Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Cathy L. Smith
Mrs. Smith, 36, of Howell, died April 28, 2010, at home after a courageous battle. She was born in Flemington and had lived in Glen Gardener prior to moving to Howell in 1998. Mrs. Smith was a nurse for Meridian Nursing & Rehabilitation at Shrewsbury for 11 years until becoming ill. She was a member…
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Nola Anne Bliss Jones
Mrs. Jones, 75, of Howell, died April 29, 2010, at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. She was born in Gillingham, Kent, England, and moved to Howell in 1968. Nola and her late husband, Derek, were dancing champions in England and opened the Arthur Murray Dance Studios on the East Coast when they arrived in the…
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Maria Isabel Villaran Quinones
Mrs. Quinones, 80, of Lakewood, died May 2, 2010. She was born in Loiza, Puerto Rico. Surviving are two sons, Ricardo Jr. and Jose Ramon; four sisters, Virginia Cartagena, Gloria Velazquez, Christina Maldonado and Elena Franco; four grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren. A funeral service was held at the Higgins Memorial Home, Freehold. Memorial donations may…
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Special ed. director offers program insights, updates
Officials hope to educate more special-needs children in-district BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — With one out of every 94 children in New Jersey diagnosed as having autism, the Jackson School District is aiming to provide the least restrictive environment for these students and others with learning disabilities. “It means a lot to me…
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Educators create book room
Sarah Carey (l) and Susan Skowronski PLUMSTED — New Egypt Primary School teachers are creating a wealth of resources. “With the recent reduction of funding, we as a school and community have to be creative about the ways we supplement funding,” said teacher Sarah Carey. “Grants are a wonderful avenue to explore.” Recognizing this and…
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Town, school board will discuss budget
PLUMSTED — The Plumsted Township Committee and the Plumsted Board of Education will meet together at the same time and have two public meetings to consider the fate of the 2010-11 school budget. On April 20, voters rejected the tax levy that was proposed by the school board to support the operation of Plumsted’s schools…
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In my day, sonny, we got numbers in a book
CODA GREG BEAN If the phone company stops printing and delivering residential white pages, as Verizon has asked regulators permission to do in New York and New Jersey, what am I going to use as a doorstop, or to raise my computer monitor an extra 3 or 4 inches? On the one hand, Verizon’s request…
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Resident upset with truck traffic on rural road
Our response to Sambol Construction’s plans are not favorable (“Sambol Plans Move to Jackson,” Tri-Town News, April 22). The residents here on Wright Debow Road in Jackson have been putting up with a lot of construction truck noise and speeding as it is. They drive on our residential back road as if they were on…
