Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Maybe it’s time for Manalapan, Marlboro to leave regional district

    I attended the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education meeting on Jan. 28 in order to learn more about the proposed redistricting. Statistics provided at the meeting disclosed the following information: • There are problems with overcrowding in two schools, specifically Manalapan and Marlboro high schools. • There is room for additional students…

  • Howell students to have school choice in September

    Howell students to have school choice in September A resolution permitting a group of 199 eighth-graders from Howell to appeal their school assignment to Howell High School and instead attend Freehold Township High School was approved by members of the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education on Monday. Board members Bernice Hammer of…

  • 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. FRANCES MORAN SCHROEDER, 84, of Lakewood, died Jan. 27 at Community Medical Center, Toms River. Born in New York City, she had lived in Cliffside Park and…

  • Law will merit close look

    The Howell Township Council could introduce an ordinance at its March 4 meeting that will reflect where American society has come over the last several decades. An ordinance requiring fingerprinting and background checks of coaches or any volunteers working in township-sponsored youth activities and organizations is being developed. The actual background check and final determination…

  • Same old good news in Plumsted

    When it comes to talk of the municipal budget in Plumsted this year, let’s just say it’s the same old, same old news. That’s good news for the residents of Plumsted where, for the 13th consecutive year, there will be no increase in the municipal tax rate, According to the $3,175,681 budget the Township Committee…

  • Jackson tigers would be better off in another location

    I do not think that Roberta McGilvery truly gets the point about the tigers in Jackson (Tri-Town News, letters to the editor, Feb. 21). It has nothing to do with real estate development but everything to do with the well being of the tigers. She proves her point by stating that she has lived in…

  • Guest Column Leslie Savage MUA must be more responsive to residents

    Guest Column Leslie Savage MUA must be more responsive to residents Citizens are outraged over recent government spending practices such as the extravagant 18 percent Municipal Utilities Authority rate increase. Many of us banded together in the fall of 2001 and formed a group called CASH. CASH (Citizens Against Spending Hikes) is an "anti-tax and…

  • Referendum co-chairs grateful for passage of plan

    As co-chairs of the recent school construction referendum there are a lot of people we would like to thank. To the 6,600 people who took the time to vote, thank you. To the 3,305 voters who voted yes, a special thanks. To all the members of the Future Directions Committee who recognized that ours is…

  • Business owner gives thanks to Jackson Police Dept.

    Business owner gives thanks to Jackson Police Dept. I am writing this letter to thank the Jackson Police Department for the safe return of our ice cream cone. I’m not talking about any old cone, I’m talking about the 9-foot-tall cone that has become something of a landmark in front of our store, Farley’s Homemade…