Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Take time to evaluate plans for The Village

    Perhaps developer Richard J. Brunelli knows something that the Township Committee in Manalapan does not. Or perhaps the Township Committee knows something that residents don’t know. Brunelli is one of the driving forces behind a plan to build The Village at Manalapan at Route 33 and Millhurst Road. The plan has changed since it was…

  • Public must support call for a constitutional convention

    If the New Jersey Education Assoc-iation had been around in 1776 would it have campaigned against the Declaration of Independence? Would it have spent its members’ nickels and dimes to defeat the convention that resulted in our federal constitution? The answer to both questions, sadly, is probably so. The New Jersey Education Assoc-iation has adopted…

  • Obituaries

    Evelyn H. Wagner Mrs. Wagner, 90, of Freehold, died Jan. 25 at home. Born in Newark, she had resided in the Adelphia section of Howell before moving to Freehold. Prior to retiring in 1979, she was a seamstress for various coat factories. She was a member of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union Local 130,…

  • Efforts to repeal law are self-serving

    Robert Whittemore Guest Column Everyone committed to quality education needs to collaborate, focus on quality and avoid distorting the potential impact of the recently enacted New Jersey Senate Bill S-1701. Why was the emphasis of a recent report on the S-1701 funding law focused on efforts to fight legislation already passed? Doing so overlooks the…

  • Parents need to be aware of dangers of heroin use by young adults

    Heroin use has been on the rise in the United States since 1992. In New Jersey, heroin has become the No. 1 addictive drug. It is one of the top two drugs most frequently associated with death. It is relatively cheap and easy to obtain in urban areas and local rural communities. Perhaps the scariest…

  • America’s soldiers have put forth a tremendous effort

    I would like to share with your readers my recent experience attending the presidential inaugural in Washing-ton, D.C. I was invited along with others from my veterans organization, Veterans of the Vietnam War and The Veterans Coalition, to attend the “Salute to Heroes” veterans ball following the inauguration ceremonies. It was an honor to meet…

  • Resident resents activists’ reference to Farmingville, N.Y.

    I feel compelled to reply to an article which appeared in the Jan. 12 News Transcript by staff writer Clare Marie Celano. It refers to the ongoing problem of illegal immigration in Freehold. The comparison by Gavrielle Gemma and Alejandro Abarca, members of the group Casa Freehold, to the residents of Farmingville, Long Island, N.Y.,…

  • Appointments are directly related to who is in charge

    If the mayors of Marlboro and Manal-apan are angered at the outrageous increases currently announced by the municipal sewer authority serving their townships, they should take steps to reform this agency by re-examining and changing the “political appointment gravy train” employed in choosing their authority officials. Appointments to this critical municipal agency rest with their…