Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Day of reckoning coming for school district expenses

    The recently announced debut of the Jackson Education Foundation (JEF) with the stated objective to “help provide items that schools cannot afford within the regular education budget” is welcome news. It all depends on how the JEF promoters and hangers-on interpret and present the term “cannot afford.” If this is a long overdue admission that…

  • 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…

  • The man’s tough at work, but trouble at home

    Lori Clinch Are We There Yet? When I’m sick, I take the time to inform those around me. I place a neon sign on the fridge to the children that clearly states that any and all plans involving their mother for the next 48 hours are hereby canceled. I’ll not be available for Parcheesi, bowling…

  • Off-shore drilling will jeopardize N.J. beaches

    Recently, the Congressional House Resources Com-mittee gave a substantial victory to proponents of opening ocean waters off the Outer Conti-nental Shelf (OCS), including areas off the Jersey Shore, to oil and gas exploration. The measure would lift a 25-year bipartisan moratorium in drilling in these environmentally sensitive areas. The Sierra Club is the oldest and…

  • Island Beach State Park is a great summertime destination in N.J.

    Summer at the Jersey Shore needs no explaining. And one of the best beach destinations is Island Beach State Park in Seaside Park. But it’s more than just sun, sand and surf that make this one of New Jersey’s ‘Great Summer Destinations’ – it’s a conservation jewel as well. Since colonial times, the narrow, 10-mile…

  • On Campus

    Michael Ryan DeRienzo, son of Kerri and Michael DeRienzo of Howell, has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at the University of Delaware, Newark, Del., where he is a student in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is majoring in communications and minoring in Spanish, and is currently interning with…

  • Lakewood elementary orchestra gets sweet deal

    LAKEWOOD – Twenty-three members of the Lakewood Elementary Orchestra recently participated in the Music in the Parks Festival at Hershey Park, Hershey, Pa. The orchestra placed first in the Elementary Orchestra Division with a rating of Excellent. In addition, out of 12 elementary and middle school orchestras that participated, Lakewood won the Esprit de Corps…