Tag: Mark Rosman – In the News
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Eternal vigilance is needed to forestall another attack
I do not have to tell you that Sept. 11, 2001, was a beautiful Tuesday morning. Bright sunshine, warm temperatures, technically still summer. I can picture that morning today as if I was still there. I was in our newsroom at an office complex in Freehold Township that Tuesday morning, working on deadline to produce…
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Father and son go ‘Phishing’ on beach in Atlantic City
So there I was at noon on Aug. 14, sitting in my man cave and thinking about the exciting Saturday night I had planned. I would watch the newest Hallmark rom-com, text (bother) a couple of friends and nosh on Yodels and Twizzlers. Going phishing was the farthest thing from my mind. I knew I…
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Emmett’s Inn owner gave people nights to remember forever
It was early April 1978. The legal drinking age in New Jersey was 18 and I had turned 18 on March 27. For months, a co-worker at my after-school job had been telling me about a fantastic bar with live music called Emmett’s Inn in Jamesburg (it was actually in Monroe Township). And so on…
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Lack of a ruling on Manalapan crematorium case is frustrating
I am trying to understand how an employee can be asked to do something on her job and after two years of inaction still decline to tell her boss – the public – why she has not done what she was asked to do. In October 2017, attorneys representing the Manalapan Township Committee and the…
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Two towns for the ages – from the Revolution to 2016
By Mark Rosman On consecutive nights during a recent week, I covered meetings of the Allentown Borough Council and the Englishtown Borough Council. I may have been the only reporter in New Jersey that week who covered meetings in two communities that existed prior to 1707. Just typing the date “1707” is almost ridiculous. After…