Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Mother of missing New Jersey woman wishes her a happy birthday
My name is Terri Diel and I would like to wish a happy birthday to my daughter who turned 30 on Aug. 25. I cannot send her a card or call her on the phone. I have no way of letting her know I love her and that I am thinking about her. My daughter,…
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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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You are what you drive
AMY ROSEN Around Town Anyone who has ever had a minivan knows that it does not exactly rank as the coolest of vehicles. I mean you’re not going to get “oohs” and “aahs” and people staring at your car as you drive down the road. People aren’t going to pull up next to you and…
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Interim supt. excited about prospects for school year
BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent PLUMSTED – The Plumsted Township School District will have new administrators and new programs in place as school doors open for an expected enrollment of 1,870 students on Sept. 5. According to Christine Carlson, interim superintendent of schools, the Board of Education at its Aug. 22 meeting approved a new business…
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Drop the wine cooler, Grandma, or go to jail
GREG BEAN Coda In the end, it looks like stupidity won over common sense at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel. Since July, almost 500 of the dumbest people on the East Coast have managed to get themselves arrested for underage drinking and various other liquor-related offenses at the venue, and dozens have been…
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What women want isn’t that hard to figure out
CLARE MARIE CELANO Girl Talk If Sigmund Freud had taken a little more time and gently asked women what they really wanted, rather than probing and plumbing their psyches, he quite possibly could have changed the course of history. What do women want? At least in an intimate relationship? I make no claims to be…
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Facing the nightmares of going back to school
LORI CLINCH Are We There Yet? Iknow a gal whose little dears happen to love school. Armed with compasses, rulers and a brand-new set of colored pencils, her children are known to count down the last days of summer vacation with pure bliss. It’s enough to make a gal like me choke on her big…
