Category: Examiner Opinion

  • Casilda Gonzalez

    Mrs. Gonzalez, 93, of Freehold, died Sept. 7, 2007, at home. Born in Forcadela, Spain, she moved to the United States in 1934. She and her husband operated the Country Inn, Freehold Township, from 1948-49, as well as the Freehold Deli on East Main Street. They were both employed at the Horsemen’s Kitchen at Freehold…

  • Once-free project will have to go out to bid

    District will have to pay for grading, soil removal at new middle school BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE – The Board of Education is no longer pursuing a local developer to grade athletic fields and remove soil for free at the site of the new middle school. The Pennsylvania-based Orleans Development Corp. had once…

  • Animal cruelty found in Monmouth County

    Michael Vick, star quarterback of the NFLAtlanta Falcons, has brought international attention to a heinous and cruel “sport” which secretly takes place on a daily basis right here in Monmouth County and across America. As the chief humane law enforcement agency in the county, the Monmouth County SPCA investigates hundreds of animal abuse cases each…

  • Fat no more: A way for N.J. to trim its waist

    New Jersey is getting fatter. Obesity rates in our state rose yet again in a new report released Aug. 27 by the Trust for America’s Health (www.healthyamericans.org). It appears that Garden Staters are choosing the Philadelphia cheese steak over the Jersey tomato more often than not. And when it comes to physical activity, we are…

  • Millstone Twp. Middle School will open on time

    Twp. grants building a temporary certificate of occupancy BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE – “We’re done.” That’s a brief version of the report school construction manager Bill Skillman, of Hill International in Marlton, gave the Millstone Township Board of Education at its Aug. 27 meeting regarding the new middle school on Baird Road. In…

  • Legislative futility is costing us all

    It is now the time of year when mailboxes start getting stuffed with slick, glossy campaign fliers trumpeting the achievements of candidates for office. “As a member of your Legislature, I fought to end corruption,” you might read, or “I worked to get guns off the streets.” In political spin, there’s always some kernel of…

  • More Millstone students scoring at advanced levels

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE – If Laura Vetere was grading the school district on its test scores, she would give it a “very good.” Vetere, the director of curriculum and instruction in the Millstone Township School District, gave a presentation about township students’ scores on the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge…

  • Cancer survivor ready to help others, thanks to Wyldlife

    Many thank yous to Gina, Ed, Donna, John and all our wonderful Wyldlife Club members. I was so deeply touched by your generous hearts, all your warm wishes and heartfelt prayers. Tears of joy and appreciation swelled my eyes when your special delivery was made to my home. A fundraiser event that was supposed to…

  • When it comes to new law, less is almost always more

    GREG BEAN Coda In “Civil Disobedience,” his great work on the duty of all men to rebel against unjust governments, American philosopher and noted recluse Henry David Thoreau said, “I heartily accept the motto – That government is best which governs least.” It was his notion that we are not served well by lawmakers who…