Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • 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…

  • Wasser: Seventh school will be needed in future

    H.S. administrators ask Manalapan officials to consider donating land BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer BY MARK ROSMANStaff Writer The future for the Freehold Regional High School District holds a seventh school. That is the news that Superintendent of Schools James Wasser delivered to the Manalapan Township Committee during a short presentation he and Business Administrator…

  • Obituaries

    John J. Conti Jr. Mr. Conti, 36, of the West Keansburg section of Hazlet, died March 23 at home. Born in Red Bank, he resided in Hazlet before moving to West Keansburg seven year ago. Mr. Conti was a chef at Shore Caf, Hazlet, and worked part time as a loader at UPS. He was…

  • Letters

    Ocean County offers seminar on medications From over-the-counter medication labels to the instructions on prescription medicines, medical jargon is everywhere. It’s sometimes confusing and often hard to understand. Studies have found that nearly one-third of all Americans have difficulties in understanding the instructions from their medical prescriptions or their doctors. The dedicated heathcare professionals at…

  • What’s the evacuation plan? There is no plan

    Coda Greg Bean About 20 years ago, it dawned on people in northern Massachusetts that if the Seabrook nuclear power plant near the border of that state and New Hampshire melted down, or if there were a bad hurricane or other disaster, people were pretty much S.O.L. because there was absolutely no evacuation plan. The…

  • Wartime baseball had its share of characters

    Dick Metzgar Reporter at Large I have some fond and indelible memories of major league baseball during the war years in the early 1940s. By 1941, at the age of 9, baseball was already playing a major role in my life, and it has continued to do so to this day. I had become an…

  • Mom can’t wait for the end of school

    Are We There Yet? Lori Clinch It seems that wherever I go these days, someone will ask me if I dread the idea of the kids being home all summer. Truth of the matter is, I can’t help looking forward to the end of the school year. I know that makes me sound as if…