• Irving Scheps

    Mr. Scheps, 83, of Marlboro, died Aug. 31, 2010, at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge. He was a corporal in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from Rutgers University. Prior to his retirement in 1993, he was the controller and chief financial officer of…

  • Nancy Marie Marchese

    Ms. Marchese, 50, of Holmdel, died July 30, 2010, at home after a battle with cancer. She worked for the Holmdel Board of Education as a special education monitor. Surviving are her parents, Robert and Regina Schutz Fitzgerald of Livingston; three daughters, Kristen, Melissa and Nicole Marchese, all of Holmdel; her sisters and brothers, Peggy…

  • Wayne R. Higgins

    Mr. Higgins, 60, of Hazlet, died July 20, 2010, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. He was a warehouse supervisor for Olivetti Corp. in Somerset. He was a member and past exalted ruler of the Elks Association of Keyport- Matawan. Mr. Higgins was predeceased by his parents, James and Pauline Sherier Higgins; and two brothers…

  • Antonio Petruzzella

    Mr. Petruzzella, 91, of Hazlet, died July 18, 2010, at home. Born in Italy, he was a retired longshoreman for International Longshoremen’s Association in Hoboken. Mr. Petruzzella was predeceased by a son, Leo Petruzzella, in 1971; and his wife, Raffaella, in 2007. Surviving is a daughter, Maria Corrado and her husband, Robert, of Hazlet; a…

  • Cellie M. Parrish

    Ms. Parrish, 84, of Hazlet, died July 27, 2010, at Regency Park Nursing Home. A daughter, Eddie Mae Robinson, predeceased her. Surviving are her sisters and brothers, Rosie M. Cullen of Hazlet, Mattie Robinson of the Bronx, N.Y., Willie Jones of Boston and Alonso Jones of Boston; three grandchildren; a great-grandson; and a host of…

  • Resident applauds efforts to rein in union contracts

    Ifind it ironic that Democrat County Committeewoman Marilyn Tuohy chastised Middletown Mayor Gerry Scharfenberger for supporting an Assembly bill that would subject union political contributions to the state pay-to-play laws (July 29, “Mayor should focus on reducing tax burden.”) While it is understandable that Ms. Tuohy would defend municipal unions who are major contributors to…

  • Mosque controversy might provide ‘seminal event’

    ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world.” Could this be the voice that is being channeled to us by those whose lives were taken on 9/11? Theirs are the only voices that have a right to be heard in the great controversy surrounding the establishment of a Moslem cultural center/mosque close to…

  • What’s in a name? Plenty

    Amid the rhetoric unleashed over the demand by Muslims to build an Islamic mosque just two blocks from where thousands of Americans, including several personal friends of mine, were killed by Islamic fundamentalists, some items have been overlooked. Yes, we have religious freedom in America. Yet, this is not a question of religious freedom but…

  • Call her anything but don’t call her ma’am

    CODA GREG BEAN Odds and ends as I pack for the Labor Day weekend. Should we go with flipflops and board shorts, or the rubber Wellies, raincoat and water wings? It’s unfortunate that all the rain expected as I write this will come too late to save my grass and all my expensive decorative plants,…

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