Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Jackson teacher will be honored by Chabad

    Two local women who have fostered traditional Jewish values in their homes and communities while achieving success in demanding careers will be honored at Chabad of Western Monmouth County’s 23rd annual Jewish Women’s Day program on March 7. The event will begin at 11 a.m. at the Morganville Fire House, Tennent Road, Morganville section of…

  • Myrna Beth Schulman

    Mrs. Schulman, 68, of Jackson, formerly of Middletown, died Feb. 1, 2010, at Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach, Fla. Prior to her retirement, Mrs. Schulman was a supervisor of medical records at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, for more than 25 years. Surviving are her husband, Paul; two sons and daughters-inlaw, Aaron and Robin…

  • Aida J. Doolittle

    Mrs. Doolittle, 78, of Old Bridge, formerly of Spotswood, died Feb. 18, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Her husband, Paul Doolittle, died in 2001. Surviving are three daughters, Linda Wnorowski, and her husband, Ken, of Jackson, Cynthia Bootier, and her husband, Roger, and Jane Doolittle, all of South River; a son,…

  • Michael Faresich

    Mr. Faresich, 96, of Howell, died Feb. 14, 2010. He was born in Chiusi, Italy, and came to the United States in 1942. He worked for the maintenance department in the Hudson County Park Commission, Jersey City, until his retirement. Mr. Faresich then worked for the Freehold Township Police Department for 15 years, retiring in…

  • On Campus

    Michael Laffan of Jackson graduated from York College of Pennsylvania, York, Pa., on Dec. 22 with a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice. Elizabeth A. Conrad of Jackson, a sophomore zoology major, has been named to the deans’ list for the fall semester at the State University of New York College at Oswego.

  • On Campus

    Hollie Ann Hubbs, son of Tina and Harold Hubbs of Howell, has been placed on the dean’s list for the fall semester at High Point University, High Point, N.C. The 2009 graduate of Howell High School is pursuing a degree in entrepreneurship. James R. Shinn of Jackson was named to the fall dean’s list at…

  • School districts face a moment of truth

    In the News • MARK ROSMAN Ithink that I know what our local school superintendents and business administrators are going through now as they prepare their budgets for the 2010-11 school year.A recent series of events at Greater Media Newspapers placed me in the unfamiliar position of developing a budget for our entire editorial department…

  • Scholarships available

    PLUMSTED — The New Jersey League of Municipalities, representing all 566 municipalities in the state, has announced that three scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each will be awarded to high school seniors who will be entering college in the fall of 2010. Public, private and home-schooled students are all eligible to apply for the…

  • No jobs, but at least we have open space

    Guest Column • Jeff Kneler This is a response to Greg Bean’s recent column “Preserving Farm for Open Space Would Be a Winner.” Our state and others are like a beehive with honeycombs of municipalities, each an integral part of the cumulative prosperity that feeds the hive. When “bees” could no longer produce, as open…