Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • With pupils’ health in mind, school eliminates junk food

    BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer Students at the Holy Family School, East County Line Road, Lakewood, lined up around the concession stand of their renamed cafeteria Eagles’ Nest Café – “Where Manners Are Always Welcome.” The pupils held dollar bills and waited for a chance to purchase items such as Austin’s peanut butter cheese crackers,…

  • 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…

  • Laundry is the black hole of housework

    LORI CLINCH Are We There Yet? Somewhere, somehow, there is a woman in a lovely home who has an empty laundry bin. Her shirts are pressed, her linens are fresh, and all of her whities are totally tidy. I don’t know who she is, but I’ll tell you this: I don’t like her. I have…

  • Obituaries

    Joseph J. Rossotto Mr. Rossotto, 89, of Jackson, died Sept. 16, 2007, at home. He was born and raised in Jersey City, where he had lived before moving to Jackson in 2003. Prior to retiring in 1972, he worked in the gas division of Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G) Co., Jersey City, for more…

  • Jackson school board OKs new set-up for meetings

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON – The Board of Education has voted 7-0 to approve a change to the 2007-08 meeting schedule to include a committee of the whole. Committee of the whole meetings will take place one week prior to the board’s regular business meeting and will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the…

  • Teachers, support staff benefit from workshops

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON – School teachers from the Jackson School District stepped up to the plate and presented 100 in-service day workshops to their colleagues on Sept. 5. Assistant superintendents Lu Anne Meinders and Mark DeMareo summarized the Sept. 5 event for the Board of Education at a recent meeting. The workshops…

  • Results of ‘basic civics’ test can be misleading

    GREG BEAN Coda The national papers and pundits were all atwitter last week over the results of a test given to 14,000 college students across the country that seemed to suggest that lots of them got stupider during their four years of expensive education instead of smarter. The test, the results of which were released…