Category: Examiner Opinion

  • Wall hoping GOP voters will forget about the past

    Greg Bean Coda Well, here we are at Wall Watch, Week 71. Time sure flies when you’re having fun. I hope that constant – and even occasional – readers of this column will remember back to January 2006, when Holmdel Committeeman Terence Wall jumped the shark by turning on his running mate, Holmdel Mayor Serena…

  • Let’s take the time to get U.F.’s master plan done right

    The Upper Freehold master plan has been under revision for two and one half years and it still sits on the drawing board. The dialogue continues and public discussion seems no closer to consensus. Why then are the Planning Board and the mayor in such a hurry to wrap up this plan and get it…

  • Votes on Election Day should have been upheld

    Unfortunately, it appears that Mr. [Paul] Cacace missed my point in his reply to my recent letter. My main point is that in a democracy, the majority vote of the electorate is what dictates whether an issue passes or fails. The fact that our elected officials went against the vote of the majority was totally…

  • Yearlong book battle ends at Millstone middle school

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Millstone Township Middle School teacher Fran Kamen (l) congratulates seventh-graders Victoria Sharp, Danielle Rivas, Kalli Qutub, Delaney Bader, Vanessa Rivas and Kaitlyn Kohlhepp, who made up the first team ever from the Millstone school to compete in an interscholastic competition at the Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School on…

  • Obituaries

    Lawrence J. Bindler Mr. Bindler, 76, of Jackson, died May 6, 2007, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he had resided in Freehold for 51 years before moving to Jackson five years ago. He was the proprietor of Tops N Town Cleaners, Freehold, for many years. He was a U.S. Army…

  • Honorable, civic-minded Millstone citizen talks trash

    Before I go any further, please know my wife thinks I’m crazy. I took a stroll along Clarksburg Road this morning, near my home, and along less than 1/10 mile of tarmac, I collected 37 pounds – that’s right, 37 pounds of garbage. How do I know this? I weighed it. In my wife’s view,…

  • On Campus

    Ashley S. Shaffer of the Perrineville section of Millstone Township has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. A member of the class of 2008, she is majoring in communications/journalism. Aishling A. Stevens of Allentown has earned a bachelor of science degree in recreation management from East…

  • Save U.F.’s farmlands and natural assets

    Development is just another road to another dead-end exit off the New Jersey Turnpike. A new report was released by economists commissioned by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, which places dollar values on the state’s natural resources. According to an article that appeared in the New York Times the Pine Barrens has an…

  • We want what is best for our children, but at what price?

    I have read with interest the letters to the editor in regard to the [Millstone Township] school budget. I doubt anyone is against education for the children. Naturally, we always want what is best for our children, but at what price? When the price of gas rises, we drive less. When the cost of home…