Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • 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…

  • He’s just too busy to call his frantic mom

    LORI CLINCH Are We There Yet? Our eldest son is off at college, and I have to say that it’s been a tough row to hoe for a mother such as myself. The mornings have been too quiet, the laundry basket has been running a load short, and I have to go to bed at…

  • Board president stands by his statement

    Anyone who has lived in Jackson long enough will notice that politics in this town too often reverts to personal attacks of individuals and their families. As it happens, I have served my town, both in a partisan political position as a township committeeman and on the nonpartisan Board of Education. I decided, long ago,…

  • Obituaries

    Ellen M. Losso Longstreth Mrs. Longstreth, 78, of North Brunswick, died Sept. 6, 2007, at home. Born in New Brunswick, she had resided in Highland Park before relocating to North Brunswick in 1967. She was a secretary at Instant Alarm Service Inc., Edison, for 23 years, retiring in 1993. She was a former member of…

  • Private school gains approval

    BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer HOWELL – A private high school to be known as the Monmouth Academy of Scientific Arts will be coming to Howell. The Planning Board recently approved an application from Bruno DeVinck to build a private high school that is expected to accommodate about 130 students. According to a report prepared…

  • The ‘other guy did it’ won’t work as an alibi

    GREG BEAN Coda One of my favorite literary characters is a guy called Otherguy Overby. Otherguy makes his first appearance in a book by Ross Thomas called “Chinaman’s Chance.” In the book, it’s explained that Otherguy got his name because every time he got arrested for a crime, his alibi was that “some other guy…

  • Mom’s foreign language skills are a little rusty

    LORI CLINCH Are We There Yet? ‘Are you relieved that the kids are back in school?” a kind soul asked me just last week. I think I shocked him when I said I was not happy at all. After all, one might think that a mother of four boys would be doing a lighthearted salsa…

  • Your Turn

    Special event helps in fight vs. breast cancer SUSAN ADDELSTON Guest Column SUSAN ADDELSTON Guest Column The Komen sisters, Susan and Nancy, were born into the 1940s baby boom generation and brought up in Peoria, Ill. Their lives were normal with a string of good schools, fun activities, handsome boyfriends, good marriages and solid parents.…