Hey, readers: a fellow Freehold-area blogger has just posted their first syndicated post on our site– a restaurant review of A Little Bit of Cuba in Freehold Township. You can follow the link to their full post on JerseyBites.com.
Full disclosure: I occasionally write Hudson County restaurant reviews for JB.
Thanks to the readers for keeping an eye on the weekend updates– I’ve unpublished the community contribution that lacked relevance to the Freehold area. As you know, all are welcome to register and post their Freehold news here, let’s just try to keep it Freehold-specific!
Have youngin’s interested in journalism or social media or getting out of the house on a Wednesday night? Come hang out with me tonight at the Freehold Public Library at 7:30. 12 & up.
Traffic light at South & Main is malfunctioning, according to a reader– avoid the intersection for now. Wonder if it has anything to do with last week’s electrical fire.
Free Preview Lesson for the Yamaha Music School at Freehold Music on Aug 7th, 2010. Interactive group music lessons for kids ages 3-8. Visit freeholdmusic.com or call 732-462-4730 for more info!
So Wal-mart is expanding, huh? Will you shop at the merchandise giant for your groceries next year? Or stay loyal to a favorite local purveyor? Answer our survey below or add it here in the chatter.
I will shop there for certain things, Sams Club for the big stuff, Foodtown for other things, Top Tomato for even other things, Wegmans for more other things….just like always!
In other exciting news: we’ve got some new community contributors posting stories to the site regularly. Interested in contributing? Just click the ”Sign Up” button above the Chatter and you’ll be able to post your own news story.
Want to pitch an idea or get some feedback? You can always reach me at colleen@injersey.com.
The news that a federal judge blocked key parts of Arizona's controversial immigration law from taking effect provoked strong reactions from Shore activists on both sides of the debate Wednesday.
Jackie Biddle Shuler, a Long Branch nurse, lawyer and a member of the Latino Bar Association, called the ruling "a start."
Great to see people speaking out for comprehensive immigration reform!
With huge and rising unemployment, what a perfect time to legalize a vast number of new people low in skills and high in need. That’s a super idea.
Also, with our huge budget deficits putting our economy on the brink of a disaster a la Greece, what a great time to legalize millions more unskilled and uneducated people. A nice bonus is that they will be eligible to receive a huge range of government social services, though they will almost all be among the 40% of people who pay no federal income taxes at all. Also isn’t it terrific that they will become eligible to bring in their uncles, nieces, parents, etc. Some of these folks probably need kidney transplants and bypass surgery and so forth?––we can pay for all that stuff too!
Also, it will be swell that our schools–already sinking in international comparisons–will have lots more problem cases to challenge them!
Mass immigration of unskilled people has already approximately *doubled* our poverty rate–why stop there?
I can promise that this ruling, which if anyone actually read the ruling, will be overturned by the Supreme Court in the next year. The Arizona law only complimented Federal Law, thus not one Constitutional Federal mandate was broken by this law.
The States have a right to protect their sovereignty and if it takes going after those that willfully break our laws and invade our country, than so be it.
Instead of the Federal Government wasting time and money with fighting Arizona, they should have been helping Arizona and deporting those that have broken the immigration laws. If not, then the President has broken his obligation to his Constitutional duties and should be impeached as such.
Winter track and junior varsity cheerleading will not be offered in the Freehold Regional High School District this coming school year, a district administrator announced Monday.
Sean Boyce, assistant superintendent for business administration, added Monday that the sports could continue on a pay-to-participate basis. The district's ice hockey program already operates on this model.
Mayor Dorothy H. Avallone's decades of service to Freehold Township were celebrated Tuesday, when she announced she plans to step down from the Township Committee July 13.
"Dorothy is an inspiration to a number of people. She's been a godsend to me," said Committeeman Anthony Ammiano.
Avallone, 80, has served almost continuously on the [...]
Dorothy and Ken are most highly beloved by all past and present employees of Freehold Township. Their honesty, integrity, and optimism have inspired us, as well as countless others.
Chad Horne was supposed to graduate from college, find a good job and raise a few kids. He'd play a lot of golf and maybe even win that Nobel Peace Prize he dreamed about.
Instead, the 22-year-old's brief life was snuffed out one January night, taken by [...]
Unresolved issues between the borough and a group representing Freehold landlords could soon head to court if the two sides cannot come to an agreement.
"I believe it's going to come to a head real soon," said Christopher LoPresti, a founder of the Freehold Landlord Association of New Jersey.
When Veronica Ross moved to the Rug Mill Towers, she was not happy.
Crowds loitering outside the building, graffiti on the walls, drunk and disoriented people roaming around - Ross says she found all this when she first arrived at the affordable housing complex four years ago.
Leaders of a new landlord group had one word Monday for proposed changes to the borough’s rental property/landlord licensing regulations: Shocked.
“I’m just shocked that we’re proposing to amend the ordinance for three kind of minor issues, when there were major issues that we were discussing,” said Christopher LoPresti, a founding member of [...]
The landlords in Freehold are making money hand over fist. They rent to illegals, 10 or more people to a house or apartment. And they have the audacity to complain about $300 a year? You have to be kidding me! They are dragging Freehold down to a third world state of existence.
It’s great to see young people lending a helping hand. Diabetes continues to devastate such a significant amount of our population. Did you know there is a link between eye wellness and diabetes? Check out the newest edition of VSP’s ‘EyeFiles’ videos to see Bill Nye The Science Guy tell you all about it: http://ow.ly/1VVGw
The head of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority visited Clifton T. Barkalow Middle School on Thursday to highlight the release of $485,534 for capital projects in four township schools.
The money will cover 40 percent of the total expense for the improvements, the amount promised by the authority through its regular operating districts grant [...]
Borough school officials had a clear message for Bret Schundler Wednesday: Help!
Schundler, the state’s new education commissioner, visited Freehold Wednesday for a visit with school officials, who discussed the district’s financial situation and state aid issues. He was accompanied by 12th District legislators Sen. Jennifer Beck, Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande and Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon Jr.
Freehold officially became a Live Where You Work municipality Wednesday, ushering in a new incentive for local employees who want to own a home in the borough.
"We feel it's going to strengthen our community," Borough Councilman George Schnurr said Wednesday at a news conference to announce the borough's membership in the program.
Jackie Robinson and Myles Hutcherson were born in different eras and places. They loved different sports - baseball for Robinson, basketball for Hutcherson.
But what the two have in common, says Hutcherson's fourth-grade teacher, is character.
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Sharon Liu 5:33 pm on July 29, 2010 Permalink |
Great to see people speaking out for comprehensive immigration reform!
With huge and rising unemployment, what a perfect time to legalize a vast number of new people low in skills and high in need. That’s a super idea.
Also, with our huge budget deficits putting our economy on the brink of a disaster a la Greece, what a great time to legalize millions more unskilled and uneducated people. A nice bonus is that they will be eligible to receive a huge range of government social services, though they will almost all be among the 40% of people who pay no federal income taxes at all. Also isn’t it terrific that they will become eligible to bring in their uncles, nieces, parents, etc. Some of these folks probably need kidney transplants and bypass surgery and so forth?––we can pay for all that stuff too!
Also, it will be swell that our schools–already sinking in international comparisons–will have lots more problem cases to challenge them!
Mass immigration of unskilled people has already approximately *doubled* our poverty rate–why stop there?
reference: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090401623.html
Yes, Comprehensive Immigration Reform is a super idea to help things in this country!
Steven DiMartino 8:57 am on July 30, 2010 Permalink |
I can promise that this ruling, which if anyone actually read the ruling, will be overturned by the Supreme Court in the next year. The Arizona law only complimented Federal Law, thus not one Constitutional Federal mandate was broken by this law.
The States have a right to protect their sovereignty and if it takes going after those that willfully break our laws and invade our country, than so be it.
Instead of the Federal Government wasting time and money with fighting Arizona, they should have been helping Arizona and deporting those that have broken the immigration laws. If not, then the President has broken his obligation to his Constitutional duties and should be impeached as such.