Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Foundation can help residents obtain public information
As alluded to by former Greater Media Newspapers executive editor Greg Bean in a recent column, the New Jersey Foundation for Open Government has taken the lead in a number of issues to increase transparency, accountability, honesty and democracy in government at all levels by defending and expanding public access to government records and meetings.…
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Theresa C. Hasner
Mrs. Hasner, 68, of Long Branch, died Aug. 16, 2009, at St. Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center, Long Branch. She was a supply technician at Fort Monmouth, Eatontown, for several years. Mrs. Hasner was predeceased by a son, Ralph A. Hasner Jr., in 2007; and a daughter, Melinda Jaffe, in 2007. She is survived…
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Anonymous defamers should be very afraid
Coda • GREG BEAN I’ve mentioned more than once over the last few years that there’s a day of reckoning coming for the cowardly slime-puppies who post anonymous libels on some of the blog sites around here (Are you listening, da Truth Squad?). And it looks like that day might be coming sooner than the…
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Marie Schembri
Mrs. Schembri, 74, of Old Bridge, died Aug. 1, 2009. She was employed at Bell Labs, Holmdel, for a few years before becoming the manager at Suzy Q, Matawan. Surviving are her husband, Charles Schembri; three daughters, Marie Pavelchak, and her husband, Alan, of East Brunswick, Cindy McLavish, and her husband, Dominick, of Howell and…
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Clean energy can be our 21st-century moon shot
Guest Column • Doug O’Malley Alot of heat — and not so much light — has been made about the U.S. House vote earlier this summer to pass the American Clean Energy and SecurityAct, which will start to move this country to a clean energy economy. A bipartisan majority of New Jersey’s Congressional delegation showed…
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Carrie B. Newell
Mrs. Newell, 50, of Howell, died Aug.16, 2009, at University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia. She was raised in Howell and lived in Tottenville, Staten Island, before returning to Howell in 2003. Mrs. Newell, who received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Georgian Court University, was a special education teacher at Freehold Township High School, where…
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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…
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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…
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Friends deserve thanks for library sculpture
I want to express my thanks to the Friends of the Library who recently dedicated "Two Children on a Bench," a beautiful bronze sculpture which now sits next to the gazebo in front of our public library. Murray Blasz, current president, along with Judy and Roger Friend, Estelle and Steve Berke and Linda Lafer, put…
