Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Student achievers presented to FRHSD school board
Six students from the Freehold Regional High School District will be among the young adults honored when the Monmouth County Dr. Norman Field Student Recognition Program is held at Colts Neck High School on March 29. At a recent meeting of the FRHSD Board of Education, the district’s honored students were presented. These student achievers…
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Lakewood drama students will stage musical ‘Sugar’
BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer BY TOYNETT HALLStaff Writer LAKEWOOD – Murder, love triangles and cross dressing are the elements commonly found in the art of today’s pop culture. While critics continue to dispute the sexually implicit and violent content of this era, others may refute that these social ills have been ingrained in American…
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Lori Clinch
Are We There Yet? Talking the birds, the bees and basketball Since all of our children are boys, I didn’t think that I should be the one to give them the talk about the birds and the bees. Personally, I thought the responsibility of that talk should fall squarely on their father’s shoulders. “Well, what…
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Greg Bean
Coda New Jersey behind China on eminent domain reform If Americans want to prevent losing their homes to eminent domain abuse, maybe they ought to consider moving to a place that has a higher regard for the notion of private property rights. Somewhere like China. According to a recent story in the Washington Post, lawmakers…
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Isabel Shaw
Guest Column More information, study is necessary on Gardasil The editorial “Vaccine a Question of Health, Not Morality” (Tri-Town News, Feb. 22, 2007) missed the mark. This is exactly the type of editorial the drug companies hoped for: emphasizing the issue of morality – which is easy to dismiss – instead of focusing on the…
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State makes the right call on use of Dimilin
For most people, the idea of spraying pesticides from airplanes flying over residential neighborhoods simply doesn’t seem like a good idea. History is littered with examples of supposedly safe chemicals that turned out to be anything but safe, so why not err on the side of caution? The state recently considered the use of aerial…
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Hometown heroes are being honored during Red Cross Month
March is Red Cross Month and this year we are honoring our local “hometown heroes” to bring awareness to the community about individuals who dedicate their time to serving their community through the American Red Cross. What’s a hero? Like art, heroism is in the eye of the beholder. You know a hero when you…
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Obituaries
Anthony Dos Santos Anthony Dos Santos Sr., 73, of Toms River, died Feb. 28, 2007, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in Bordeaux, France, he had lived in Marlboro for 40 years. Prior to retiring in 1996, Mr. Dos Santos was a supervisor in the HVAC department at St. Peter’s University Hospital,…
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Resident picks personal safety over assistance
A few weeks ago you printed an article about LIHEAP (Programs Offer Assistance With Payments for Energy,” Tri-Town News, Feb. 8, 2007). I had just received an unrequested application in the mail, which I filled out and returned immediately. Three days later I received a form from Ocean Inc. requesting all kinds of personal information…
