Her slimmer bottom is so out of the club
Are We There Yet?
Lori Clinch
     I’ve decided that I’d be toothpick-thin by now if it weren’t for food. In fact, I gained 5 pounds yesterday simply walking past a cake. I’ll admit I may have had a small sliver and was then forced to slice off another sliver in order to even up the row. Yet, I’m sure most of the weight gain occurred
More ...

Yesteryear
      100 years ago The committee of the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders to whom was referred certain bills against the county for fees for committing persons to the county jail, and the county auditor, attended by counsel of the board, met in the freeholders’ room in the courthouse in Freehold
More ...

CARTOON
Read the Story...

For the record
     James McNamara is a veteran of Desert Storm and a retired Marine Corps corporal. Information about his rank and service were incorrect in June 1 photograph caption in the News Transcript.
More ...

Republican machine has not made real changes
Your Turn
Steven Sukel Guest Column
     The ultimate chutzpah is said to come from the person who kills his parents and then pleads for pity because he is an orphan. Marlboro Mayor Robert Kleinberg seems to have borrowed from that cliché with a twist — the overwhelming corruption that has enveloped Marlboro stems primarily from the action
More ...

Grads of 2005 should ‘endeavor to persevere’
Coda
Greg Bean
     There’s a moment in the classic Clint Eastwood movie “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” when the old Cherokee warrior, Lone Watie, is talking about his tribe’s defeat at the hands of white soldiers.
More ...