Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Author visits local school

    LAKEWOOD — Bilingual author and illustrator Lulu Delacre recently presented “Celebrate With Latino Songs and Stories” to a large audience representing Lakewood families at the Clifton Avenue Grade School. While sharing her books and life experiences, she stressed the importance of keeping one’s heritage and language. Delacre invited the children to join her on stage…

  • Teachers will be recognized

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer PLUMSTED — Two New Egypt Primary School teachers will receive recognition from the New Jersey School Boards Association for creating an innovative special-education program. Jennifer Miller and Jennifer Gilbert have designed a program called Learning Tools, which focuses on helping to explain all of the adaptive equipment that specialeducation children…

  • In Long Branch, they don’t need no stinkin’ commission

    Coda • GREG BEAN Are your town elders being bothered by pesky members of the local Historical Commission who don’t want to tear down historic buildings so a new Starbucks can go up (attention, Milltown)? Then you ought to take a lesson from Long Branch Mayor Adam Schneider and his rubber stamp City Council (with…

  • Catherine E. McCabe

    Ms. McCabe, 52, of Cream Ridge, formerly of Freehold and Jackson, died April 5, 2009, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. She was a veterinary technician for 25 years. Ms. Mc- Cabe is survived by her companion, Cirillo Domingues of Cream Ridge; a son, Philip Lowenburg, and his girlfriend, Tara Silke, of Jackson; two daughters,…

  • Wilhelmina Fernandini Weckley

    Mrs. Weckley, 83, of New Brunswick, died April 14, 2009, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was a foreign correspondent at McGraw-Hill Company, Hightstown, for more than 20 years, retiring in 1990. She is survived by her husband, Charles D. Weckley; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Roberto and Wendy Fernandini of Jackson, and…

  • Vincent Passarelli

    Mr. Passarelli, 82, of Freehold Township and formerly of Old Bridge, died April 18, 2009, at Bartley Health Care, Jackson, He was the owner and operator of Deli Delite in Old Bridge from 1964 to 1990. Mr. Passarelli was predeceased by three sisters, Rose, Anne and Florence. Surviving are his wife of 59 years, Dolores…

  • RCAs did not effectively address housing need

    There is a critical shortage of housing throughout New Jersey, making it impossible for hundreds of thousands of working families to live within reasonable distances of their jobs. This predicament leads directly to increased congestion, pollution and time spent on the roads for all of us, and a decrease in everyone’s quality of life. The…

  • Resident says Jackson board is wrong to charge for student parking

    The worst kind of school bullying is Board of Education bullying. The Jackson board is shaking down our students for their lunch money. The board is planning on charging only the students to park at the town’s two high schools. This is blatantly unfair. This is not a question on whether or not the students…

  • Relicensing Oyster Creek nuclear plant was a mistake

    It has been a crisis month for Exelon since federal regulators jumped the gun and relicensed the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey until 2029. Failure of a main transformer led to the shutdown of the reactor. That followed the recent discovery of high levels of radioactive tritium contamination at the site. Nuclear Regulatory…