Hunting bills spark anger in area residents
      We are angry and extremely opposed to bill S802/A1669, which will allow hunting on Sunday with bow and arrow, five months out of the year (mid-September to late February) in wildlife management areas. Presently, bow hunters are allowed six days out of the week to hunt. Now they want seven days a week to hunt with no regard to the rest of us.
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Reader says community newspapers provide a very important service
      I feel very confident that the News Transcript that I read and all of the other weekly newspapers that Greater Media Newspapers puts out will continue to flourish, even in these apparently dire times where large newspapers are going into bankruptcy.
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Development fee providing money for affordable homes
      We agree with state Sen. Jennifer Beck's recent comments that New Jersey needs more housing people can afford. However, Sen. Beck (R-Monmouth and Mercer) does not propose to do anything new or different that will help build these homes or create jobs. Instead, she proposes that New Jersey return to failed and unfair policies of the past.
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Resident asks for help on issue of sewer line charges
      I do commiserate with the letters to the editor that were published previously (about the Western Monmouth Utilities Authority)
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Nuclear power a safe, dependable energy source
      I take issue with your cartoonist's slant on nuclear energy in New Jersey (News Transcript, April 8). We have an administration that is openly allied with the liberal green parties that refuse to consider building new reactors.
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