Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Around Town

    Communication goes to places never imagined Amy Rosen My son recently found our family’s original car phone from the 1980s in the basement. It was a full-size portable phone in a bag with a rechargeable battery that could be plugged into the cigarette lighter – an amazing invention at the time, like something out of…

  • Relief from tax burden should, but will not, begin with politicians

    This is an open letter to Greg Bean, executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers, regarding his Coda column, “If They Won’t Do It, We’ll Have to Do It Ourselves,” that appeared in the Dec. 21 Tri-Town News. I am a resident of Old Bridge and have been for the past 19 years. I love living…

  • Are We There Yet?

    She’s got an encroacher in her very own family Lori Clinch After giving birth to a house full of them, I’ve learned that the male of the species thinks about one thing and one thing only – sports. They live them, breathe them, and when push comes to shove on the football field of life,…

  • Don’t leave poor behind in property tax reform

    Property tax relief is essential in New Jersey, and in many cases it will be an anti-poverty measure for moderate- and middle-income households. However, in attempts to fix property taxes, it is important to recognize that for New Jerseyans with the lowest incomes, property tax relief alone means nothing. New Jersey is one of the…

  • Obituaries

    Elizabeth Meehan Mrs. Meehan, 93, of East Brunswick, died Nov. 24, 2006, in Care One, East Brunswick. Her husband, William L. Meehan, died in 1972. Surviving are a daughter, Elizabeth A. Healy, and her husband, Richard, of Lakewood; three grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. A Mass was offered at St. Bartholomew’s Church, East Brunswick. Interment was…

  • Coda

    At least, the mayor always kept everything interestin’ Greg Bean A young Keyport Councilman John Merla braves the cold to point out a group of troublesome pigeons atop the old Bucket of Blood, a lower Broad Street bar. This photo originally appeared in the Independent in January 1988. Below, a pensive Councilman Merla of the…

  • JTMUA commissioners are well known politicos in the community

    A new meaning to the words cold and deep? This story goes by the way of Jackson’s new Jackson Township Municipal Utilities Authority board. Here is the cast. Bill All-mann, a former Jackson mayor and committeeman, is the chairman. Vicki Rickabaugh, a former Jackson mayor and committeewoman, and the new voice on the Jackson Township…

  • Are We There Yet?

    She’s trying hard to hide from homework Lori Clinch I feel that my love for my children exhibits itself best in their hours of need. I’ve been there for third-strike disputes, three-second lane violations, and while another mother might have headed for the hills during the altercation that followed an illegal motion out on the…

  • Resident says taxpayers in the Garden State must ‘storm the gates’

    Yes, the taxpayers of New Jersey have had enough and the coward politicians blinded by votes and their jobs will never do a thing. I have owned a home in New Jersey for the last 40 years, only to see the taxes go off the radar screen . When paying my real estate taxes for…