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MATAWAN FREE PUB LIB Bulk Rate 165 MAIN ST U.S. Postage Paid BAYSHORE MATAWAN, NJ 07747 Greater Media Newspapers FEBRUARY 22, 1989 25 CEN TS VOLUME 19 NUMBER 8 S t a t e h o o p s t ip o f f Mater Dei High School basketball coach Keith Glass tosses up the ball to signify the start of the ‘Second Season:” the N JSIA A state playoffs. Getting ready to lead the Seraphs into battle are Jim Erhardt (next to Glass) and Steve Tango. In their opening- round game in the South Jersey Parochial B tournament, the Seraphs will play the Moorestown Friends. Mater Dei is one of 11 Independent area teams in state action, which begins Monday. For more, see Sports pages. s^ u e a ^ Le9'f ^ v:es'0 M 9 e T Photograph by Chet Gordon JL 2 FEBRUARY 22, 1989, THE INDEPENDENT CHSTONE. J C H S T Q M E QLJCHSTQNE 71.)U£HST()lM E I DM E r i V I D E O U U U H S T O N E T )EO H O M E V I D E O ' T O U C : h s t o n e . H O M I E V I D E O TOUCHSTO N E g d i T O U C H O M E V I D E i O ^ 0 0 H O N 1 i ________ H o n e T O U HOMW )EO H O 1 ) U C H S T O N T O U C H S T C i O M E V I D E O H O M E V I D U C H S T O N E T O U C H S T • O M E V I D E O H O M E V I C TONE fOUC HS TO N E [DEO H O M E V I D E O “Guaranteed Big Laughs!” — Good Morning America r TONE Touchstone Pictures presents in association with Silver Screen I D E O Partners III Bette Midler Lily Tomlin “Big Business" Music By Lee Holdridge Director of Photography Dean Cundey, A.S.C. Written By Dori Pierson & Marc Rubel Produced By Steve y / f I W v n j C Tisch Michael Peyser Directed By Jim Abrahams PG Parental : 3 U C H S T O N ' Guidance Suggested Some Material May Not Be Suitable For H O M E V I D E O HOM Children R tfiS Closed-Captioned for the hearing impaired t j J j J j by Captions. Inc. Los Angeles. C f '1 I i r r i i fM K tf *m*- AIRPORT PLA*A ATLANTIC VIDEO MIDDLETOWN HWY. 36, HAZI£T m*n fwn F&n fpti fpti hwy. 3 5 , north y^J KLJ 671-1818 FOR THE BEST IN M OVIE RENTALS ■ OPEN 7 DAYS FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE m n i INSIDE STORY THE INDEPENDENT, FEBRUARY 22, 1989 3 Mall fine-tuned The developers o f a proposed shop ping center at the site o f the Route 35 Drive-In continue to barter with Hazlet and state officials to finalize construction details. SEEPAGE 1 0 Will time stand still? Officials in both Holmdel and Key port are considering ordinances to preserve historic buildings. SEE PAGE 11 Students travel Two Aberdeen teenagers recently 3 visited refuseniks in the Soviet ■7'. Union. - Photograph by William Perlman SEEPAGE 1 2 LAND AT ISSUE Questions about riparian rights to land behind Keyport’s downtown business section have spurred controversy in the borough. Tab hammered out The property is the site of the proposed First Street extension, planned to revitalize the area. For stories about the extension, riparian rights, and the business community’s reaction to the issue, see Pages 16-17. After five hours o f discussion M on day. the Hazlet Township Committee came up with a budget likely to in crease the municipal tax rate by 5 cents. Parents condemn reduction in busing SEEPAGE 1 3 penses — which would save the district ing complete bus service at the expense of Classroom programs about $215,000 — is part of a large series of educational programs would be abdicating Critters cause woes cuts aimed at offsetting a budget deficit its responsibility to students. are m ore important, caused by the state’s decision to withhold “ W e either go in and cut educational pro Animal control is becoming a prob more than $487,000 in anticipated funding grams, or we deal with the busing issue,” she lem in Union Beach, a councilman Hazlet board says for Hazlet schools. saidi “We cannot justify transportation says. when we’re cutting back educational pro The state aid cut has left the board SEE PAGE 27 By Tim Hall _______ grams. These bus routes are not our respon searching for ways to balance its $19.3 sibility. The state says they’re not.” million budget, despite a proposed 32.2-cent HAZLET — A group of approximately In addition to the transportation cuts, the tax rate increase. board has approved a preliminary budget To call The Independent 250 people, angered by plans to eliminate busing for some students beginning next The volatile crowd repeatedly questioned that calls for the elimination o f five middle Advertising..................................5 42 -4 0 00 school year, appealed to the Board o f Edu the board on its decision to cut the transpor and elementary school teaching positions; Circulation ..................................2 54 -7 0 00 cation Tuesday to restore the service. tation budget, a move that some parents feel the termination of assistant coaches in cheerleading and indoor track; the elimina C lass ifie d .................................... 5 4 2-40 0 0 The proposal would affect students in would endanger their children. Several West tion o f varsity competition in golf, bowling Editorial........................................ 542 -4000 grades kindergarten through eight who live Keansburg parents told the board that they and gymnastics; and the cutting back o f cler S p o rts ...........................................2 54 -7000 within two miles o f their school and high are terrified at the prospect of their elemen tary school children crossing Route 36. ical and cafeteria personnel. school students who live within 2.5 miles of Olsen said the school board considered Press releases and advertising copy “Can't we cut some other program so that their school. The state does not mandate suing the state and Gov. Thomas Kean for may be brought to The Independent transportation service for those students, we can get our kids to school?’" asked West refusing to fully fund schools, but chose not office at 1 Register Plaza, said Vikki Olsen, school board president. Keansburg resident Denise Larkins. to because the N.J. Education Association Shrewsbury. The reduction in transportation ex Olsen said the board believes that retain plans to file a similar suit next week. INDEX __________ __ Dispenziere: Aid cuts jeopardize education ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 18-19 HAZLET — State aid cuts that have “Now the Township Committee can ei are the minimal-type program. Sure you can BUSINESS .................................... 3 3 forced the elimination of some school pro ther take further cuts, or leave the budget eliminate all of the minimal programs, but CLASSIFIED 36-47 grams have raised questions about the fu intact. Regardless o f which action they take, then, in the final analysis, what are you giv HOUSE OF THE WEEK 35 ture o f education in Hazlet and ether school the programs that we’ve taken out are still ing the kids beyond just the reading, writing IN THE SPOTLIGHT 1 2 districts. Dr. Joseph Dispenziere. superin gone. Now we come into the following year and arithmetic? That's not the basis for LETTERS. 4 tendent o f schools, said last week. and we could be facing the same problem all what schools are all about.” OBITUARIES 30 Dispenziere said a budget prepared by over again. Where are we going? This has Dispenziere said the state’s system for OFF B E A T 5 Gov. Thomas Kean that does not fully fi almost a domino effect.” determining funding for individual school OPINION 4 nance the school aid formula, and takes Dispenziere said the cuts slated for 1989 districts is confusing and designed so that POLICE BEAT 28-29 about $487,000 expected revenue from 90 will hurt the district, but will have no the state can spend only what it wants to. PROPERTY LINES 34-35 Hazlet, continues a recent trend o f neglect measurable, immediate effect on the quality “I would like to know what the formula SOCIAL NEWS 20 for education that is likely to persist after o f education. is, because I ’ve become convinced that SPORTS 24-26 Kean leaves office in January. "They do bring us back in terms o f some there is no main formula,” he said. “There The Hazlet Board WHAT'S HAPPENING 8-9 o f Education recently o f the programs cut at the middle school seems to be two or three formulas, any one cut its budget, despite the state Assembly’s because those programs are five or six years o f which the powers-that-be can use to gen Feb. decision to increase funding to school WILLIAM R. CANINO 6 old,” he said. • erate the figures for that particular year. Vice President districts. “1 think the quality of education has im That's why we get inconsistencies. DAVID THALER Dispenziere views the Assembly bill as a proved in general.