Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • We cannot survive four more years of Corzine

    Our state cannot survive another four years of a public leader who has shown nothing but contempt for the will of the people and arrogance that knows no bounds. It is imperative that our state be freed from the disastrous and failed policies of Jon Corzine’s administration. We were promised that our state’s finances would…

  • BlueClaws out for blood

    Guest Column • Mike Moran The iPod in my head is full of expressions and long-asked questions from my parents and other adults that were thrown around when I was growing up. Sayings like “Stop that crying or I’ll give you something to cry about,” “Don’t make me get up,” “You’ll do better in school…

  • Technology upgrades will benefit FRHSD

    Six high schools ready to welcome students BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer As another summer vacation comes to a close, students all over will emerge from a laid-back state of being and don the demeanor of scholars as they enter the halls of their respective educational facilities. In other words, it’s back to school time.…

  • TNR is a misguided attempt at controlling overpopulation of cats

    The terms can be confusing — feral cats, wild cats, stray cats, domesticated cats, house cats. A feral cat is defined as an unowned and untamed domestic cat, born in the wild and without direct human contact. Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) seems like a cure for our feral-cat problems; however, this is the furthest thing from the…

  • Teacher charged in grade scheme

    COLTS NECK — A woman who taught social studies at Colts Neck High School has been charged with theft by deception in connection with an alleged scheme to charge students in return for extra credit points. In a press release issued Aug. 31, Colts Neck police said the teacher, Megan Laboy, collected more than $1,400…

  • Former reporter is new info officer

    James Quirk joins staff at FRHSD BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer There is a new yet familiar face on Pine Street in Englishtown at the administrative offices of the Freehold Regional High School District. James Quirk has started work as the public information coordinator for the FRHSD, which operates high schools in Colts Neck, Freehold…

  • Plumsted students report for new year

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer PLUMSTED — It will be back to business — school business, that is — on Sept. 8 for 1,830 students in the Plumsted K-12 School District. The school day at the New Egypt Primary School will run from 8:35 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. The school day at the Dr. Gerald…

  • Times are tough, but hang on to hope

    Many have said there is a great similarity between what this country is experiencing now and what it experienced during the 1930s and the 1940s. And well this may be. Having lived the “high” life for so many years with prosperity oozing from everyone’s pores and the ongoing effects of a warlike situation across the…

  • Marie Crone McCormick

    Mrs. McCormick, of Jackson, died Aug. 9, 2009, at Bartley Health Care, Jackson. Born in Newark, she relocated to the Bayshore area in 1953. She was a school bus attendant for the Marlboro Township Board of Education, retiring in 1999. Prior to that, she was a licensed practical nurse for several years in hospitals and…