Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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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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Are We There Yet?
She’s no storybook mom on the block Lori Clinch I was actually in a good mood the other day. My aura seemed right, my mental planets all lined up, and when I listened to the voice in my head, she seemed anything but out-of-sorts. So when all four of my boys asked if they could…
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Howell resident seeks support in objection to planned cellular tower
The residents of Howell need to attend the zoning board meeting on Oct. 23 at 8 p.m. to speak out against the building of a cell tower in Ramtown. Omnipoint Communications Inc. is proposing to build a cell tower on the Ramtown Fire Department property. In order to do so, they are applying for several…
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Coda
‘The Confession’: More than we needed to know Greg Bean After the whirlwind of detail surrounding former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey’s life as a closeted gay, I have three words to describe my reaction: too much information. Like most people in New Jersey, it came as no particular surprise when McGreevey outed himself as…
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Primary school receives grant
PLUMSTED – The New Egypt Primary School has been awarded an $8,000 school grant by the New Jersey Education Association Frederick L. Hipp Foundation for Excellence in Education and was awarded the Edithe Fulton Grant for the Arts, which was named in honor of NJEA past president Edithe Fulton, who is a musician and advocate…
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Car wash boosts JEF
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer JACKSON – Some students at Jackson Memorial High School are all wet. “The Jackson Education Foundation (JEF) fundraising committee held a car wash on Sept. 16 at Commerce Bank and the kids raised $268,” said Theresa Licitra, assistant principal at the Elms Elementary School, who co-chaired…
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Dems, GOP wrangle as tax rate skyrockets
No matter which political party you believe is responsible for this year’s very bad budget news in Jackson, one thing cannot be overlooked: property owners are getting socked with an increase in municipal taxes the size of which is rarely, if ever, seen in this region. Generally speaking, municipal budgets that are approved in most…
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Garbage near Aldrich Road is appalling sight
I am disheartened by the debris and litter that is seen around Howell, in particular on Aldrich Road (near the Sears Hardware shopping center), the medians of the U-turns on both the east and west sides of Aldrich Road and the perimeters of these U-turns. Who monitors the carelessly tossed cups, soda cans, cigarette cartons…
