Category: Examiner Opinion

  • Affordable housing picture is cloudy after COAH vote

    YOUR TURN ASSEMBLYMAN SEAN KEAN GUEST COLUMN The failure of New Jersey’s Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) to reach an agreement on new thirdround regulations for the state Supreme Court-mandated construction of housing for low-income residents has created confusion for municipalities now facing dramatic increases in litigation that would force towns to accept affordable housing…

  • Legislator supports ‘Breakfast After the Bell’

    Students who eat a nutritious, well-balanced breakfast tend to be healthier, have longer attention spans and are more likely to succeed in school. For this reason, I have sponsored legislation that was recently signed into law that would encourage schools to move their breakfast programs to after the first bell of the day in order…

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    JESSICA D’AMICO/STAFF View of the Raritan River from the Driscoll Bridge, Middlesex County.

  • ON CAMPUS

    Jeffrey Bloom Leeds of Millstone Township was named to the president’s list at Berkeley College, Woodbridge location.

  • Humanely evict spiders from a home

    This is the time of year when many arachnids are seen weaving intricate webs and wooing mates. If you spot a spider in your house or yard, please leave her in peace — she is likely just roaming about due to the time of year and will soon retreat back into her safe hiding spot.…

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    MATT DENTON The sun beams down and lights up the autumn leaves in Allentown.

  • Four residents win seats on Millstone school board

    By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent MILLSTONE — The Monmouth County Board of Elections has confirmed the winners in the race for four seats on the Millstone Township K-8 School District Board of Education. The winners of three three-year terms are John Saxton, 1,220 votes; Melissa Riviello, 1,256 votes; and Cynthia Bailey, 1,231 votes. Saxton and Riviello…

  • ON CAMPUS

    Austin James Ostrander, son of Jerry and Barbara Ostrander of Millstone Township, was named to the dean’s list for the 2014 spring semester at Coastal Carolina University, Conway, S.C., where he is a freshman majoring in Intelligence and National Security Studies. Austin is a 2013 graduate of Red Bank Regional High School, Little Silver.

  • Don’t look now, but winter has returned

    ARE WE THERE YET Lori Clinch I have long been dreading a visit from an unwanted guest. I put it out of my mind for as long as I possibly could, pretended the day would never come and did my best to think about other things. I avoided the subject at the dinner table and…