• Rocco D’Alessandro

    Mr. D’Alessandro, 74, of Manalapan, died Aug. 17, 2010, at home. He was born in New York, and spent the last 26 years in Manalapan. Surviving are his wife, Anna; and two grandsons, John and Jason Casale. A funeral liturgy was held at Our Lady of Mercy Church, Englishtown. Arrangements were by the Freeman Manalapan…

  • Margaret Hurley Dwight

    Mrs. Dwight, 91, of Wall, died Aug. 10, 2010, at home. She was an assembler at Harwood Plastics, Farmingdale, retiring in 1977. She was also a caregiver for children throughout her entire life. Mrs. Dwight was predeceased by her first husband, Garfield Hurley; her second husband, Raymond Dwight; two sons, Francis Hurley and Robert Hurley;…

  • Kathleen Seese

    Kathleen Seese, 70, of Freehold Borough, died Aug. 8, 2010, at home. She was born in Kearny and lived in North Arlington before moving to Freehold seven years ago. Prior to retiring, she worked as a bookkeeper for C&J Glass, North Arlington. Surviving are a son, William; two nieces, Karen DeVoe and Diane Calabrese; and…

  • John J. Oswald

    Mr. Oswald, 68, of Belford, died Aug. 16, 2010, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. He was the founder and president of Oswald Enterprises Inc. and a member of the Community Advisory Board at Riverview Medical Center. Mr. Oswald was one of the founding members of the New Jersey chapter of the Lymphoma Research Foundation.…

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    Letters to the editor may be submitted to the News Transcript via fax at 732-780-4192 or sent via e-mail to [email protected]. Letters should be limited to 250 words; Your Turn guest columns should be limited to 750 words. All submissions may be edited for length, libel, content and grammar, and are subject to rejection. Anonymous…

  • Resident is not in favor of a mosque at ground zero

    After many thousands of Marines were killed in the early part of the Battle of Iwo Jima, the Marines raised a flag on Mount Suribachi to announce to the enemy and to the world that the Marines were victorious in the first leg of that battle to end Japanese control of that island. The raising…

  • 2.5 million women are victims of domestic violence each year

    For many men, their homes are their castles. But for many women in the United States, these castles are filled with pain and fear. These women are the victims of domestic violence and most of them feel far from secure in their homes, knowing their spouses could strike at any time. While the attacks of…

  • Manalapan resident realizes size does matter, for garbage cans

    After reading “Garbage Pickups Riling Up Residents,” (News Transcript, Aug. 18), I, too, would like to share my dissatisfaction with Manalapan Township and Waste Management. In the 39 years I have lived here, garbage disposal has never been an issue until Waste Management was hired. The first day they came around to pick up my…

  • School officials should not expect to be saved

    Arecent letter to the editor, “Exemption Sought for Existing Contracts,” over the signatures of Terry Spilken and David Abbott, president of the Marlboro Board of Education and superintendent of schools, respectively, shows how absolutely tone deaf politicians (yes, these two are just politicians, too) from towns, states and the federal government are when it comes…

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