Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • For the record

    Medicare paid for the first 36 sessions of a cardiovascular rehabilitation program offered to patients at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. A story in the Feb. 7 Tri-Town News included the incorrect length of the Medicare payments.

  • Student attendance areas remain a topic of debate Only change in FRHSD for September involves small section of Howell

    Staff Writer By kathy baratta Student attendance areas remain a topic of debate Only change in FRHSD for September involves small section of Howell A variety of opinions on the topic of student attendance areas was an issue of public discussion at a recent meeting of the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education.…

  • 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. MYRON VAN PELT, 83, of the Forked River section of Lacey Township, died Feb. 3 in Southern Ocean County Hospital, Manahawkin. He was a quality engineer with…

  • Resident baffled with directive for seniors to find new rehab site

    I believe there is a health-care mistake in the making. The issue to which I refer is the Rehabilitation Cardiovascular Fitness Program at Freehold Township’s CentraState Medical Center in which seniors have been participating for years. Now we are told to go find another setting, to work out on our own or at the local…

  • Lakewood resident calls N.J. provisional driver’s licenses unfair

    Lakewood resident calls N.J. provisional driver’s licenses unfair For months I’ve griped with this pointless law. Law-makers are practically telling teen-agers, "You are old enough to be held accountable for your actions as adults in court, but you are still too young and immature to drive." Teen-agers need the experience of driving to make the…

  • 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. CARMELA BOBIAK, 69, of Freehold, died Jan. 18 at Bartley Manor Convalescent Center, Jackson. She was born in New York City and moved to Freehold 40 years…

  • Public discussion needed on panel’s recommendation

    Public discussion needed on panel’s recommendation A committee made up of staff members and administrators from the Freehold Regional High School District, as well as citizens from the district, has concluded that in order to accommodate the district’s increasing enrollment a seventh high school must be constructed. The committee is recommending that the new school…

  • 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. EASTER MAE SAVAGE, 72, of Manalapan, died Jan. 9 at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born in Vernon, Fla., she had lived in the Manalapan area for…

  • Continued push needed for property revaluations

    Continued push needed for property revaluations Members of the Jackson Board of Education and the administrative staff that runs the district will have a lot of work on their hands over the next few months. In a vote that was almost too close to imagine, residents who went to the polls on Jan. 22 approved…