Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Rotary members tell pupils how they help

    JACKSON — Third-grade pupils at the Elms Elementary School are all smiles. Not only did the youngsters recently find out that the longest word in the dictionary is “smiley” — because that word has a “mile” between the first and last letters — but the children also received their own dictionary to keep, compliments of…

  • DPW was hampered by prior administrations

    Last week, Judith Carletta wrote that “Jackson dropped the ball. Tried saving money by not plowing and salting the roads” (“Explanations Sound Like Excuses to One Resident,” Tri- Town News, Letters to the Editor, Jan. 28). She obviously does not understand the budget process. The funding for snow removal was based on history and prepared…

  • Preserving farm for open space would be a winner

    Coda • GREG BEAN When we bought our old house in East Brunswick in the fall of 1997, one of the biggest selling points was the fact that we could look out our living room window to the Foerter Farm across the road. The farm — a 30-acre parcel between Riva Avenue and Farrington Lake…

  • Americans cherish the right to speak out about elections

    We do not burn books. It is as simple as that. Greater Media Newspapers columnistGreg Bean’s article castigating the recent Supreme Court decision Citizens United rested on a principle as old as the Republic itself. The government cannot censor materials published by American citizens, no matter how rich or powerful they are. This is as…

  • For the Record

    A sentence in the article “Senator’s Bill Proposes Putting End to COAH” that was published in the Tri-Town News on Jan. 28 should have stated that the bill (S-1) proposed by Sen. Raymond Lesniak would also do away with affordable housing obligations that have gone unmet for decades in some towns. The sentence as published…

  • Voters were in no mood to OK school projects

    In the News • MARK ROSMAN The phrase “the voters have spoken” certainly rang loud in New Jersey on Jan. 26. On that date, school districts around the state, including two school districts served by Greater Media Newspapers, put questions before the public and saw them soundly rejected. I am quite certain that the nation’s…

  • On Campus

    Wayne Holmes, of the New Egypt section of Plumsted, recently received a degree in visual arts education from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Samantha Simone, of Howell, received a degree in childhood education for grades one through six from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Rebecca Gifford, of…

  • School program to be seen on NJN

    PLUMSTED — Young artists who attend the New Egypt Primary School will be featured on the New Jersey Network on April 12, April 17, May 10 and May 15. A crew from NJN’s “Classroom Closeup, NJ” will be visiting the school on Jan. 14 to tape a story, “Young Leonardos,” for the television program. “I…