Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Jackson residents need to have businesses in their hometown
Icommend Stan Goldman for his letter to the editor (“People May Be Jackson Township’s Real Endangered Species,” Tri-Town News, Aug. 30). I am in my 25th year here in Jackson and couldn’t agree with him more. When are we going to stop planting more weeds (homes) and start sowing some crops – like some small…
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Shirley E. MacKenzie
Mrs. MacKenzie, 69, of Howell, died Aug. 23, 2007, at home. She was born in Newark and had lived there before moving to Howell. Prior to retiring in 2002, she was a toll collector for the Garden State Parkway Authority for 12 years. Mrs. MacKenzie was a parishioner of St. Veronica’s Roman Catholic Church, Howell.…
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Judith A. Bendik
Mrs. Bendik, 69, of Jackson, died Aug. 30, 2007, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and had lived in the Dongan Hills section of Staten Island, N.Y., and in Marlboro before moving to Jackson in 2002. Prior to retiring in 1983, she was an executive secretary, purchaser and trader…
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Obituaries
Rosa V. Lakin Mrs. Lakin, 61, of the Lincroft section of Middletown, died Sept. 1, 2007, at St. Barnabas Hospice, Long Branch. Born in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, she resided in Union Beach prior to relocating to Lincroft in 1979. She was a cafeteria worker at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, the past five years. Prior to…
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Enrollment figures show drop in student numbers
Administrators wait for late enrollees ahead of new term BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer HOWELL – When Howell pupils return to school on Sept. 7 there may well be fewer of them. According to information provided by the office of Assistant Superintendent of Schools Karen Jones, the district’s total enrollment as of Aug. 17 stood…
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School board may switch set-up for committees
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON – The Board of Education may change from its present way of using individual committees to study a particular issue to a committee of the whole setup. Board member Linda Lackay said a committee can examine a specific issue, i.e. buildings and grounds, finance or legislation. Only three of…
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Lawsuit objects to camera focused on rabbi’s home
Ongoing issue surrounds use of residence as a place for prayer services BY ELANA ARON Correspondent FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – A civil rights lawsuit has been filed in federal district court by Rabbi Avraham Bernstein against Freehold Township. The lawsuit accuses the township of setting up a camera in the window of Town Hall and pointing…
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When it comes to new law, less is almost always more
GREG BEAN Coda In “Civil Disobedience,” his great work on the duty of all men to rebel against unjust governments, American philosopher and noted recluse Henry David Thoreau said, “I heartily accept the motto – That government is best which governs least.” It was his notion that we are not served well by lawmakers who…
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This freshman mom has an achy-breaky heart
LORI CLINCH Are We There Yet? We took our oldest son to college last Thursday, and I can’t help but wonder if other mothers handle it as poorly as I did. Although I had been cautioned that it would be tough, I didn’t heed the warnings. I just told myself that his leaving home would…
