Category: Examiner Opinion

  • You are what you drive

    AMY ROSEN Around Town Anyone who has ever had a minivan knows that it does not exactly rank as the coolest of vehicles. I mean you’re not going to get “oohs” and “aahs” and people staring at your car as you drive down the road. People aren’t going to pull up next to you and…

  • Increased taxes reduce state’s revenues

    Atlantic City casino income is down 34 percent. Is it really competition or is New Jersey’s high cost of living to blame? Reference an Associated Press news story that the Casino Control Commission reported casino revenues fell 34 percent due to slot parlor competition in New York and Pennsylvania. Partially true. The actual decline is…

  • Millstone school district’s busing issue half solved

    St. Rose of Lima and Notre Dame kids will get rides to school BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE – Township students attending Notre Dame High School in the Lawrenceville section of Lawrence can breathe a sigh of relief: they will have busing on the first day of school. Millstone Superintendent of Schools Mary Anne…

  • Remember voting records at election time

    As to the statement Mayor Nancy Grbelja made in the article “Tax bills spark need for damage control,” I guess so, and the side of her face that the mayor is speaking out of this week is the one that says that the Township Committee does not control the 76 percent of the tax rate…

  • Putting a new face on the Roosevelt PTA

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Some of the newer faces in Roosevelt’s PTA include Vindhia Gordon (l-r), Meredith Murray, John Yang, Silvia Raines and Kacie Mixon. ROOSEVELT – Children whose parents and guardians actively participate in school functions usually have a better educational experience and receive better grades than other students. This is the Roosevelt…

  • Motorcycles displayed at annual show

    On Aug. 15, the Upper Freehold/Allentown Alliance to Prevent Alcoholism and Drug Abuse held its annual motorcycle show at Byron Johnson Recreation Area. The event was well attended with more than 90 motorcycles on display. This was our largest motorcycle show to date. Whether it was stopping by to have a snack at the concession…

  • Clifton showed leadership on pay-to-play reform

    Iattended the Aug. 9 Monmouth County Board of Freeholders meeting where the freeholders passed the strongest pay-to-play and wheeling ban in New Jersey. I would like to applaud the efforts of Freeholder Rob Clifton who took heat from the press for “killing reform” a few weeks before. He was being criticized, in fact, even as…

  • Drop the wine cooler, Grandma, or go to jail

    GREG BEAN Coda In the end, it looks like stupidity won over common sense at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel. Since July, almost 500 of the dumbest people on the East Coast have managed to get themselves arrested for underage drinking and various other liquor-related offenses at the venue, and dozens have been…

  • Nitrate study is outstanding tool for land use planning

    For the past six years, the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC) has administered a grants program to help towns do land use planning that protects the environment. A year ago, Upper Freehold received a matching grant from ANJEC to hire a consultant planner to prepare a nitrate dilution study as part of the…