Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • On Campus

    West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va., has named the following local residents to its dean’s list for the fall semester: Stephanie Dobbin, of Howell, a fashion design and merchandising major; Brittney Goad, of Howell, a pre-business and economics major; Rita Ciafardini, of Lakewood, a pre-elementary education major; Joseph McCawley, of Jackson, an accounting major; and…

  • Jackson board honors teachers of the year

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Melissa O’Keefe JACKSON — They are creative, passionate and inspiring. They are considered to be the very best in each of their schools. They are Jackson’s teachers of the year. The school district’s outstanding teachers were recognized at the Feb. 16 meeting of the Jackson Board of Education. The board’s…

  • Public invited to event at World War II Center

    Brookdale Community College’s Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution will host a 65th Anniversary Commemoration on Feb. 27. I will be providing a very special battle scene diorama to accompany Gilmon Brooks’ recollections of his Marine landing on Iwo Jima. Gil served when the Marines were a segregated branch of the service…

  • Nonprofits continue effort to help veteran

    Arecent article in your newspaper talked about Operation One of Our Own (Jan. 28, 2010), in which several Jackson nonprofit organizations are combining fundraising efforts to help a disabled Jackson Iraq war veteran. As the article described, the groups are collectively known as the 501 Association and the groups involved are the Kiwanis Club of…

  • Think before casting your vote in Jackson school election in April

    The defeat of the recent $29 million referendum has exposed many faults in the Jackson Township School District. Despite being overwhelmingly denied by voters, the district vowed in a recent newspaper article that they will continue to try to force this measure. This is a very dangerous and reckless approach for our children and we…

  • News of the weird: Tiger, VW, Olympics and more

    Coda • GREG BEAN So much to write about this week, so little space. Some weeks, I don’t know what I’m going to write about until I sit down at the computer on deadline day. Other weeks, there’s so much to write about I’d need 10 columns to do the subject matter justice. So, in…

  • Candace Widner

    Candace Widner, 5, of Howell, died Feb. 5, 2010, at home after a courageous battle with cancer. Candace was predeceased by her paternal grandparents, Kenneth and Patricia, and a maternal grandfather, William Vineyard. Surviving are her parents, Andrew and Margaret Widner; a brother, Matthew; her paternal grandmother, Katherine and her husband, Benjamin Suchcicki; five uncles;…

  • Ralph W. Ruggiero

    Mr. Ruggiero, 71, of Jackson, died Feb. 1, 2010, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born in Union City, he had resided in Manalapan for 30 years before moving to Jackson four years ago. Prior to retiring, Mr. Ruggiero was in the automobile business as well as a local real estate investor. He is survived…

  • New Jersey racetracks need slots right now

    However you look at it, the state of New Jersey must allow the installation of slot machines at our horse racing tracks. We must catch up with surrounding state competition and install these slot machines at once or face doing nothing and losing our state’s horsemen’s futures, open space, farmland and other agriculture jobs, revenue…