Category: Examiner Opinion

  • Cream Ridge residents’ sore feet paid off

    Iwould like to publicly thank two of your local residents for completing an extraordinary act of selflessness. These two young women joined in the 3- Day Walk for Breast Cancer that took place in Philadelphia last weekend. They are Lori Mount and Courtney Reighard, both residents of Cream Ridge. They are both employed at Allentown…

  • Sometimes in relationships things are just ‘meant to be’

    CLARE MARIE CELANO Girl Talk There’s a Yiddish expression I fell in love with the moment I heard it – beshert. It means “meant to be.” Like karma and serendipity, this phenomenon is nothing less than a message from God. Sometimes beshert comes to us as intimate relationships, friends, lovers, angels even, on our path…

  • Community helped promote Redbird Robotics

    On behalf of the Allentown Redbird Robotics team, I would like to thank the Allentown Public Library and the Allentown post office for graciously allowing us to set up in their driveway during this past weekend’s Harvest Festival. Thanks to this central location, our team members were busy each day demonstrating our robots and setting…

  • Obituaries

    Philip Louis De Francisco Mr. De Francisco, 85, of Freehold, died Oct. 11, 2007, at Community Medical Center, Toms River. Born in Jersey City, he had resided in Rutherford and Old Bridge before moving to Freehold. Mr. De Francisco was a bus operator for NJ Transit and an aircraft dispatcher for World Airways prior to…

  • October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month

    ‘Last night was the first time I slept peacefully in years.” At first glance you might think that is a testimonial for a new mattress or some new sleeping aid. In fact those are the words of a domestic violence victim who fled her violent home with her two children in tow, and stayed in…

  • Resident says Millstone needs a bipartisan government

    Everyone I hear talking in town has just three things on their mind: taxes, taxes and taxes. If you have lived here since 2003 when Bill Nurko was mayor, you would notice your municipal taxes alone have almost tripled and municipal spending and debt projections have gone through the roof. This is especially so in…

  • An evaluation of arts education in area schools

    RPS scores in top 10 percent for arts offerings BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Public school students in Roosevelt experience better art education in their elementary school years than they do at the middle and high school levels, and Upper Freehold Regional students are experiencing almost the exact opposite. A design that a Roosevelt Public…

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    ERIC SUCAR staff The senior class cheers after winning the poster contest during halftime at the homecoming football game at Allentown High School Oct. 6.

  • New Jersey: state of the arts

    Arts ed. in N.J. is ‘light years ahead’ of other states, yet still lacking BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Most New Jersey students have access to some of the greatest arts programs in the nation while others in the state still attend schools without any. “Within Our Power: The Progress, Plight and Promise of Arts…