Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Education center’s entry road and trails need immediate attention
The Forest Resource Education Center at 370 East Veterans Highway in Jackson bills itself as a service to state residents, “teaching and practicing forest stewardship.” Yet visitors to this facility should be wary. In order to access this site, they must negotiate one of the most impassable, unmaintained and downright dangerous roads in the state.…
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Racetrack slot machines would provide much-needed revenue
What are the issues that matter to New Jersey residents? Time and again, voters have supported open space initiatives on the ballot. In these difficult economic conditions, new revenue sources are desperately needed. Why then, is the current administration refusing to consider the installation of video lottery terminals (VLTs), or slots, at the state’s race…
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Oyster Creek an accident waiting to happen
Anuclear plant reactor tries to safely contain more radioactivity than is in the fallout of 1,000 Hiroshima atom bombs. The Oyster Creek spent fuel rod pool contains much more deadly radioactivity. The pool has a flimsy roof that could easily be penetrated to cause a fuming meltdown. Who would have thought that the World Trade…
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Public is invited to attend Rutgers Day on April 25
In recognition of Rutgers University’s unique relationship with the people of New Jersey, we are opening our doors to the public for the first Rutgers Day on April 25. In difficult economic times, it is more important than ever to connect the university’s resources to those we serve. On Rutgers Day, all New Jerseyans are…
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Oyster Creek’s new lease on life
The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission handed Ocean County residents something to keep them up nights for the next 20 years by relicensing the oldest nuclear plant in the United States. The Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township now has official permission to run until April 9, 2029, courtesy of the NRC’s decision on…
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Family vacation: the good the bad and the flat ugly
Coda • GREG BEAN When I was a kid, family vacations were a special level of hell reserved for the worst miscreants imaginable. And it wasn’t the Hades we learned about in Bible class, the kind of place you go after a long lifetime of misdeeds. Nope, family vacations were a more immediate form of…
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Mama tried, but he still loves country
Are We There Yet? • LORI CLINCH Our young Huey has a great love for music. He researches it, sings it and has been known to play it at house-shaking volume, which has me sounding like my own loving mother: “Turn that dang thing down!” But Huey has always had what I thought to be…
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Teens alleged to have sold counterfeit bills in school
COLTS NECK — Two Colts Neck High School students have been charged with forgery after allegedly making counterfeit money and allegedly selling the counterfeit bills to other students at the school. The students were charged on April 13. Colts Neck police Detective Sgt. Joe Whitehead said police are still trying to determine how the two…
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Pupils link up on project
JACKSON — A wiki page collaboration between the St. Aloysius School in Jackson and the Bayhead School in Bayhead has joined pupils at both locations with a focus on reading, language arts and history. A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify…
