Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Coda

    Geraldo is still running off at the (big) mouth Greg Bean You know, one of these days someone is going to get fed up with Geraldo Rivera’s threats and beat him like a rented mule. Not that I watch either one of them on television, but there’s apparently quite a feud going between Geraldo and…

  • World’s problems challenge all of us to seek solutions

    Mark Rosman, in his In the News column, (“There is More to Life Than Problems in the Rain Forest,” Tri-Town News, Jan. 5, 2007) bemoans the fact that his children are not learning in school about problems close to home. I think he is missing the point that “problems in the rain forest” cause problems…

  • Are We There Yet?

    Suddenly, the mom is cursing like a sailor Lori Clinch I was having a lovely phone conversation with my sister the other day when she asked me out of the blue, “What are you doing?” “What do you mean, what am I doing?” I replied with bewilderment before I answered quite curtly. “I’m talking to…

  • Peter Carlson served the people of Jackson with integrity

    I was saddened to learn of the death of Peter Carlson with whom I had the privilege and honor of knowing and working over his many years of public service to the Jackson community. Pete was a man of great integrity who put the needs of the people first and helped to make Jackson the…

  • ‘Heroes and Cool Kids’ teaches pupils life skills

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer JACKSON – Students in the Jackson School District are working hard to resolve behavioral conflicts and to set examples as positive role models for fellow classmates. In a Dec. 19 presentation to the Board of Education, teacher-advisers Melissa Pennell and Bea Gagliano explained how the Heroes…

  • Schools may apply for grant

    In an effort to influence more student leadership education in New Jersey schools, the Success for ALL Students Foundation is offering three grants of up to $10,000 for any qualifying New Jersey high school or youth organization that wants to participate. Keven Decker, director of the Success for ALL Students Foundation, said, “We’re hoping it…

  • Family would like to see memorial restored

    On the evening of Jan. 5, a 9/11 memorial in Howell on Newtons Corner Road and Memorial Drive was vandalized by someone or some people by stealing solar lights and panels and throwing stuffed animals placed there and pushing around stones with the Howell victims’ names on them to the side; these lights have shined…

  • Coda

    A somber toast for the coming year (redux) Greg Bean This column first appeared Jan. 4, 2006. I think it’s even more appropriate today than it was then. Things haven’t gotten better in the last year. They’ve gotten worse, and our president is talking about sending even more young soldiers into harm’s way. I hope…

  • Jackson mayor is doing a good job for town

    The taxpayers of Jackson should never forget the financial disaster the previous administration left us with. Mayor Mark Seda and the new Township Council are working hard to turn this around. With the newly appointed Jackson Township Municipal Utilities Authority commissioners, this is the first year in many, many years that JTMUA ratepayers are not…