Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Tell residents everything about effects of Dimilin

    Guest Column KATHLEEN GRAY Iam concerned that only certain facts are being presented to the people of Jackson in regard to the use of Dimilin and what its effect would be on the people of Jackson and the environment. In the Jan. 3 Tri-Town News article “Council Members Report Findings About Dimilin,” there was some…

  • Zane T. Becker

    Mrs. Becker, 89, of Howell, died Dec. 26, 2007, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. She was born in New York City and had resided in Freehold before moving to Howell 54 years ago. Prior to retiring, Mrs. Becker was employed by Precision Filaments Inc., Freehold. She was also known throughout the area as a…

  • Town meetings should start at appointed time

    My wife, Bobbie, and I had decided to attend the Jackson Township Council meeting on Dec. 26 because we were upset with some of the problems that have beset our community in the last two years. The published time by the council for the start of the public part of the meeting was 7:30 p.m.…

  • Mildred “Millie” L. Dougherty

    Mrs. Dougherty, 83, of Freehold, died Dec. 31, 2007. Born in East Boston on Sept. 1, 1924, she had lived in Port Washington, N.Y., and Brewer,Maine, before moving toMorris Plains. She moved to Colts Neck in 1961 and then to Freehold in 1974.Mrs. Dougherty was an operator for the New England Telephone Co. prior to…

  • Red State/Blue State

    All tuckered out from the holiday ‘debates’ DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson – a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist – and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers. Dear Greg: The holidays are over and this Red State Republican/conservative is one…

  • Philomena Mirarchi Graziano

    Mrs. Graziano, 94, of Lakewood, died Dec. 20, 2007, at St Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center, Long Branch. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she resided in Long Branch and Florida before relocating to Lakewood in 1991. Before her retirement, Mrs. Graziano was a seamstress with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. She was a parishioner…

  • Mayor Seda’s tenure has been a disaster for Jackson’s environment

    Jackson Mayor Mark Seda opted out of the state’s gypsy moth spraying program (in 2007) and then was shocked when angry residents started calling his office to complain about their dying trees. Then, he directs township employees to fill in a sensitive wetlands area and is surprised when state Department of Environmental Protection halts the…

  • Coda

    No town meeting ’til you fill out the proper form GREG BEAN As the captain said to the convict road gang in “Cool Hand Luke,” the movie that put me off hard-boiled eggs for more than a decade, “What we got here is … failure to communicate.” That’s what happened in Gov. Jon Corzine’s office…

  • Richard T. Pelphrey

    Mr. Pelphrey, 57, of Kinnelon, died Dec. 17, 2007, at home. Born in Chandler, N.C., he was raised in Riverdale and had lived in Oak Ridge and Howell before moving to Kinnelon in 1993. Mr. Pelphrey, a 1976 graduate of Georgetown College in Georgetown, Ky., was a salesman in northern New Jersey his entire life.…