Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Discovering family history, one creased letter at a time

    Coda • GREG BEAN It seems like when the kids move out, they’re never really gone because they leave so much junk behind. But at our house, it isn’t the kids who are responsible for all the accumulated archeological detritus. My wife and I save things as well. Boxes and boxes of photographs. Birthday cards.…

  • Pair of schools have deep roots in Howell

    BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer HOWELL — The Howell K-8 School District Board of Education was recently presented with a report from an architectural firm, which showed the district’s biggest liabilities to be the Ardena School, Adelphia Road, and the Southard School, Kent Road. The report prepared by Thomas S. Townes, of Focus Architecture, Pennington,…

  • Using property taxes to fund schools is wrong

    If there is injustice anywhere in the property tax system, it is not in the pricing or valuation of our homes. The tax rate will only be changed to reflect the dollar amount needed to fund future budgets anyway. The way education is funded is by far the biggest fallacy of the system. There is…

  • Thank heavens he’s back on campus

    Are We There Yet? • LORI CLINCH Despite the fact that expenditures loom on the horizon and the country is at the dawn of a great recession, we Clinches have had a very expensive week, and I wonder how we could let so much cash go without considering the ramifications. Our only defense is that…

  • A workable solution to the foreclosure crisis

    The foreclosure crisis has a workable solution that can be applied almost immediately to stop people from losing their homes because they can no longer afford to make the mortgage payments. Cooperative buy-in of the home and property by relatives and friends under agreeable arrangements for use of home and property, splitting the cost of…

  • Your Turn

    Mayor says 2009 will be a challenge Guest Column • Michael Reina For Jackson Township, 2008 was a year of changes, both bad and good. As if the economic woes facing our state and country, or the threat of looming tax hikes weren’t enough, we had to deal with the uncertainty of who would be…

  • Renee C. Tanay

    55, of Wall and formerly of Farmingdale Mrs. Tanay was born in Richmond, VA, and had lived in Farmingdale, NJ, before moving to the Allenwood Section of Wall Twp., NJ. She was a loving wife, mother, sister, aunt and friend to all. She was a member of the Manasquan United Methodist Church and an active…

  • Elizabeth A. “Betsy” Quirk

    Mrs. Quirk, 53, of Red Bank, died Nov. 25, 2008, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, following a battle with cancer. She was vice president in the corporate investment management group at the Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., New York City. She was predeceased by her parents, Edna M. and William B. Quirk. She is…

  • Patrick Roy Hoelz

    Mr. Hoelz, 46, of the Cliffwood section of Aberdeen, died Dec. 8, 2008, at home. He was a welder at Hoelz Welding Service, Jackson. He was predeceased by his father, Donald R. Hoelz. He is survived by his wife, Madeline Cervasi Hoelz; a son, Patrick R. Hoelz Jr. of South River; a daughter, Crystal M.…