• Private sector employees get their share of benefits

    This is in response to Joel Drobes’ letter to the editor (“Teachers Should Be Rewarded Based on Merit,” Tri-Town News, Dec. 16) regarding teaching and teachers in general. Mr. Drobes obviously has problems with not only teachers’ salaries, but the number of days per year they work as well as the length of the school…

  • Privatization works for only corporations, politicans

    There is a big push from “less-is-best” deficit hawks who claim we have to privatize many traditionally government run programs to reduce our deficits. For example, Gov. Chris Christie’s carefully culled pro-corporate “advisory” panel proposed that we even privatize our state parks, among other things, to save money. Nonsense. Our state’s fiscal crisis has nothing…

  • Support business by supporting the chamber of commerce

    Iin the Dec. 16 edition of the Tri- Town News, our Jackson Township Councilman Mike Kafton is asking people to support their community merchants during these difficult economic times. Mr. Kafton is the owner of multiple businesses in town. He talks about making “an investment in our community” and to “let it start with your…

  • Jackson menorah lighting was a special community event

    The community of Jackson, with the members of Bat Shalom Hadassah, celebrated the fifth annual lighting of the Jackson Hanukkah menorah on Dec. 6 at Town Hall. The holiday season in our township is one of joyful anticipation, made possible by the dedication of our mayor and his administration, the directors and staffs of the…

  • Seniors want to keep seeing their doctors

    Seniors have earned their Medicare. We have earned the security of knowing that we can keep seeing the doctors we have come to trust and are comfortable with. Unfortunately, Congress created a flawed system to pay Medicare doctors. Unless Congress takes action to address this, seniors could lose their doctors and future generations could face…

  • Open space preservation helps protect bay

    Recently, the Ocean County Board of Freeholders took control of almost 300 acres of pristine woodlands near Route 528 and Perrineville Road in Jackson. That parcel, located near the headwaters of the Toms River, joins more than 235,000 acres of land that is protected and forever preserved here in Ocean County. What makes that number…

  • The mailbag: Readers weigh in on Palin’s big-game hunt

    CODA GREG BEAN People who write columns are nowhere without readers, and as this year ends, it’s appropriate to give some of mine a last word. Feedback from last week’s column on the general ineptitude of Sarah Palin as a big-game hunter was a mixed bag. Some was from folks taking me to task, some…

  • Business expansion OK’d

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — The construction of an 1,800-square-foot addition to the existing Down To Earth Landscaping Inc. facility on Wright-DeBow Road near Ernest Way has been approved by the Jackson Planning Board in an 8-0 vote. The addition will be a steel shed, insulated on the inside, with overhead doors and…

  • Three men face burglary charges

    JACKSON — Three men have been charged with conspiracy to commit burglary, theft, and receiving stolen property following an incident at the Four Seasons Metedeconk Lakes adult community. One of the suspects is a resident of the adult community. As of Dec. 16, two of the three individuals who were charged in connection with the…

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