Guest Column
Manuel Blasco
‘Fix was in from beginning’
     New Jersey style politics are alive and well in Middletown. In July of 2001, the Middletown Township Committee (comprised of then Mayor Joan Smith, Deputy Mayor Rick Brodsky and committee members Patrick Parkinson, Rosemarie Peters and Raymond O’Grady) held a vote that seemingly downsized the town c...
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Guest Column
Gerald F. Gergasko
Reader gives bad grade for snowmobile oversight
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Guest Column
John Frattellone
Zero, not smart, growth needed for Middletown
     The battle regarding the proposed town square development is being waged on several fronts. The editorial section of the local newspapers has been serving as an active source for propaganda.
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Be wary of phone calls misrepresenting the facts
     Political ads contain the words, "Paid for by the Committee to Elect ‘so and so’ " because they are required to do so by law. But now a political group has found a way to promote its candidates and smear its opponents, while posing as an independent polling organization.
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Town center will bring noise, filth and corruption
     What seems to be forgotten when it comes to the town center debate is what brought people to Middletown in the first place. Many current residents, including myself, are originally from Hoboken, Jersey City or other locales in Hudson County.
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Misleading phone messages mar truth about candidates
     Russell Dronne and Larry Fink have worked for a decade to stop suburban sprawl from eating up the last of Holmdel’s open space. Indeed, they led the effort to educate the community about sprawl by forming CILU (Citizens for Informed Land Use), thereby getting many of us involved in opposing overdeve...
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Resident decries choice of circus as fund-raiser
     The offensive odor that swept into Hazlet with the Carson and Barnes Circus had nothing to do with the elephants or any other unfortunate animal performers.
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