Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Pupils’ knowledge on display at Goetz Academic Bowl

    JACKSON — More than 600 students from schools in Ocean and Monmouth counties matched wits at the recent Academic Bowl held at Jackson’s Goetz Middle School. Teacher Samantha Metzger said 2009 marked the 16th edition of the event. Metzger coordinated the Academic Bowl with teacher Joyce Pacelli. Pupils in grades five through eight took part…

  • FRHSD administrators seek budget’s approval

    Voters in the eight municipalities that make up the Freehold Regional High School District will be asked to approve a $112.8 million general fund tax levy in the April 21 school election. The tax levy will support the $180.1 million budget the district’s Board of Education has adopted for the 2009-10 school year. An additional…

  • Hunting bills spark anger in local residents

    We are angry and extremely opposed to bill S802/A1669, which will allow hunting on Sunday with bow and arrow, five months out of the year (mid-September to late February) in wildlife management areas. Presently, bow hunters are allowed six days out of the week to hunt. Now they want seven days a week to hunt…

  • Every resident’s situation is his own personal agenda

    In response to a letter to the editor from Paul Mayerowitz on the issue of revaluation (“Residents, Not Town, Need to Act on Their Own Behalf,” Tri-Town News, April 9), I must disagree with him. Of course no time is the right time to subject residents to a revaluation of their property. Especially now with…

  • Falling property values threaten fairness of tax system

    It is not surprising that struggling New Jersey homeowners are looking for any shelter they can find as an economic storm batters the state. A savvy few have found some relief by exercising their rights to go before local boards of taxation and have property values reduced to reflect the prices of today’s depressed real…

  • Herbert Greenberg

    Mr. Greenberg, 81, of Lakewood, died March 6, 2009, at Leisure Park Health Center in Lakewood. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., he had resided in Manasquan and Manalapan before moving to Lakewood. A World War II Navy veteran, Mr. Greenberg was an executive vice president of ShopRite and owned the Clean-Rite Dry Cleaning stores in…

  • Elizabeth P. Magnussen

    Mrs. Magnussen, 84, a resident of Lakewood for the past 14 years, died March 12, 2009, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. She was employed as a legal secretary with Bethlehem Steel in New York City and Pennsylvania for 25 years before retiring. Her husband, Harold Magnussen, died in 1999. Mrs. Magnussen is survived by her…

  • Development fee providing money for affordable homes

    We agree with state Sen. Jennifer Beck’s recent comments that New Jersey needs more housing people can afford. However, Sen. Beck (R-Monmouth and Mercer) does not propose to do anything new or different that will help build these homes or create jobs. Instead, she proposes that New Jersey return to failed and unfair policies of…

  • Poet speaks at Georgian Court

    LAKEWOOD — Former United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins presented a free poetry reading at Georgian Court University to students and the public on March 31. The event, which was held in the Casino building on the Lakewood campus, was arranged by Mary Chinery, associate dean of arts and humanities and sciences and mathematics, and…