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Monthly Archives: August 2014

$7 Million Only PART Of The Cost?

Rebel With A Cause

Were We In The Same Storm?

 

Voter Decision Guide

Submitted by a reader. I hope you find it useful.  

Weekly Hit Count

Thought For The Day:

Since it will be the responsibility of whoever is sworn in as mayor next January to get the pavilions built, I think the smart thing to do is to give the job to the lowest bidder. Doherty bid $7 million. Bean bid $4.1 million.

Brendan Write

Brendan Read.  Hmm.  We regular attendees of the Borough Council meetings might wonder if that’s a name or a sentence.  (For those of you who don’t go to the meetings, the joke is that Mr. Read speaks often at the meetings but never actually talks to us.  At every appearance he simply reads out loud […]

But Kenny, Tell Us What You Really Think

Former Mayor Ken Pringle has a letter in today’s Coast Star.  It is reprinted here with the permission of the Coast Star Newspapers. Submitted by KENNETH E. PRINGLE Belmar Mayor Matt Doherty gave what is by now an all-too-familiar response in last week’s Coast Star article about the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s findings that his administration […]

FEMA Fib?

The numbers just don’t add up! Central to both sides’ arguments about what we should pay to build the pavilions is the $3.6 million that FEMA is supposed to supply.  Even opponents of the $7 million bond plan to use the $3.6 million we’ve been repeatedly told we were going to get. Nobody had any […]

Maybe We Better Vote Yes

Got this in the mail today: Actually, even though it’s a bad idea to bond $7 million for this project we better do what the governor says or otherwise something like this might happen: