River deserves highest level of protection
      The League of Women Voters of Ocean County would like to inform Ocean County citizens that Gov. Jon Corzine and Commissioner Lisa Jackson of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection have been petitioned to designate the Toms River as a Category 1 (C-1) waterway.
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Jackson school board must deliver tax relief
      The Jackson Board of Edu-cation keeps trying to fool the taxpayers, year after year, into coughing up more money for "education." They keep forecasting a fictitious (phony) number of new students that are expected to enter the school system each new year.
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Those who donate an organ should have chance to receive one
      Christopher Ennis ("Friends Will Rally for Baby's Family," Tri-Town News, Feb. 8) was very lucky to get a heart transplant. Over half of the 94,000 Americans on the national waiting list will die before they get a transplant. Most of these deaths are needless. Americans bury or cremate about 20,000 transplantable organs every year. Over 6,000 of their neighbors die every year as a result.
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Former Howell official is glad that his name has been cleared
      Six weeks ago the Asbury Park Press, but not this newspaper, printed an article about a domestic violence complaint and a request for permanent restraints that my former girlfriend filed against me, a matter that ought to have remained private.
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