honor music teacher’s memory

    HOWELL – Former students of music teach Steven Gosewisch will honor his memory and impact on their lives when they play in the Steven Gosewisch Memorial Scholarship Concert at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 13 at Howell High School, Squankum-Yellowbrook Road. Gosewisch died suddenly on Jan. 12, 2006 at home in Long Branch. He taught music in…