Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Youngster did a good deed with donation

    The Jackson Women of Today’s food pantry serves a diverse group of individuals and families. Factors such as layoffs, low pay, disability, illness, injuries, domestic violence and divorce are just some of the reasons why some people are forced to decide between paying their bills or buying food. While we all can fall on hard…

  • Tenure is no boon to N.J. educational system

    The newest addition to Gov. Chris Christie’s busy political agenda happily calls for limiting the already outrageous salary compensations for school superintendents. They illustrate an arrogance within educational bureaucracies in New Jersey as are the political and union influences for supporting tenure for school teachers. Dramatic changes by Gov. Christie’s educational agendas and budget demands…

  • Jackson resident disappointed that he could not get left-turn arrow

    It is with much sadness and profound regret that I write this letter with regard to the New Jersey Department of Transportation’s (DOT) refusal to install a green left-turn arrow light at the intersection of County Line Road and Route 9 in Lakewood. For more than three years I have lobbied so very hard to…

  • Will you pledge life, fortune, honor for America?

    GUEST COLUMN RICHARD A. PENDER “And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” Most people concentrate on that portion of the Declaration of Independence that gives them something: “life, liberty and the…

  • on campus •••

    Daniel Kulakowski, son of Nora and Michael Kulakowski of Jackson, was selected to receive a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Daniel is a student at the City University of New York Graduate School, where he is pursing a doctorate and majoring in ethnobotany.

  • From another angle, things aren’t as bad as they looked

    CODA GREG BEAN I’ve recently agreed to do some volunteer work for Sylvia’s Children, a charitable organization that provides financial and other support for 1,000 impoverished youngsters (200 of them orphans who live on-site) at the Mbiriizi School in Uganda. Run by Sylvia Allen, who’s well known in this area as the founder and owner…

  • Howell K-8 deserves progressive leadership

    At the July 21 Howell K-8 School District Board of Education meeting, board member Tim O’Brien was proposing that the board look at making internal operating improvements, and he suggested that the board form a brainstorming committee to develop ways to improve internal infrastructure and efficiencies and eliminate waste. The board president, Mary Cerretani, responded,…

  • Give New Jersey residents a chance to answer ballot question

    Currently the people of a municipality have no tool in their tool box to stop an increase or give a decrease to property taxation. But in November 1991 the people of Point Pleasant Beach in Ocean County voted to have such a tool. By a vote of 1,106 to 380 the following question passed: “Shall…