Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Developers need to invest in revitalizing New Jersey’s land

    More than 10,000 large parcels of land across New Jersey are contaminated and pose environmental dangers to our residents and communities. They present golden opportunities for remediation, redevelopment, employment and tax relief. Together with top environ-mental companies, agencies in Trenton and banking and real estate entities, we are able to develop creative financing to clean…

  • Obituaries

    Avery Owenburg Avery Owenburg, 8 months, of Howell, died July 12 at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. Born in Neptune, she had lived in Howell since she was born. Surviving are her parents, Jennifer and Cory Owenburg of Howell; a brother, Brayden Owenburg, at home; her maternal grandparents, Ellen and Angelo Piro of Manalapan;…

  • Schoolwork continuing over summer

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer JACKSON – Summertime construction and reconstruction projects are continuing throughout the Jackson School District. In a report to the Board of Education at a recent meeting, Superintendent of Schools Thomas Gialanella said the projects are going along well. At the Christa McAuliffe Middle School, workers are…

  • Next time, she’ll stick to day-old Kool-Aid

    When I got the call that cousin Mary Ann was bringing her family and coming for a visit, I hung up the phone and broke into a dead run. I knew I’d have to dust this, polish that and make vast preparations. Windows would have to be cleaned, sheets would have to be changed and…

  • For the Record

    In the Howell K-8 school district, the salary of food services department director Audrey Macdonald is regulated by the Board of Education, but the salary is paid through food services revenue. A recent article did not clearly indicate that Macdonald’s salary is paid in that manner.

  • 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…

  • Fiscal sanity must be N.J. Legislature’s No. 1 priority

    Absolutely amazing! Where does the insanity stop? For years we have been regaled by embarrassing examples of state and local government corruption, incompetence, unrestrained fiscal irresponsibility and political self-promotion. It seems the chickens have finally come home to roost. Now, fast forward to this latest chapter in our theater of the absurd – the state’s…

  • Board debates proposed 10-cent lunch price hike

    BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer HOWELL – Citing rising costs due to state mandates and the desire to create a reserve account for the K-8 school district’s food services department, its director, Audrey Macdonald, has proposed a 10-cent increase in school lunch prices. At least two members of the…

  • Asst. supt. leaves Howell for superintendent’s job

    BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer Jorden Schiff HOWELL – For Jorden Schiff, home is where the job is. Schiff, the assistant superintendent for curriculum and personnel of the K-8 district, has left Howell to become the superintendent of schools in the Readington Township school district in Readington, Hunterdon County…