• Youngsters with hair loss get help from Howell teen

    BY THOMAS CASTLES Staff Writer Annemarie Bartow HOWELL — Annemarie Bartow, 16, visited a salon on Feb. 20 to have her hair cut for only the fourth time in her life. Not an inch of her hair went to waste. Annemarie, who is a junior at Howell High School, has been donating 1 foot or…

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    CPAC’s message to Christie: You’re not our kind of people GREG BEAN I t was the great American philosopher Groucho Marx who sent the Friars Club this terse message by telegram: “Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member.” Last week, New…

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     The 18th annual Mayor’s Cup golf outing will be held on April 29 at the Eagle Oaks Golf and Country Club, Howell. Proceeds from the outing will assist families and children in the local community. To register for the event or to inquire about sponsorship or volunteer opportunities, contact Ralph Hoffman at 732-938-4500, ext.…

  • Doctor will be missed by patients he treated for decades

    I t was February 1965 and my 11-monthold daughter was sick. Living in Howell for six months, we had a pediatrician in Lakewood. Our doctor was at Paul Kimball Hospital and it was a snowstorm. We called the state police and were told about a doctor in Farmingdale The police gave us the number, which…

  • Right wing seems out of touch with most Americans

    Sen. Marco Rubio’s recent response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech, unfortunately, was just a replication of basically the same old talking points from the last failed election. Sen. Rubio’s sweaty, water-gulping speech would not have made the “Great Communicator” proud. The Republican television network, Fox News, excused Sen. Rubio’s performance, saying…

  • Support the Special Olympics New Jersey ‘home team’

    On behalf of Special Olympics New Jersey, I wish to express my sincere appreciation for the support of Gov. Chris Christie and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno with the signing of bill S1855. This bill designates our organization as one of the New Jersey charitable funds residents may choose to endorse with a donation on their…

  • Former freeholder: Deal helped a GOP friend

    I n 2009, New Jersey voters supported a $400 million open space bond issue referendum at the polls, but unfortunately, some elected officials saw this as a financial opportunity for personal gain — a shortcut to the American Dream. There is a farmland issue right here in Monmouth County that has residents outraged. Taxpayers throughout…

  • Burry: Farmland deal is about preservation

    George Spodak has written to your newspaper and made an inference that I feel requires a response. Anyone who knows me personally or by reputation knows full well of my passion and my belief in the importance of the preservation of farmland and open space in Monmouth County. It is because of that passion that…

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    The great egret, seen here at the Forsythe National Wildlife Reserve, Oceanville, carries a burden none of us can comprehend. Just imagine how it makes its cousin, the mediocre egret, feel. BILL PATRICK/www.maiseyimages.com

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