Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Parents need help in training teens to drive

    I read the article “New Com-mission Would Study Teen Driving Issues” (Tri-Town News, Feb. 1, 2007) and agree that we need to do more to ensure the safety of our teen drivers. As a mother of a 16-year-old, soon to get his license, I am concerned about what may lie ahead. We all know that…

  • New Jersey taxpayers got the charlatans that they voted for

    The trumpets are blaring in Trenton. The so-called leaders of our state are congratulating themselves for a job well done. They have ad-dressed the property tax issue in New Jersey. One can only ask whether these people really believe themselves. If they do, they do not belong in Trenton. If they do not, they do…

  • ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ bows in updated auditorium

    BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer BY TOYNETT HALLStaff Writer HOWELL – A cast of Howell High School students is preparing to present their first production in the school’s newly renovated auditorium. Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate” will be performed at 8 p.m. Feb. 23-24 and March 2-3 at Howell High School, Squankum-Yellowbrook Road. Tickets are…

  • Vaccine a question of health, not morality

    In considering whether to make a vaccine that immunizes girls against human papillomavirus (HPV) mandatory, lawmakers should decide solely on its merits for protecting the public health. Instead, the issue seems to have been partially obscured by some flimsy arguments about parents’ rights. The bill, currently pending before the Assembly, would require girls entering seventh…

  • Obituaries

    Carl P. Carco Mr. Carco, 49, of Jackson, died Feb. 5, 2007, after a courageous battle with brain cancer. Born in Astoria, N.Y., he had lived in Freehold before moving to Jackson in 1999. He was a computer analyst with Computer Sciences Corp., Edison, for 10 years. Mr. Carco was predeceased by his parents, Antoinette…

  • Coda

    ‘Concerned Citizen’ is still busy writing letters Greg Bean I’ve been getting a lot of letters from Concerned Citizen lately, and I wish he or she would just stop writing and save themselves the postage. In the nearly three decades I’ve been in journalism, Concerned Citizen has written me dozens, maybe hundreds of letters. And…

  • Are We There Yet?

    Absence makes her heart grow fonder, for a while Lori Clinch Sometimes when the kids are at school, I can’t help but miss them.I think about their precious smiles as I launder their clothes. I contemplate their contagious laughter as I pick up their shoes, and I ponder their potential to be anything they want…

  • Are We There Yet?

    She’ll get no sympathy from this little bunch Lori Clinch When the children are sick, I do my personal best to nurse them back to health. I cancel appointments, rearrange my schedule, and stand guard as I wait at their beck and call. “Get some rest,” I’ll tell them as I kiss their brow, “and…

  • River deserves highest level of protection

    The League of Women Voters of Ocean County would like to inform Ocean County citizens that Gov. Jon Corzine and Commissioner Lisa Jackson of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection have been petitioned to designate the Toms River as a Category 1 (C-1) waterway. This designation is among the highest level of protection that…