Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Guest Column Glenda Grill Renew call for builder impact fees
Guest Column Glenda Grill Renew call for builder impact fees Open the front page to any newspaper in New Jersey and find similar headlines: "Vote Is Tomorrow on $103 Million School Building Plan" or "Classrooms Are Busting at the Seams" or "Property Taxes Take a Huge Hike, No End in Sight." These headlines can be…
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District may hold off on redistricting until 2003 Wasser: Too late to make changes for September 2002
Staff Writer By dave benjamin District may hold off on redistricting until 2003 Wasser: Too late to make changes for September 2002 FREEHOLD — It may be too late in the 2001-02 school year to implement significant redistricting moves in time for September. Teresa Rafferty, the Freehold Regional High School District’s public information coordinator, told…
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Guest Column Joan Leimbach Howell residents must be vocal in support of pupils
Guest Column Joan Leimbach Howell residents must be vocal in support of pupils Contrary to what the other towns in the Freehold Regional High School District (FRHSD) and the district’s Board of Education members may think, Howell citizens actually do care about where our children go to high school. We care very much about the…
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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. DOLORES PIQUETTE, 72, of Jackson, died Dec. 30 in Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood. Mrs. Piquette was born in Spring Lake Heights and lived in Howell before moving…
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Explore extraterrestrial life at planetarium
Explore extraterrestrial life at planetarium Discover our galaxy and learn about life in the universe at the Robert J. Novins Planetarium at Ocean County College, Hooper Avenue, Toms River. The planetarium will present three shows through Feb. 3. The Living Universe explores how we might find other civilizations and how we might communicate with them.…
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Redistricting no easy task, but necessary
Redistricting no easy task, but necessary To no one’s surprise, a redistricting proposal put forth by a citizens advisory committee that was appointed by the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education met with condemnation from some members of the public when it was unveiled on Jan. 14. There may not be a more…
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Guest Column Michele S. Byers Some landowners embody spirit of giving
Guest Column Michele S. Byers Some landowners embody spirit of giving It sounds obvious, but a most critical component of preserving land is the landowner’s willingness to sell. It’s easy to focus on the dollars landowners receive when their property is preserved, but those numbers never tell the whole story. Landowners often accept less than…
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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. JAMES McPAUL, 68, of the Morganville section of Marlboro, died Dec. 27 at Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune. Born in County Donegal, Ireland, he lived in Elizabeth…
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Jackson Township woman grateful for good Samaritan’s help
Lost and found! I was shopping in the Stop and Shop supermarket. After shopping I walked out to my car and couldn’t locate it. I hit the panic button and was sure I would have to walk home. A young man came out of the hardware store and asked if I needed help. I have…
