Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Vera Mae McCloud
Mrs. McCloud, 81, of Lakewood, died July 1, 2008, at Ocean Medical Center in Brick. She was predeceased by her husband, Willie J. Mc- Cloud Sr. Mrs. McCloud is survived by her son, Willie J. McCloud Jr.; three daughters and a son-in-law, Willie Mae Dorsey, Pamela Wilson- McCloud, and the Rev. Imogene Cross-Best and Rogellio…
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School choice is not a guarantee of success
The letter from the president of the New Jersey Taxpayers association ("Support School Choice and Keep Tax Dollars," Tri-Town News, July 10, 2008), which attacks the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) for opposing the "scholarship" (voucher) program being considered in New Jersey requires a response. The suggestion that the head of the NJEA is in…
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Time for education assoc. to reconsider its public relations position
I read with great interest … and disappointment … the antics of the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) in their recent picketing of the congressional offices of state Sen. Jennifer Beck in Red Bank, as well as state Sen. Joseph Kyrillos (Middletown) and state Sen. Sean Kean (Wall Township), all Republicans, in protest of the…
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They’ve got a ‘hotline,’ but nobody ever answers
GREG BEAN Coda Hold on while I dust off this trophy I’ve got sitting on my desk. OK, here we go, and if we could have a drum roll, please. The Greg Bean Corporate Jackass of the Month Award goes to (pregnant pause) CONRAIL! I know I’ve been pretty hard on a few companies in…
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Nothing as scary as a middle-of-the-night call
LORI CLINCH Are We There Yet? In another week or so, I’ll be 44 years old. That age might bother the youthful. Yet, I like this time in my life. You see, my knees may not bend as smoothly as they used to, and my face is filling with wrinkles, but for the first time…
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Eileen Stotz Dietzel
Mrs. Dietzel, 78, of Surf City, died June 7, 2008, at home. Born in Newark, she grew up in the Lakewood area and resided in North Brunswick for several years. She was a receptionist at her husband’s office, Herbert A. Dietzel, M.D., North Brunswick, for 15 years, retiring in 1996. Prior to that, she was…
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Margaret A. Alleruzzo
Mrs. Alleruzzo, 85, of East Brunswick, died June 6, 2008, in Sunrise Assisted Living, East Brunswick. Her husband, Lester, died in 2004. Surviving are two sons and daughters-in-law, Paul and Mindy of Mason, Ohio, and Robert and Gina of Howell; three daughters and two sonsin law, Margaret and Herman Bartel of Spotswood, Mary Nelson of…
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Willie Frank Ivory
Mr. Ivory, 74, a resident of Freehold for more than 50 years, died June 28, 2008, at home. He was a U.S. Army Signal Corps veteran of the Korean War and was last employed by the Millstone Township Department of Public Works. Surviving are his five children, Michael of Birmingham, Ala., Lydia of Freehold, Debra…
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Henry G. Daum
Mr. Daum, 63, a resident of Freehold Township for the past 38 years, died June 29, 2008, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. While at Rutgers University he was named an All American Lightweight Football player. Mr. Daum went on to become a landscape architect and co-founder and president of Four Seasons Nursery and Landscape…
