Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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NEHS junior earns honor
PLUMSTED — A New Egypt High School student who attended the 2009 University of Pennsylvania Model Congress Conference (PENNMC) has received an honorable mention award for his performance as a member of the White Senate Judiciary Committee Daniel Malinconico, a junior at the high school, attended the event in Philadelphia from Feb. 26 to March…
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Voters should cast their ballot for change on high school board
This summer, we have witnessed one of the largest academic and economic frauds committed upon the Freehold Regional High School District — by employees no less. Five employees have been identified receiving tuition reimbursement and yearly pay raises for having obtained bogus online doctoral degrees from an unaccredited entity known as Breyer State University. What…
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Council recognizes teachers
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — Are you smarter than a sixth-grader? That is the question some students from the Jackson School District recently asked senior citizens at the Jackson Senior Center. “Not too long ago some sixth-graders had a program over at the senior center,” Township Council President Mike Kafton told members of…
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Margaret Osmond Anghelone
Mrs. Anghelone, 55, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died Feb. 13, 2009, at home. She was the owner of O.J.O. Trucking Co., Parlin. She was predeceased by her parents, Otto and Blanche Osmond, and by a sister, Susan Osmond, and a brother, Richard Osmond. Surviving are her husband, Philip Anghelone; four brothers, Gerald Osmond,…
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George F. Stillwell
Mr. Stillwell, 80, of Lakewood died Feb. 22, 2009, at Atlantic Coast Rehab & Health in Lakewood. Born in Cream Ridge, he was a resident of New Egypt before moving to Lakewood a few years ago. Mr. Stillwell was a retired crane operator with Delaval Turbine in Trenton. He was predeceased by his wife, Jean…
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Alice M. Huff
Mrs. Huff, 85, of Forksville, Pa., died Feb. 13, 2009, at Darway Nursing Home. She had been a teacher at several schools in the New Jersey school systems, including the Upper Freehold Township School. Mrs. Huff was predeceased by her sister, Doris Mitteer of Montoursville, Pa. She is survived by her husband of 62 years,…
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Florence Walthers
Mrs. Walthers, 88, of Hazlet, died Feb. 25, 2009, at home. She was a former nurses’ aide at St. Luke’s Hospital, Long Island, N.Y. She was predeceased by her husband, Harold Walthers, in 1981. She is survived by two sons and one daughter-in-law, James and Sue Walthers of Howell, and Patrick Walthers of Hazlet; and…
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Patricia A. Bailey
Ms. Bailey, 68, of Manalapan, died March 10, 2009, at Bayshore Healthcare Center, Holmdel. She was born in York, Pa., and had resided in Manalapan since 1964. Surviving are two daughters, Joan Ackerman, Jackson, and Patricia Jordan, New Mexico; a brother, Paul Michael Akers, and a sister, Barbara Fegley, both of Utah; and a grandson.…
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Reader says bring back the Ford Ranchero — say what?
Coda • GREG BEAN Once again, my readers have come through. When I ask them to respond to a column, they respond. Man, do they respond. A few weeks ago, after writing a column about how I thought the American auto industry could save itself by reintroducing the cars that made it famous — like…
