Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Resident appalled at driver’s lack of concern
This letter is directed at the man who drove a wine-colored Acura V6L on May 2 at 11:15 p.m., near "four corners" in Jackson. I was horrified as I drove behind you, while you proceeded to clean out your car and opened both windows and threw out tissues, napkins and other paper goods and garbage…
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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. JUNE IDA HAWKES, 66, of the Morganville section of Marlboro, died May 10 at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born in Iselin, she lived in the Robertsville…
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Cooperation serves residents
If Lakewood school administrators and municipal officials are to be believed, a new era of cooperation may be dawning between the Board of Edu-cation and the Township Com-mittee. Superintendent of Schools Dr. Ernest J. Cannava and Deputy Mayor Charles Cunliffe both told the Tri-Town News this week that a cooperative spirit existed among representatives of…
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For the record
Anyone interested in contacting the female doowop a cappella group StreetHeart may do so by calling Betty Semel at (732) 446-5283; by e-mailing [email protected]; or by visiting www.streetheartgirlz.com. This information was inadvertently omitted from an article in the May 23 Tri-Town News.
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Plumsted Township voters came through for community’s children
Residents in Plumsted were recently asked to support our schools twice in the last two months through direct voter action. Both times our community came through for our children. With both the referendum in March and our operating budget vote in April, we are proud that our community recognizes that our children are our greatest…
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School budget vote in Jackson Township was ‘voice of the people’
In response to Jackson Board of Education President Chuck Murphy’s remark after the defeat of the proposed school budget … "it was almost as if there was a stealth campaign against the budget…" As defined in the dictionary, stealth is a secret or surreptitious procedure or action. No, Mr. Murphy, this was not a secret…
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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. MICHAEL TROTTA, 72, of Old Bridge, died May 10 in The Manor, Freehold. Surviving are his wife, Hazel Kelly Trotta; two daughters, Michelle Chrzanowski of Jackson and…
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Retired pilot found Christians were mistreated in Israel
I read with interest the story about the fliers distributed on windshields by a member or members of the National Alliance. The main critic which was consulted was the Southern Poverty Law Center. The head of this organization, Morris Dees, has several unsavory aspects to his character. Perhaps you are ignorant of this. A check…
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Hatred and racism require an appropriate response
Your May 9, 2002 front page article about the neo-Nazi fliers left in Howell requires an appropriate response. Unfortunately some editors have misgivings about printing appropriate responses. A New York Times editorial reporting the surge of vicious anti-Semitism in France and then hiding the one inadequate reader response a week later on the bottom of…
