Category: Examiner Opinion

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    MATT DENTON Easter cupcakes at the Millstone Township Easter egg hunt after-party at Wagner Farm on March 28.

  • Promise of medical advances can be lost with climate change

    YOUR TURN MICHELE S. BYERS GUEST COLUMN Addressing a crowd of more than 350 people gathered in Trenton, Nobel laureate Dr. Eric Chivian asked a question: How many people have had Lyme disease or know someone who had it? Almost every hand shot up. This should not surprise most folks who live in New Jersey.…

  • Scholarship applications available

    MILLSTONE — The Millstone Township PTSA and PTO will once again sponsor a scholarship program. The PTSA and PTO will each provide a $1,000 scholarship, according to a press release. The scholarship award will go to deserving high school senior(s) who reside in Millstone Township and have graduated from the Millstone Township Middle School. The…

  • ON CAMPUS

    Robin Ines Linzmayer of Allentown has been named to the dean’s list for the 2014 fall semester at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Evan Burek of Allentown has been named to the dean’s list for the 2014 fall semester at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.

  • Suddenly, guilt trips are kind of fun

    ARE WE THERE YET Lori Clinch I like to think of myself as a good person. I go to church, volunteer and have been known to hold the door open for others. I offer up greetings and salutations to folks I don’t know, yield when I clearly have the right of way, and slow down…

  • Conservation group awards scholarships

    The Freehold Soil Conservation District will award three $2,000 scholarships in the summer of 2015 to students majoring in a conservation-related field. The Neal Munch, Mac Clark and Bill Schauer scholarships are awarded annually to honor their years of dedicated and distinguished service to conservation and to the Freehold Soil Conservation District, according to a…

  • Teen Arts Festival inspires artistic spontaneity

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer Students from Matawan Regional High School, top left, and Long Branch High School, above, perform at the 2015 Teen Arts Festival. At left, students explore visual arts by designing mural sculptures with spray paint and paint markers. Art isn’t always meant to be permanent; sometimes the most lasting works are…

  • Some Millstone students decline to take new standardized exam

    By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent MILLSTONE — About 40 pupils in the Millstone Township K-8 School District refused to take the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exam in the recent first round of testing, according to Superintendent of Schools Scott Feder. PARCC is a mandated test for assessing Common Core…

  • Author’s visit a hit at Millstone school

    By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent MILLSTONE — Any child who attends the Millstone Township Elementary School is likely to know all about Michael Dooling, the author and illustrator of children’s books of a historic nature. Dooling visited the school on Feb. 27, and during two assemblies, he taught pupils about reading, writing and drawing. The children…