Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • American Cancer Society executive is grateful for support

    On behalf of the American Cancer Society’s volunteers and staff, I would like to thank the residents of Monmouth and Ocean counties for their generosity and support of our annual "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" walk. More than 5,000 people participated in this year’s event in Point Pleasant Beach, raising more than $475,000 for American…

  • Jackson resident wants political signs removed from roadsides

    To those political candidates who were successful in their bid to be elected to serve the public, good luck and congratulations. Hopefully you will keep the campaign promises you made to the people who voted for you and got you elected to office. To those who were not as successful, you gave it your best…

  • District honors Elms family with naming of new school

    District honors Elms family with naming of new school Georgia and Edward Elms are members of a family with long ties to education in Jackson and Ocean County. The Jackson Board of Education has voted to name a new elementary school being built off Patterson Road the Elms Elementary School. Edward Elms worked in Jackson…

  • Program is a winner

    Sometimes, it seems, people have an easy time finding things that are wrong with our public schools. There are plenty of areas to pick on if one is inclined to do so. And while some issues that may cast schools in a bad light are deserving of coverage by the media, so, too, are the…

  • 6-acre zoning makes sense to preserve land

    The Garden State Preser-vation Trust and the Monmouth County Free-holders are claiming they need more tax dollars to save open space. As I stated in a letter in 1995, P.T. Barnum would stand in awe at the political scam that has gone on for so long in the state of New Jersey. Lead the citizens…

  • Writer claims historical society trustees have violated procedure

    The Howell Historical Society (HHS) got its start about 1969 when Secilie Greenley (now my wife Secilie Bean) and a few neighbors wanted to collect and preserve historical artifacts and genealogy information about Howell and its citizens. A short time later, Ernest Gikas, attorney and mayor of Howell, incorporated the society as Howell Historical Society…

  • Census figures indicate Marlboro, not Howell, had the most growth

    I am writing to point out not one, but two errors made in the (Nov. 7 Tri-Town News) regarding the increase in population in two towns in the Free-hold Regional High School District, namely Howell and Marlboro. As quoted in your front page article, per the 2000 census, Marlboro’s population went from 27,974 in 1990…

  • Obituaries

    Greater Media Newspapers prints obituaries as a free community service, at no charge to the families of the deceased or to the funeral homes that provide the information. WILLIAM H. LUCAS, 72, of Aberdeen, died Oct. 10 at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Born in Detroit, Mich., he resided in Aberdeen since 1962. He was an…

  • Voting power at stake

    One has to wonder if it’s just a coincidence that at the same time Marlboro has filed a federal lawsuit seeking a change in the vote apportionment on the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education, a change in the voting system has been ordered by the Monmouth County superintendent of schools. The suit…