Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Well-rounded education requires arts, athletics

    I would like to thank Nicholas Antonoff for helping to publicize, in his negative way, of course, the Jackson Educational Foundation. However, for someone who attends Board of Education meetings regularly and blatantly calls the superintendent of schools a liar, and who never recognizes the accomplishments of our students or teachers, I take his accusations…

  • An interim program is needed to balance tax payments in Jackson

    At the Jackson Township Council meeting July 25, the “interim” real estate tax bills, sent to all Jack-sonians, were discussed and among other subjects, the contract that was signed by the previous Township Com-mittee for reappraising properties within the town’s limits that have not been reassessed for many years. This contract cannot be initiated for…

  • Educator excited about post as primary school principal

    BY SHARON LEFF Correspondent BY SHARON LEFFCorrespondent Toni Ferry PLUMSTED – Classes at the New Egypt Primary School, Evergreen Road, will begin Sept. 6 with Toni Ferry serving as the school’s new principal. Ferry, the former assistant principal at New Egypt High School, officially started her new duties on July 20. The primary school has…

  • On Campus

    Kevin Healey, of the New Egypt section of Plumsted, has earned a bachelor of arts degree in individualized studies from Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Metropolitan Campus, Teaneck. Philip Rizzo, of the New Egypt section of Plumsted, has received a master of administrative science degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Metro-politan Campus, Teaneck. Christina Rourke of Howell has…

  • Board nixes request to let cheerleaders skip gym class

    BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer Their encouragement may lead football players to the end zone, but it could not drive the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education to include them in the so-called Option II. At the board’s July 24 meeting at district headquarters in Englishtown, Manalapan…

  • Time for the old reliable: ‘Don’t you sass me’

    Lori Clinch Are We There Yet? Although I’m reluctant to admit it, my kids are getting to the age where they can quite easily get the mental best of me. They seem to know more than I do, understand concepts better than I do, and comparing my memory to theirs is like comparing prime rib…

  • Zambrano feels ‘awful,’ and well he should

    Greg Bean Coda Just when you think your personal disgust meter can’t go any higher, along comes Fazz Zambrano to kick it into full-tilt, red-line boogie. As most people in Monmouth County know, on July 20 John “Fazz” Zambrano pleaded guilty to taking a bribe in an undercover sting operation that has netted a whole…

  • Slim solves the mystery of New Jersey politics

    Greg Bean Coda If you want a job harder than the one Hercules had when he cleaned out old King Augeas’ stables in a day, you ought to try explaining New Jersey politics to a bunch of dyed-in-the-wool Red Staters. That’s the task I found before me on my recent trip to Wyoming, when I…

  • Politics at heart of Jackson decision-making

    I felt compelled to write this letter as a public message to the residents in Jackson. It appears our new mayor and administrator have changed a word in the dictionary. That word is volunteer. Volunteer: “a person who performs or offers a service of his or her own free will.” As of July 1, the…