Parents urged to apply for insurance
     As parents, teachers and leaders in New Jersey, we do everything we can to provide for our children, but we know many still go without the health-care coverage they need. Too many New Jersey children could be heading back to school this fall with well-stocked backpacks, but without health insurance.
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Former superintendent shouldn't be paid
     Why in God's name and in the interest of good conscience is Middletown continuing to pay the salary of the ex-superintendent of schools, David Witmer ("Witmer still being paid in Middletown," Sept. 7)? He is accused of misappropriating $23,000. He is under investigation. He should be indefinitely su
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Keyport makeover will be complete in November
     Isn't the newly painted Keyport water tower, off exit 117 on the GSP, spiffy? Fresh paint, free of indiscriminate commercial graffiti (advertising) saying to the viewer: this is Keyport and Keyport is American. And, Americans espouse democracy. So what more needs to be said?
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Fire depts. should carry sobriety-testing equipment
     Karen E. Bowes' article of Aug. 23 ("DWI fireman suspended") stated Wayne Lawson, a Keyport firefighter, was charged driving while intoxicated on his way home from putting out the fire at the Keyport Fishery restaurant in town. Mr. Lawson - who has served as a volunteer firefighter in Keyport - was
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