• Mary A. Leshinsky

    Mrs. Leshinsky, 83, of Freehold, died July 22, 2010 at home. She was born in Trenton and had resided in Freehold since 1949. She was a certified nurse’s aide at The Manor from 1985 until her retirement in 2000. Mrs. Leshinsky is survived by her husband, Stanley J. Leshinsky; two sons and daughters in-law, David…

  • Mary Gorbich

    Mrs. Gorbich, 90, of Howell, died July 14, 2010, at Geraldine Thompson Health Care Center, Wall. She was born in Manville and had lived in Farmingdale prior to moving to Howell. She was a homemaker and a Sunday school teacher. Mrs. Gorbich was predeceased by her husband, Walter, in 2006, and a daughter, Carolyn Ann…

  • Helen M. Cannon

    Mrs. Cannon, 78, of Jacobstown, died July 5, 2010. A native of Chicago, Ill, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mundelein College in Illinois and her Master of Arts in education from the University of Southern California. She worked in education for over 40 years, retiring as a teacher at St. Mary’s Catholic…

  • Frances Marie Kostbar

    Mrs. Kostbar, 94, of Manalapan, died May 21, 2010, at home. Prior to her retirement in 1987, she was a school bus driver for the Manalapan Englishtown Regional Schools. She had previously worked as a floor lady in a lamp factory in South River. Mrs. Kostbar was a lifelong self-employed farmer and road stand operator.…

  • Writer says it is time to end the crusade against racism

    In his July 28 Your Turn guest column, “U.S. Needs ‘Uniculturalism,’ Not More Multiculturalism,” Jim Fitzmaurice did an excellent job of pointing out the shortcomings and frauds of the multiculturalism “religion.” However, in making some racerelated statements he shows that he is a victim, perhaps subconsciously, of the very dogma he decries. He wrote: “It…

  • Reader responds to letter on ‘uniculturalism’

    Iread with interest the Your Turn guest column “U.S. Needs ‘Uniculturalism,’ Not More Multiculturalism,” (July 28) by Jim Fitzmaurice, trying to understand his position, as the writing seemed erudite and the thinking serious. Eventually, however, it became clear that under the rhetoric is simple bombast. Evidently, the man suffering from “a paucity of melanin,” the…

  • First lady Michelle Obama should have considered vacation in USA

    Iwas very disappointed to read that Michelle Obama took her younger daughter on a vacation to Spain’s Costa Del Sol while her older daughter is at sleep-away camp. While Mrs. Obama is a private citizen and has the right to travel where she wants, as first lady of this nation, I would think that she…

  • Exemption sought for existing contracts

    The Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education is reaching out to the governor and legislators to ask for an exemption to the recently imposed 2 percent tax levy cap for contracts that were negotiated and signed prior to this cap. Marlboro, in particular, has been chastised for what appeared on the surface to be…

  • No, seriously, we take your complaint verrrry seriously

    CODA GREG BEAN Regular readers might remember the fun we had with Sears a while back because it was impossible to discover what hours their service center on Route 1 in East Brunswick was open without actually driving there to find out. I wanted to drop my lawnmower off for a tune-up, but I found…

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