• Samaritan Center thanks those who supported food drive

    The Samaritan Center board of trustees wishes to thank all who participated in seeing that the Samaritan Center was a recipient of such a generous amount of nonperishable food from the Post Office Food Drive this year: the postal patrons who gave the food, the post office employees who collected to food, the employees at…

  • Resident offers suggestion on gov.’s plan for 2.5% cap

    At the public portion of the Monmouth County Freeholders meeting of June 10, I requested an amendment to a resolution supporting a 2.5 cap on property tax increases. As it currently is understood, property taxes would be raised to a limit of 2.5 percent, after which a binding referendum would be required for any greater…

  • Officials can control all expenses if they want to do so

    Iwould like to respond to Howell Mayor Robert Walsh and the Howell Township Council’s explanation and justification on the municipal tax hike proposed for the 2010 Howell budget. Mayor Walsh said he would challenge anyone to say the tax is going up too much. He has the right to say it, but the fact is…

  • Now is not the time for salary increases to be given to teachers

    My tax money pays Marlboro teachers. Obviously Marlboro teachers are performing an important job and judging by all available facts and statistics they are doing a fine job. The question is how much money should we pay them? Why not use myself as the measuring gauge? I have first and second engineering degrees and I…

  • Speak up now to save h.s. athletic association

    It is sad that an elected politician has made his major political priority an attack of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With all of the problems confronting our society in local, county, state and federal governments, state Assemblyman John Burzichelli (D-Gloucester) continues his relentless effort to destroy the NJSIAA in an attempt to…

  • Golden Triangle not so golden after all is done

    CODA GREG BEAN T he East Brunswick Township Council’s announcement that it was nearing a settlement with Toll Brothers over the disputed Golden Triangle development did not exactly produce a sigh of relief around town. The terms of the proposed settlement frankly raised more questions than they answered. And since this is being written before…

  • Board approves two contracts

    MARLBORO — No member of the public spoke about contracts for the assistant superintendent of schools or the school district’s business administrator during a public hearing regarding their contracts for the 2010-11 school year. During the Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education’s June 8 workshop meeting, a public hearing was held on the contracts…

  • Child porn charges lodged against Howell man, 28

    On June 3, Michael Bryk, 28, of Howell, was arrested by detectives from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and charged with one count of second degree endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of fourth-degree endangering the welfare of a child. According to a press release, the charges result from an investigation conducted…

  • Howell man charged in child porn case

    Detectives from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office arrested Paul DeSantis, 53, of Howell, in April and charged him with six counts of fourth-degree endangering the welfare of a child and six counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child. According to a press release, the charges are the result of an investigation, which was…

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