Category: Tri-Town Opinion
-

Ambulances could be based at Jackson’s firehouses
What is the value of a life? Can it be calculated? How can anyone pose such an absurd question? I have raised this question for a specific reason. Jackson is the third largest township in New Jersey. It is approximately 100 square miles in area. However, to service this large and growing municipality we still…
-

Resident frustrated by health department official
After reading a recent article on mosquitoes and West Nile virus and that it pertained to Ocean County residents, I felt inclined to call the township with regards to a neighbor of ours who has neglected their backyard for several years. This neighbor has a swimming pool, and yes it is filled with water and…
-

Legislation should help cap school district impact on taxes
Scott Sargent must be congratulated on his excellent letter (Tri-Town News, Sept. 7) debunking Jackson Board of Education President Marvin Krakower’s asinine comments made at the Aug. 21 meeting in which Krakower clumsily attempted to paint those who criticize the current board’s (and administration’s) persistent and mounting fiscal incompetence and incontinence (and vote down budget…
-

Ideas sought to make Jackson a better place to live
The mayor and Township Council of Jackson continue to be pummeled and ravaged in the press for everything they are doing wrong. Some of these letters come from ordinary citizens. However, it would appear that many of the letters come from individuals affiliated or associated with other political entities in the township. Now don’t get…
-

Harriet L. Kemble Good
Mrs. Good, 60, of the New Egypt section of Plumsted, died Sept. 22, 2007, at Capital Health System’s Fuld Campus, Trenton. Born in Mount Holly, she grew up in Bordentown and graduated from Bordentown Regional High School in 1966. She moved to New Egypt in 1968. Mrs. Good had worked as a home health aide…
-

Dorothy G. Fauser
Mrs. Fauser, 88, of Howell, died Sept. 27, 2007, at Madison Center, Matawan. Born in Freehold, she was a lifelong area resident. Mrs. Fauser was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church of Freehold. She was predeceased by her husband, Charles, in 1975, as well as two sisters, Helen and Matilda. Surviving…
-

No change for attendance areas
BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer Attendance area boundaries for the Freehold Regional High School District will stay the same for the 2008-09 school year. At its meeting on Sept. 24, the FRHSD Board of Education decided not to make any changes regarding the building to which incoming freshmen will be assigned in September 2008, according…
-

New fine arts center will rise on college campus
Ocean County College held a groundbreaking ceremony on Sept. 24 for phase one of construction and renovation on its new fine arts center. The ceremony took place outside on the construction site, adjacent to the existing fine arts building on the main campus, College Drive, Toms River. Those in attendance included students, faculty, staff and…
-

Politicians often attempt to abuse letters forum
GREG BEAN Coda In the newspaper business, there are some lessons you just have to learn the hard way. There’s an old maxim in this profession that even if your mother says she loves you, check it out. In other words, don’t believe anything people tell you without evidence, because you’ll be taken advantage of…
