Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Cerretani, Corato elected to lead board for next year

    BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer HOWELL – After newly re-elected Board of Education members Valerie Rosenberg and Robert Antonaccio were sworn in for their new three-year terms at the April 26 reorganization meeting of the board, both relinquished their leadership positions on the panel. Rosenberg, the former president, yielded…

  • 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…

  • Obituaries

    Eleanor M. Ur Mrs. Ur, 93, of Lakewood, died March 8 at Leisure Park Health Center, Lakewood. She was affectionately known as “Aunt Ellie” to her loved ones. Born in Cumberland, Md., she had resided in Washington, D.C., for most of her life, where she had worked as a sales consultant in the crystal and…

  • Adult community resident supports Kafton

    I have been a resident of the Westlake Golf and Country Club for almost four years, and since that time mayoral candidate Mike Kafton has been a constant visitor to our community. He is always there for us, supporting the charitable events we host and he has personally participated in many of them. As a…

  • Greg Bean

    Coda Big brothers specialize in diabolical pranks I stopped at the pharmacy the day before Easter, and among the customers waiting at the register was a mom and three kids – a couple of boys maybe 8 and 9, and a girl, 2 or 3. The boys had the look of mischief in their eyes,…

  • Keep up the pressure for school funding fix

    Municipal officials and school district administrators in many New Jersey school districts will be getting down to business this week as they try to pare down budgets for the 2006-07 school year that residents rejected in the April 18 election. Residents should clearly understand one thing – rejecting a school budget does not mean your…

  • New Jersey is not moving fast enough to address key issues

    We who have lived in New Jersey for many years do find it hard to understand where all the negative thoughts have come from, which has become more prevalent. Can it be that we are a fractured state controlled by separate (Tammany Halls) mentality and leadership with their extreme home rule mentality and it is…

  • Defeated school budget will be reviewed by committee

    BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer LAKEWOOD – By an overwhelming margin, voters on April 18 defeated the Board of Education’s $62.6 million tax levy in support of its proposed $108 million budget for the 2006-07 school year. The final count had 2,236 votes against the budget and 458 votes…