Retirement Postponed Committee to Seek the Traffic Signal, Board Secretary Paul Sparta Said Last Week
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SPORTS MATAWAN PREfr p,,R . 1 6 5 M A I N ST L I B R A R Y m a t a w a n , n .T 0 7 7 4 7 SERVING ABERDEEN,HAZLET, KEYPORT AND MATAWAN Page 40 DECEMBER 29, 1993 25 CENTS VOLUME 23, NUMBER 52 S c h o o ls in sea rch fo r sid e w a lk s BY MARILYN DUFF Staff Writer T he Hazlet Board of Education is trying to get sidewalks installed along stretches of two major roads, South Laurel Avenue and Union A venue. The board also wants a traffic signal installed at the intersection of Middle Road and Fleetwood Drive, the site of an October traffic fatality involving a pedestrian. The intersection has been the scene of other accidents, according to school o fficials. The problem is that the board would Matawan residents Robert Ziegler (I) and Dominick Jiosi, who were both retired, say they had to take mainte like the township to take the lead in pur nance jobs at the Matawan Train Station in order to pay their increasing property taxes. (Photo by Rich Schultz) suing both matters and the township thinks it is up to the board to do so. The board contacted the township Sept. 21 about the sidewalks and about a month later about the traffic signal. The board plans to again ask the Retirement postponed committee to seek the traffic signal, Board Secretary Paul Sparta said last week. He needs more information before Ziegler, who raised his family in the Broad Street home he pursing the sidewalk matter further, he Seniors say rising taxes purchased 40 years ago, said he has no immediate plans to said. move out of the borough. The board believes sidewalks are drove them back to w ork “M y family has lived in Matawan for 100 years,” he said. needed along a lengthy east-side stretch “But they seem to be forcing me to move.” of South Laurel Avenue between Bauer BY LAUREN JAEGER Avenues and Hopkins Terrace and along The senior citizen said that he has to take $700 out of his sections of Union Avenue on either side Staff W riter pension check each month just to pay for taxes, water and of Middle Road, from Minuteman Drive sewer. to Angela Circle. even years ago, Robert Ziegler was looking forward “That is put away before anything,” Ziegler said. “M y light The sidewalks would benefit students to the care-free life of retirement. The mortgage was bill is the heating bill.” who walk to school and whose courtesy paid off, finally; the kids were grown. W hat the Ziegler’s two buddies, both senior citizens, also took jobs busing was eliminated this year. But it Matawan resident didn’t expect, however, was to be at the Matawan Train Station in order to meet their escalating would benefit other residents as well, ac on the job at age 69 — so that he could pay his ever- b ills . Sparta noted. increasing tax bills. Dom inick Jiosi, 62, a resident of Broad Street for 15 years, Board member Joseph Cooney He and two co-workers say it’s increasingly difficult for worked as a truck driver and member of the Teamsters Union brought the matter up at last week’s reg senior citizens to afford Matawan taxes. And, they are angry for 22 years before he was forced into early retirement about ular board meeting, saying he was con that some property owners have failed to pay their fair share three years ago. fused about the committee wanting the o f the b ill. “I was a trucker and we used to haul for Sears,” he said. board to acquire land needed for the “Two years ago, we had to borrow money to pay the “I’m getting a small pension and I ’m going to start collecting sidewalks, instead of the township doing taxes,” said Ziegler, referring to himself and his wife, Mary. Social Security in March or April.” it. “So two years ago, I took a maintenance job at the Matawan Life as a retiree was nothing like he had envisioned. To The board’s request to the township Railroad Station.” Continued on page 6 Continued on page 8 Can you* "Find th e Fake" ad? 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