Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Facts show that New Jersey teachers make a good salary

    Sandra Talarico’s salary defense (“Managing Editor’s Column Is Going After the Wrong Individuals,” Tri-Town News, Letters to the Editor, March 4) requires a response. The intent is not to defend Greater Media Newspapers Managing Editor Mark Rosman, the person Ms. Talarico referred to in regard to his column on the need to cut educational costs.…

  • Money for facilities upgrade was put in place years ago

    With regard to a recent article that was published in the Tri-Town News and titled “Sides Play Hardball Over Softball Upgrades,” I am curious to know if (Jackson Township Council President) Mike Kafton truly believes his own statements? To say that Jackson Mayor Mike Reina is “undermining planned improvements for a girls softball facility” is…

  • Aid cut will lead to tough choices

    JACKSON — Administrators in the Jackson School District were still working earlier this week on a budget for the 2010- 11 school year. The Board of Education was expected to introduce a tentative budget at a meeting on March 23. No information about the 2010- 11 budget was available prior to that meeting, which occurred…

  • It’s gonna be expensive, no matter how you define it

    Coda • GREG BEAN As former President William Jefferson Clinton famously explained during his 1998 grand jury testimony in the Monica Lewinski affair, “it depends on what the meaning of is is.” In other words, in politics, it all depends on your definition. We’ve got a little of that going on in New Jersey these…

  • New youth advisory group to be council’s ‘eyes & ears’

    HOWELL — Applications for membership on the fledgling Youth Township Government advisory committee will be accepted through April 16, Township Councilman William J. Gotto announced. “We are actively looking for a very large number of participants,” Gotto said this week. Howell’s newest youth program will have three advisers — Gotto; resident Robert Nicastro; and Township…

  • Children enthralled by variety of speakers

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — Representatives from dozens of occupations recently spent time at the Rosenauer Elementary School and gave the students a program they will remember for a long time. The event was organized and coordinated by the Rosenauer PTA, under the direction of PTA President Alex Fasoli. “We try really hard…

  • Agnes T. Orawiec

    Mrs. Orawiec, 86, of Jackson, formerly of Toms River, died Feb. 24, 2010, at Bartley HealthCare Center, Jackson. She was predeceased by her husband, Frank, in 2002, and three siblings, Charles, Irene and Emma. Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, Frank and Stephanie of Monroe Township; a daughter, Barbara Orawiec of Toms River; a brother…

  • Morris Shainberg

    Mr. Shainberg, 88, of Howell, formerly of Freehold Township, died March 13, 2010, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. Mr. Shainberg was a public accountant and served as treasurer of the Surrey Downs Men’s Club in Howell. He was predeceased by a son, Stuart Shainberg.…

  • Leonard T. Benedetto

    Mr. Benedetto, 83, of The Orchards at Bartley, Jackson, died Feb. 23, 2010. He was born in Cairo, N.Y., and moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., with his mother and brothers before enlisting in the U.S. Army during World War II. Mr. Benedetto was a jewelry business executive for over 40 years. Surviving are his daughters, Sandra,…