Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Teen readies for summer singing tour of Europe

    BY ERIN O. STATTEL Correspondent BY ERIN O. STATTELCorrespondent Kristin Lindquist FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Kristin Lindquist loves to sing and her talents have recently afforded her the opportunity to be selected for The Sound of America Honor Band and Chorus that will be touring Europe in July. “I’ve always loved to perform in front of…

  • Joseph N. Pasqualetti

    Mr. Pasqualetti, 76, of Toms River, died June 6, 2007, at Community Medical Center Hospice, Toms River. Born in New York City, he had lived there and in Closter and then in Jackson before moving to Toms River two years ago. Mr. Pasqualetti owned and operated Marcy’s Auto Seat Covers in Englewood and Paterson, retiring…

  • Madeline Irene Davison

    Mrs. Davison, 90, of Howell, died June 8, 2007, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. She was born in Englishtown and was a lifelong area resident. Prior to retiring in 1980, Mrs. Davison was employed by the Howell Township Board of Education as a cafeteria manager at the Ardena and Griebling schools. She was a…

  • Three new principals named in Freehold Regional district

    Three of the Freehold Regional High School District’s six schools will welcome new principals during the 2007-08 school year. FRHSD public information officer Ilse Whisner confirmed this week that new administrators have been hired to assume the top posts at Colts Neck High School, Manalapan High School and Marlboro High School. Superintendent of Schools James…

  • Allan L. Voorhees

    Mr. Voorhees, 68, of Spotswood, formerly of Marlboro and Freehold, died June 8, 2007, at home. Prior to his retirement, he was a heavy-equipment operator with Fenwick Construction, Matawan. Surviving are his wife, Mary Anne Linneman Voorhees; a son, Allan T. Voorhees, and his wife, Darlene, of Farmingdale; a sister, Bette Mancini DeMarco, and her…

  • James Peter ‘Bubsy’ Cummiskey Sr.

    Mr. Cummiskey, 56, of Howell, died June 25, 2007, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born and raised in the New Brighton section of Staten Island, N.Y., he had lived in the Westerleigh section of Staten Island before moving to Howell in 1986. He was a U. S. Navy veteran who served during the Vietnam…

  • Lydia Ann Pawluk

    Mrs. Pawluk, 67, of Salisbury, N.C., died June 24, 2007, at Rowan Regional Medical Center, Salisbury. She was born in Neptune and had lived in Jackson and Freehold before moving to Salisbury in 2005. Prior to retiring in 2005, Mrs. Pawluk was employed for many years as a school bus driver for the Howell Township…

  • David C. Murphy

    Mr. Murphy, 56, of Old Bridge, died June 17, 2007, in Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Surviving are his wife, Bernadine; four sons, Joseph Sherman Jr. and William Sherman, both of Keansburg, Anthony Sherman of the Port Monmouth section of Middletown and Norman Sherman of Frenchtown; three daughters, Nancy Pump of Stockton, Donna Sherman of Old…

  • Floretta Dozier

    Mrs. Dozier, 71, of Manalapan, died June 11, 2007, at East Orange General Hospital, East Orange. Mrs. Dozier was born in Bessemer, Ala., and had resided in Manalapan for the past 36 years. Prior to retiring, she was a cosmetologist at Romeo and Juliet Beauty Salon, Howell. She attended Bethel A.M.E. Church, Freehold, and was…