• Mat. team holding their own in legion league play

    BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Staff Writer The youthful Matawan High School junior American Legion team has held its own playing in the Monmouth County American Legion Baseball League. Clockwise from top: Middletown Mariner Megan Loh (left) competes against Erika Brown in a relay race during a meet at Candlewood Swim Club in Howell on July 18.…

  • Finance committee is needed in Middletown

    In a recent letter regarding Committeeman Sean Byrnes’ proposal to create a finance committee in Middletown, the writer failed to understand Mr. Byrnes’ reasoning and the real value that a finance committee would provide to Middletown taxpayers. Committeeman Byrnes and Committeeman Patrick Short have been advocating a finance committee for more than a year. Mr.…

  • Girl from Costa Rica proud of Keyport school system

    Coming from Costa Rica at the age of 9, I was worried how the Keyport community would treat me. I came into a different country with different people and worst of all, a totally different language. Fearful, I entered Keyport Central School to finish my third-grade year. That being said, I’ve been going to Keyport…

  • We need to preserve the institution of marriage

    In this once-proud country, marriage took a backseat to cheating and infidelity. Just about everyone from our politicians on down are exercising it on a regular basis. Good marriages, family values, responsibilities and obligations became things of the past, and living together without being married became the way of life. Why? Because the younger generation…

  • Funding education in N.J. has been a failure

    The current system of funding education in New Jersey — which relies almost exclusively on property taxes — has been a dismal failure. It has been a major contributing factor to New Jersey’s unenviable distinction of having the highest property taxes in the country, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the property tax bill and has…

  • Adult students mark an ending … and a beginning

    Brookdale’s Adult Basic Education students graduate BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer With praise from their instructors and friends and families looking on with pride, more than 200 students marked the completion of Brookdale Community College’s Adult Basic Education (ABE) program last week. Kevin Dohorty (second from left) stands with other graduates during Brookdale’s Adult Basic…

  • BOE plans for new kindergarten classrooms

    BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — The Board of Education hopes to have two new kindergarten classrooms ready by the start of the school year, but emergency plans are in place if construction doesn’t take place this summer. The board authorized Sonnenfeld and Trocchia Architects to submit plans to the state Department of Education…

  • Oh yes, it’s ladies night, and the feeling is right

    Coda • GREG BEAN This presentation of the Greg Bean Common Sense Award goes to New Jersey Senate Republican leader Tom Kean, who has struck a blow against stupid bureaucratic intervention in the private sector. Specifically, Kean — who represents Essex, Union, Somerset and Morris counties — called on state Democrats last week to support…

  • NPS violates public trust with Ft. Hancock lease

    Guest Column • Peter P. O’Such Jr. After almost 10 years of observing the National Park Service’s (NPS) actions in the procurement for the Fort Hancock buildings, I believed that the NPS was incapable of sinking any lower ethically and legally. I was wrong. The NPS has once again violated the public trust as the…

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