Category: Examiner Opinion
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Patricia Anne McKearney Howard
Mrs. Howard, 72, of East Brunswick, died Dec. 17, 2007, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1999, she was employed as an office manager at Freedman Truck Center, North Brunswick. Surviving are her husband, James Howard; six children, Kathleen Loftus of Yardley, Pa., Susan Brennan of Chalfont, Pa., Michael…
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Max Spanover
Mr. Spanover, 90, of Manalapan, died Dec. 19, 2007, at home. Born in New York City, he had lived in the Bronx, N.Y., and Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving toManalapan 34 years ago. Mr. Spanover was an accountant with the Veterans Administration, Brooklyn, for a number of years, retiring many years ago. He later became a…
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Robert G. Evans
Mr. Evans, 86, of Silvermead, Freehold Township, died Dec. 22, 2007, at The Manor Care Center, Freehold Township. Born in New York City and raised in Massachusetts, he had lived in Freehold Borough and Howell before moving to Silvermead in 1996.Mr. Evans was a graduate of Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine. He was a supervisor…
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Unforeseen costs could force school program cuts
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE – Unbudgeted special education tuition, mandated by state law, may have an effect on other activities in the school district. The Millstone Township School District has been under a budget freeze since it discovered that its actual amount of surplus is below what it anticipated it would have this…
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Alcohol is not safe for pregnant women
Once again we have arrived – safely, I hope – at this wondrous season of hope and renewal, this season so filled with preparing: Preparing our homes and our offices and our schedules; Preparing to visit, to attend, to host; Preparing to share and reminisce, to laugh and to sing … As we wade through…
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Doctor lists ways to keep the blues at bay this holiday season
The holiday season can bring great joy, a time when celebrating with family and friends is buoyed even further by a sense of renewal and the hope for better things in the year that approaches. Not everyone will share in the celebratory nature of the holiday season, however. For some, the presence of so much…
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Community gifts benefit Millstone Twp. schools
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE – ‘Tis the season for generosity. In the spirit of the season, the Millstone Township Board of Education, at its Dec. 17 meeting, accepted gifts from the community to benefit schoolchildren. The board voted unanimously to accept a donation for a giving tree, valued at $5,800, from the Napoliello…
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Grace Williams James
Mrs. James, 74, of Hampton, Va., formerly of Englishtown, died Dec. 9, 2007, at Riverside Regional Convalescent Center, Newport News, Va. She was born in Newport News and had resided in Englishtown from 1977 to 1985. Mrs. James was a 1956 graduate of Hampton Institute (now Hampton University), Hampton. She had worked as a transportation…
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Day of reckoning is on the horizon for budget
GREG BEAN Coda If you liked the lethiferousmachinations our lawmakers employed to get a state budget passed in 2006 and 2007, I have a feeling you’ll absolutely love what’s gonna happen in 2008. Those of you who have been paying attention know that in this state we’ve been looking at budget deficits of between $2.5…
