Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Chance for a new life

    Here’s hoping that an area resident will be the person who is able to breathe new life into the dormant American Hotel in downtown Freehold Borough. The local landmark – which had not operated as a hotel for years, but was a hub of banquet activity – was sold at public auction on March 23…

  • Freehold Borough resident opposes school referendum

    The Freehold Borough schools are going to try again to burden the people of Freehold with a multimillion-dollar voting plan to expand the three local schools. Do you suppose any of those people ever heard of “making do”? Making do means taking what you have and utilizing it. What you have here in the borough…

  • Greg Bean

    Coda Scandalmongers aren’t interested in the truth There was a lot of tension between the French and Italians at the recent European Union summit, and last week Italian Prime Minister Silvio Burlusconi made a joke. According to Reuters, Burlusconi strolled into the conference room, walked up to seated French President Jacques Chirac and put his…

  • Youngsters can show adults how to work together

    The polemic and accusatory discourse rising from the political halls of Manalapan was extremely dismaying, especially as it was repulsively replete with ethnic slurs, calls for resignation and other facets of current personal vindictive on “both sides.” Accordingly, I was heartened to see Managing Editor Mark Rosman’s column (“Stepping Up to the Plate,” News Transcript,…

  • David C. Abbott

    Guest Column School budget shaped with difficult decisions As the educational leader of this district for the past nine years, I am very proud of all that our students have accomplished during that time. However, due to a law passed by the state Legislature in 2004 (S-1701), stringent caps were placed upon school budgets, which…

  • Parents do not pay nearly enough in school taxes

    In his March 22 column about expenses seniors face, Greg Bean supports the idea of sparing seniors the burden of school taxes mainly because they haven’t had any kids in the school system for 40 to 50 years (but he’s strangely silent about the same breaks for those who have never had kids in any…

  • Governor is no financial whiz in saving N.J. budget

    The most realistic part of Gov. Jon Corzine’s budget address may have shattered the dreams of New Jersey voters, since it dealt with his confessional. He stated, “to those who thought my financial background would mean I had some magic bullet in my holster to balance the budget, I am sorry to disappoint you.” However,…

  • On Campus

    Samantha Frange of Manalapan was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Rider University, Lawrence-ville. She is a 2005 graduate of Manal-apan High School. Ryan McGuire, son of Joyce and Howard McGuire of Marlboro, was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. He…

  • Obituaries

    Therese “Terry” Humenn Mrs. Humenn, 70, of Old Bridge, died Feb. 23 in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. She was the former owner of Gifts and Smiles, Fair Haven and Matawan. She worked as assistant coordinator of arts and crafts at Pine Brook Nursing Home, Englishtown. Surviving are her former husband, Richard F.…