Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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How Lori scared the burglar away
Are We There Yet? Lori Clinch When the doorbell rang last Tuesday I wasn’t too alarmed. Then I saw a stranger through the glass and the rational voice that I often hear inside my head told me, “DON’T OPEN THAT DOOR!” Naturally, this is the same voice that also tells me that I should NOT…
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School board stands pat on ’06 attendance areas
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer With the Marlboro High School media center filled with parents and other residents, mostly from Howell, the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education voted not to review the issue of student movement again. “I urge you to reconsider this redistricting,” said Brad Birnbaum, of…
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Jackson board signs off on deal with teachers
BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer Jackson JACKSON — Members of the Board of Education voted unanimously at their Dec. 20 meeting to approve a three-year contract that had been ratified a day earlier by the rank and file of the Jackson Education Association (JEA). The JEA represents teachers, school-based secretaries, media…
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Letters
Additional residential building will put a strain on Jackson Wake up, residents of Jackson. If you want to see your taxes continue to increase, then simply do nothing and allow the developers to continue building in Jackson. Proposals are in the works to add approximately 700 new houses in the Grawtown Road area of Jackson.…
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Just a few requests before taking office
Coda Greg Bean You’ve got to give Jun Choi, Edison’s mayor-elect, credit for having chutzpah. Newcomer Choi used a guy in a chicken suit to oust Democratic Mayor George Spadoro in the primary, and he won the general election against independent William Stephens by a very small margin. And what was Choi’s first order of…
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It’s not the thought, it’s the gift that counts
Are We There Yet? Lori Clinch It’s Christmastime, and for me the season officially arrived the second I heard that dang dog barking out “Jingle Bells” on the radio. Oh, the unadulterated bliss. The big day is just around the corner, and I’m taking every shortcut available to me. I’m regifting last year’s fruitcake, I’ve…
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Letters
Differing opinion on First Amendment rights I’ve considered Greg Bean’s columns as [Greater Media Newspapers’] finest feature: entertaining, sensible, thought-provoking. That said, I must disagree with his position regarding the Marcus Borden situation (“Borden’s Lawsuit Grounded in the First Amendment,” Tri-Town News, Dec. 1, 2005). Mr. Bean is not an expert on constitutional law or…
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Obituaries
Frederick B. Knowles Jr. Mr. Knowles, 65, of the Cliffwood Beach section of Old Bridge, died Nov. 20 at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Born in Elizabeth, he resided in Aberdeen prior to moving to Cliffwood Beach 33 years ago. He was an electronic components purchasing agent, retiring in 2002. He was a former member of…
