Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Point Beach Police Chief Thanks Community

Kevin O'Hara thanks staff, volunteers and "neighbors helping neighbors"

  An Open Letter of Thanks to All Who Helped During Hurricane Sandy As I sit here writing this letter it has been three weeks to the day that “Sandy” impacted all of our lives.  Thanksgiving is now only a few days away, when “Sandy” came we were waiting for Halloween’s arrival.  In one sense it seems like only yesterday that “Sandy” was beating on our door step and in another it seems like months ago. The past three and a half weeks or so seem like a blur, like a bad dream.  It is impossible to convey in words my true feelings of thanks to all those who pitched in during such a trying time, so many who stood tall in the face of adversity and did all they could to try to make all of our lives move forward as smoothly as possible.  I’ll try…

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Nominate Your Favorite Dentists

Tell us your local favorites so we can include them in our Readers’ Choice 2012 poll.

Where can you find the best dentist in Point Borough or Point Beach? Patch is relaunching its Readers’ Choice program and we’re asking you, your friends, family, neighbors, coworkers and anyone else in the knows to nominate the best local dentists. We’ll keep accepting nominations through July 9. After that, nominations will be closed and we’ll start the voting, so make sure to get in your favorites. All you need to do to nominate a business is to add it in the comments below. If you already see the business you want to nominate, make sure to add your comment about why it should be included. We may not be able to add all businesses to our poll and we want to make sure our readers' favorites make the cut. Thanks in advance for your …

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Intruder Incident Spurs New Middle School Policy

Students cannot enter Point Borough's Memorial Middle School for breakfast before 7 a.m.

A Brick man entering Memorial Middle School in Point Borough early Friday morning prompted school officials to change policies regarding students coming to school early for breakfast. John J. Kokinda Jr., 53, who lives at the Tip Top Cabins on Route 88, was charged with unlicensed entry of a structure, said Point Borough Police Captain Richard Larsen. He entered the school through an unlocked door on the side of the building near the softball field before staff and students were there, said Schools Superintendent Vincent Smith. He used the bathroom for about 70 minutes before a few students happened to discover him there, Larsen said. Students reported him to staff, a custodian escorted him out and police arrested him at Old Drift Road and…

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Man Arrested After Boro Middle Schoolers Find Him in School Bathroom

No one hurt; policies to be reviewed, says superintendent

A man was arrested after Memorial Middle School students found him in a school bathroom early Friday morning, said Point Borough Schools Superintendent Vincent Smith. The man did not approach or hurt any of the students, Smith said. The man had gotten into the school early in the morning, either before students had arrived or just as some arrived early for breakfast, Smith said. The man used the bathroom and was washing his hands when a few students saw him and told a teacher, Smith said. The school staff wears identification cards, the man did not have one and did not look familiar, so the students reported him, Smith said. Police were called, a school custodian escorted the man out, and police picked him up near the high school football …

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8:15 am on Monday, May 28, 2012

As a tax payer, I'm happy that it wasn't necessary to go through such expense. We can't live our lives in such constant states of fear and panic. My guess is that the school custodian assessed the situation, and didn't feel that there was a need to take such drastic measures. Besides, what is the point in locking down a school that the majority of students haven't arrived at yet? That's more like…   more ›