MELISSA GAFFNEY WILL BE REPORTING FOR COURIER

Melissa Gaffney

The Courier is welcoming a new correspondent to the line-up. Ms. Melissa Gaffney, Forked River, is going to be covering Union Beach, Keyport and the Hazlet school board for The Courier and The Courier Online. She will also be opening a blog in August, which will be dealing with news from the Bayshore.

Ms. Gaffney will be a Georgian Court University graduate in Dec. '08. She is a communications major at the university and the editor emeritus of The Georgian Court Report. Ms. Gaffney is a member of the Sigma Tau Delta English Society and she is very eager to begin governmental reporting.

To see Melissa's newspaper at GCU, you'll have to take the drive to Lakewood. But, you can see some of her work next week, when she interviews and YouTubes Hazlet school board candidate Will Kolibas. The YouTube will be up on Thursday, the Online story will be up on Friday, and the feature article will be in the following edition of the newspaper.

For all candidates out there, please remember it is your responsibility to call us for interviews because Courier reporters will not chase around candidates. To request interviews, call (732) 957-0070, ext. 6112, for our Associate Editor Chris Blaszczyk.

To contact Melissa by E-mail, she can be reached at: Ms.Melissa.Gaffney@Gmail.com.