Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Three scholarships available to students entering college
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…
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Jennie Ammiano
Mrs. Ammiano, 90, of Holiday City, died Dec. 28, 2009, at home. She had lived in the Forest Hill section of Newark until moving to Holiday City in 2003. Mrs. Ammiano was a member of the Belleville Senior Thursday Club, the Clairol Club and the Lacey Senior Club. She was predeceased by her husband, Frank…
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Joseph M. Pate
Mr. Pate, 55, of Howell, died Jan. 4, 2010, of complications related to Parkinson’s disease. He was an opera singer and salesman. Mr. Pate was a 32nd-degree Mason in the Valley of Trenton Lodge, a vigil member of the Order of the Arrow in Monmouth Council of Boy Scouts, a volunteer blacksmith at Allaire State…
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Angelo “Sonny” V. Pesce
Mr. Pesce, 79, of Farmingdale, died Dec. 29, 2009, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. He retired as the chief financial officer/controller for the brokerage firm of Quick & Reilly in New York City. Mr. Pesce was also a member of the Howell Senior Citizens Club. Surviving are his wife of 53 years, Beatrice; two…
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Lillian J. Carson
Mrs. Carson, 84, of Lakewood, died Jan. 10, 2010, at St. Barnabas Hospice at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. Before her retirement, she was the chief switchboard operator at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, for several years. Mrs. Carson was predeceased by her former husband, Samuel B. Spagnoli; a brother, Thomas; and three sisters, Mary,…
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Abraham Kapulskey
Mr. Kapulskey, 75, of Jackson, died Jan. 31, 2010, at Bartley Healthcare, Jackson. He was born in Havana, Cuba, and had lived in Newark, Manalapan, Freehold and Florida before returning to New Jersey in 2008. He was a U.S. Army veteran, having served during the Korean War. Mr. Kapulskey was one of the original founding…
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Dorothy Lamb Bishof
Mrs. Bishof of Tinton Falls, and formerly of Howell, died Dec. 20, 2009. She was a service representative at New Jersey Bell for several years. She was predeceased by two brothers, Charles and William Lamb. She is survived by her husband of 51 years, Paul D. Bishof; three daughters and one son-in-law, Nancy Bishof, M.D.,…
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Let’s keep working for health care solution
There is much to feel encouraged about regarding the president’s State of the Union address, but the president and Congress have their work cut out for them. Millions of older Americans face enormous challenges, many of whom work very hard to build nest eggs only to see them crack due to soaring health care costs.…
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Mary A. Ricca
Miss Ricca, 91, of North Brunswick, died Jan. 15, 2010, at the Francis E. Parker Memorial Home, Piscataway. She was a production worker at Revlon Inc., Edison, for 27 years, retiring in 1984. She was predeceased by three brothers, Alfred, Larry and Joseph Ricca; and a sister, Rose Rugel. Miss Ricca is survived by a…
