Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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School officials decline offer for ground spraying
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON – Administrators in the Jackson School District declined an offer from the township to conduct ground spraying for gypsy moths. Municipal officials made an offer to use the chemical Talstar on areas near the schools. “Our (schools’) sensitive areas are covered by what the state is doing, and that…
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Odyssey students raising funds for world finals
BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer HOWELL – Dressed in their tailormade T-shirts sporting the medallions they received by placing second in their division at the New Jersey state finals of the Odyssey of the Mind academic competition were the fifth-grade members of the Odyssey Eclipse team. Alongside them were the fourth-grade Chemistry Cats, who also…
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Bill would support fight against Lyme disease
As president of LymeQuest Support Group and Advocacy Project, I have watched with sadness as Lyme disease has devastated our communities and our state, disabled countless victims and destroyed lives. Many innocent children suffer and lose their childhood from the ravages of this disease, which can cause cardiac, neurological, musculoskeletal and psychiatric manifestations. Many adults…
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Auditor reviewing Jackson school budget for 2008-09
Voters’ rejection of $64M tax levy leaves final plan in doubt BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON – An auditor is in the process of reviewing the budget that the Jackson Board of Education has proposed for the 2008-09 school year. Voters in the April 15 school election rejected a $64 million general fund local…
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Residents forced to accept chemical spraying
“… Bt is a chemical that you and your children will now be ingesting for years to come.” It is outrageous and unbelievable to me that people would rather protect the health of trees than the health of their families. Are people so shortsighted that they will accept the danger of a chemical being sprayed…
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Pupils make a difference for SPCA animal shelter
BY BARI FAYE SIEGEL Correspondent “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” HOWELL – Ann Marie Menhart’s fifth-graders at the Newbury School may never have heard this famous quotation by Margaret Mead. They may never have heard of the famed…
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Litter on streets of Howell is embarrassing
The township of Howell is becoming an embarrassment with its litterstrewn streets. Every day when I leave my house and sit at the light on Lanes Mill Road and Route 9 I could scream. The garbage, mostly plastic bags from Wal-Mart, are all over the property next to the Southard School and continue across Route…
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Approval of another deer hunt is new low for Board of Recreation
“Furthermore, hunting is a failed experiment and does not reduce human/deer conflicts … Can anyone say that we now have fewer human/deer conflicts as a result of this hunt?” The Monmouth County Park System and the Board of Recreation Commissioners are once again disregarding public opinion on the deer hunt in our county parks. Most…
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Parents of youth sports players must chill out
AColts Neck resident avoided the possibility of a jail term when he was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge in connection with an assault that occurred at a youth football game last fall. The man’s fellow residents will have to decide for themselves whether the punishment he stands to receive fits his crime.…
