Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Obituaries

    Warren A. Brown Mr. Brown, 77, of Newtown, Pa., formerly of Manalapan, died April 22 at St. Mary’s Hospital, Newtown. He was brought up in Roselle Park but lived much of his adult life in Manalapan, where he and his wife raised seven children. Prior to retiring 16 years ago from his position as a…

  • Lori Clinch

    Are We There Yet? Hands-off approach has a very high cost Raising boys certainly is enlightening. For example, did you know that a decorative lawn ornament strategically placed close to the house is reason enough for any boy to scale up it and then climb onto the roof? Until recently, neither did I. I guess…

  • Jackson school board member pledges to work for fair funding

    I would like to express my sincere thank you for keeping the Board of Education intact and recognizing that we have worked and will continue to work to the best of our abilities to maintain the educational pro-gress of the past three-plus years. We recognize the fact that pressure continues to grow for additional classrooms…

  • Greg Bean

    Coda Plea to ignore election results is misguided I can usually watch my local council meetings on the community’s public access channel without suffering the fantods, but last week was a different story. In my community, East Brunswick, we’ve faced school budget increases of nearly 30 cents per $100 in valuation every year for the…

  • Stiff penalties needed for school bomb threats

    Juveniles do all sorts of things that seem like fun at the time, but they live to realize they were stupid. Think prank calls, bullying, sneaking beers into the woods or damaging private property on Mischief Night. Although these acts violate one law or another, when the youths are caught, the tendency by authorities is…

  • School board candidates promise to keep an eye on budgets

    First, we should like to express our humble and heartfelt thanks to the long suffering Jackson voters for their amazing spontaneous support in the recent school board election. Though we lost by a hair, we proved that Jackson voters do and will respond to issues properly framed without recourse to worn-out clichs so dear to…

  • Obituaries

    Elizabeth Barbara Horvath Fallon Mrs. Fallon, 71, of Sayreville, died March 27 in Jersey Shore Care Center, Eatontown. Her husband, Edward P. Fallon Sr., died in 1994. Surviving are three sons, Edward P. Fallon Jr. of Farmingdale, Glenn Fallon of South Amboy and Gregory Fallon of Howell; four brothers, Joseph Horvath of Monmouth Beach, Louis…

  • Letters

    It’s time for officials to OK people’s convention I read the article “Assembly-man Blasts School Funding Methods” in your recent edition. As a District 30 voter, I am pleased to know that state Assemblyman Joseph Malone is concerned about the school funding method and spoke openly about it. He has been a state legislator since…

  • Residents need more info about evacuation

    Coda Greg Bean Two weeks ago, I wrote about the lack of an evacuation plan in Monmouth County and the state in case of emergency – at least a plan that anyone knows about. And toward the end of that column, I said that even if such plans exist, crisis managers in the state have…