Category: Examiner Opinion

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The wall that unifies

    Grant funds climbing tool at Millstone school BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer MILLSTONE – Climbing will become part of the curriculum at the township’s elementary school, thanks to community support. The Millstone Township Foundation for Educational Excellence (MTFEE) awarded township schools more than $18,000 this fall to improve student learning programs. Some of the money…

  • Bill to provide remedy for party boss control

    County political parties in New Jersey too often operate in an undemocratic manner with party chairs wielding near-dictatorial power over the selection of candidates, the spending of campaign cash and the filling of legislative vacancies. Unfortunately, the threat of losing a government job or contract if a party member defies the county political boss is…

  • Education should not be funded by ZIP code

    Gov. Jon Corzine has a plan to revamp education funding. It appears to be just more smoke and mirrors. The sales pitch is “the current model leaves too many children out of luck simply because they live in the wrong ZIP code.” Pithy, but meaningless as far as the overburdened property taxpayer is concerned. Two…

  • Charles Winter

    Mr. Winter, 97, of Monroe, died Nov. 27, 2007. A self-employed certified public accountant for more than 60 years, he founded the firm that ultimately became Winter and Co., CPAs, New York City, and later, Woodbridge. He was predeceased by his first wife, Sadie Winter, in 1991, and by his second wife, the former Annette…

  • Specifics of new school funding formula unfurled

    Local districts would receive increases between 2 and 20 percent BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer The state aid figures from Gov. Jon Corzine’s proposed new school funding plan would give area school districts a significant cash increase from Trenton if the new formula passes the Legislature. The Upper Freehold Regional School District would receive 20…