Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Team Go To gets pupils involved at Griebling
BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer HOWELL – When teachers and administrators at the Griebling School need somewhere to turn, the Howell School District’s student assistance professional Holli Toline hopes they find Team Go To. Just as the name implies, Toline has created a program for pupils from three fifth…
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Fuel spill at school contained
JACKSON – No students or staff members had any contact with spilled diesel fuel during an incident that occurred at the Carl W. Goetz Middle School, Patterson Road, on Oct. 4. The fuel spill occurred during what school officials said was a routine delivery at the building at about 11 a.m. “We were able to…
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Are We There Yet?
She would just love to sell her cell phone Lori Clinch From the moment I saw a woman on TV using a cell phone to call in a pizza, I wanted a cell phone so bad I couldn’t stand it. A cloud of desire came over me as I imagined all of the freedom that…
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Coda
This year, old-fashioned is the height of fashion Greg Bean Like many men of my acquaintance, I have a simple philosophy when it comes to fashion: Pick a look you like and stay with it forever. For me, that means my work wardrobe consists almost entirely of khaki or colored-denim trousers, oxford shirts with buttoned…
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Coda
Even if we build it, they will still come Greg Bean As communities in central New Jersey like Freehold Borough and Lakewood struggle with the thorny problems arising from illegal immigration, about the only solace we can take is that the federal government is doing an even worse job of finding a solution than we…
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Are We There Yet?
Mom feels pretty smug, but it is short-lived Lori Clinch I haven’t always enjoyed going to a supercenter. No sir, back in the day when the boys were young, a trip to the supercenter was the anatomical equivalent of having my eyebrows plucked during a root canal. My boys were like hellions in the produce…
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Mayor: Town has maintenance plan in place
Recently former mayor Timothy Konopka took issue with my criticisms of how the township did not have a maintenance plan for or make adequate investments in road improvements in Howell. I regret that the former mayor took such offense to my factual statements. I was even more disturbed when he used Nazi references in his…
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First responders to tragedy offer comfort to Jackson resident
When my husband and I moved to Jackson in the summer of 2003, we were told by several people to watch out for the Jackson police. It was said that they were all too gung-ho, did not believe in any type of leniency, regardless of circumstance, and let’s just forget about a sense of humor,…
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Obituaries
Doris Bearmore Bathgate Mrs. Bathgate, 89, died Sept. 8 at Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood. Born in the Adelphia section of Howell Township, on April 18, 1917, she was the daughter of Addie Southard Bearmore and Millard Fillmore Bearmore. She had lived in Howell for 69 years before moving to Lakewood 20 years ago. She was…
