Category: Examiner Opinion

  • Feral cats need humane help

    Oct. 16, 2007, will mark the seventh annual National Feral Cat Day. To learn how to save the lives of feral cats and to humanely trap, spay, neuter, vaccinate, treat and help adopt out strays and kittens in the feral population, please contact: www.wildaboutcats.com or write 7920 Norfolk Ave., Suite 600, Bethesda, MD 20814. Feral…

  • Local farmer urges motorists to slow down on rural roads

    As every farmer knows, it is difficult to lose farm animals to predators even though hawks and coyotes must eat to survive. Yesterday, we were visited again by another type of predator – someone who purposely ran down two of our 4-month-old guinea fowl on a long straight stretch of Olde Noah Hunt Road. It…

  • Obituaries

    Howard C. Beresford Mr. Beresford, 66, of Millstone Township, died Sept. 26, 2007, at home. Born in Newark, he had lived in Belleville, Clifton, the Morganville section of Marlboro, Old Bridge and Middletown before moving to Millstone Township in 1996. He was the founder and operator of Clearwater Technology Inc., Newark. Prior to that, he…

  • Stroke victim calls for FDA regulation of tobacco products

    Who would have thought that a box of macaroni and cheese is more rigorously regulated than tobacco products such as a pack of cigarettes produced with poisons and addictive substances, including arsenic, formaldehyde, benzene and nicotine? Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, killing more than 400,000 Americans each year,…

  • March of Dimes supports children’s health insurance bill

    Imagine that every pregnant woman and infant in the U.S. has health insurance that allows them to get the health care they need. Unlikely? Actually, this year we have an excellent opportunity to make great progress in reaching this goal. As a parent and March of Dimes board chairman, I have seen infants and children…

  • Results of ‘basic civics’ test can be misleading

    GREG BEAN Coda The national papers and pundits were all atwitter last week over the results of a test given to 14,000 college students across the country that seemed to suggest that lots of them got stupider during their four years of expensive education instead of smarter. The test, the results of which were released…

  • Use government service as alternative to taxes

    Pay no property tax. When a government job is open, you work it until your property tax obligation is met. Since do-it-yourself government service requires no salary, no salary taxation, no health insurance, no pension, no sick days, no personal days, no paid holidays and no paid vacation, the cost of this government position is…

  • Middle school focuses on developing the whole child

    New program teaches respect, responsibility, integrity, communication BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – The middle school values good character as much as it does academic excellence. As the Upper Freehold Regional School District prepares for the September 2010 opening of a new middle school, middle school Principal Mark Guterl wants parents to know…

  • MTFEE thanks those dunked during Millstone Day

    The mission of the Millstone Township Foundation for Educational Excellence (MTFEE) is to promote and enhance educational excellence in our public schools by providing opportunities that might not be available without private funds. The trustees of the MTFEE would like to express our sincerest thanks to teachers Lisa Camposano and Kelsey Plunkett, coaches Ed Fradkin…