• Business Briefs

    Burlington Coat Factory in Freehold Township is collecting donations to support the American Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development Fund. Monetary donations will be accepted at the store, 3684 Route 9 north, and at any of the more than 430 Burlington Coat Factory stores nationwide. Donations to the American Red Cross will support emergency relief…

  • U.S. Supreme Court says that corporations are people too

    Coda • GREG BEAN This is a dark day in America. Two weeks ago, I wrote that the U.S. Supreme Court was expected to do away with most of the laws that limit campaign contributions to candidates and much political advertising by corporations and special interest groups. And late last week, the court did just…

  • Retired teacher thanks doctors for finding some answers

    I retired from teaching (29 years in Marlboro) in 2008 with the objective to become healthier and fit. My daughter, Peggy, was to be married in August so I joined the gym and had a personal trainer. It wasn’t long before I started to lose weight and injured my left leg muscle trying to perform…

  • Abbott district concept must be eliminated in New Jersey

    In our state of New Jersey to my knowledge there are about 600 school districts that are funded with school aid by the state of New Jersey to offset the burden of property taxes everyone has to pay as residents and taxpayers of the state. For many years now, again to the best of my…

  • Resident upset with plan to cut course choices in high schools

    Does the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education have any shame left? On the very day that both houses of the state Legislature unanimously passed what is called the “Wasser Bill,” prohibiting educators from obtaining funding for bogus degrees, the board announced they were cutting 15 courses from the curriculum and warned of…

  • Another side to the health care debate

    I feel compelled to rebut Harold Zwick’s letter to the editor (“America Should Have Universal Health Care,” News Transcript, Jan. 13). Mr. Zwick feels that the new healthscare scheme being rushed through Congress will keep Medicare solvent.   This is not true; it takes $500 million out of Medicare, adds more than $1 trillion in…

  • Anthony Ritota

    Mr. Ritota, 88, of Toms River, died Jan. 18, 2010, at Van Dyke Hospice and Palliative Care Center, Toms River. He was a salesman and manager of the Caldwell Men’s Shop, Caldwell, until his retirement. Mr. Ritota also served as commissioner for the Orange Housing Authority. He was predeceased by two brothers, Dante and Michael,…

  • Gerald “Jerry” Edward Jankowski

    Mr. Jankowski, 71, a resident of Howell for 32 years, died Jan. 16, 2010, at home. He was the senior tree trimmer for the Howell Township Department of Public Works for the past 20 years. Prior to that he was a former grounds crew worker for Eastern Airlines. Mr. Jankowski volunteered with A.B.C. and Snaps,…

  • Annie Mae Holmes

    Mrs. Holmes, 98, a resident of Freehold for the past 60 years, died Jan. 20, 2010, at home. She worked as a presser for Louis Brodsky & Son in South River for more than 30 years prior to her retirement in 1971. Mrs. Holmes was a member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. She…

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