Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Lori Clinch
Are We There Yet? If only candles smelled like cleaning products I can remember back when I thought that only special women enjoyed candles about the abode. I was sure that they were women with clean houses and cute hair that dressed smartly and had time to relish regular programming on HGTV. I tried to…
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Organizer asks area residents to volunteer as host families
We seem divided: country against country and group against group. In a world growing ever smaller and more interdependent this is not a good sign, nor a healthy trend. The good news is that we – acting as individuals, families, church and civic groups – can do something about it. Long-term change means starting with…
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Greg Bean
Coda Who wouldn’t want a nice no-show job? If you’re looking for the personification of nearly everything that can be wrong with local government in New Jersey, look no further than Anthony Palughi. Palughi, who was arrested and charged with corruption by the FBI in December 2004, was the state’s key witness in the recent…
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Obituaries
Edward F. Lang Mr. Lang, 89, of Farmingdale, died May 26 at Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills section of Pemberton, after undergoing open-heart surgery. Born in Newark, he had lived there before moving to Farmingdale in 1932. Prior to retiring in 1979, he was an assistant supervisor for 32 years at the Motor…
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Mayors support constitutional convention
On June 5, I joined mayors from throughout Ocean County to discuss an issue that impacts all of us – property taxes. Mayor Paul Brush, of Dover Township, served as the chairman for the meeting that was attended by Mayor David Siddons, of Island Heights, Mayor Russ Corby, of Pine Beach, Mayor Meir Lich-tenstein, of…
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Chalk art
The annual chalk art show sponsored by the Jackson Community Alliance for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Abuse and the Jackson Optimist Club attracted a group of talented people to the ShopRite shopping center on County Line Road recently. In photo at top, Dana Vogel, of Jackson, draws the familiar faces of Harry Potter…
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Resident: Corzine’s proposed budget features too much spending
The next several weeks are critically important to the taxpayers of New Jersey. Our collective future is at stake. The state budget as proposed by Gov. Jon S. Corzine will be voted on before the end of this month, and the outcome will impact every citizen in New Jersey. Currently we are mired in a…
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A piece of school history will move to Liberty H.S.
JACKSON – There will be a new school bell at the new Jackson Liberty High School in September. Actually, it will be an “old” new school bell. A decision by the Township Committee has approved the move of an old school bell, which stands outside the Prospertown one-room school near the municipal building. The cast…
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Howell resident lists council’s accomplishments
Thank you, mayor and Township Council of How-ell, for keeping municipal taxes as low as possible, for the lowest number of building permits, for the highest number of open space acres, for a shade tree ordinance to beautify Howell for generations to come; For the first architectural standards for Route 9, for a plan to…
