Category: Examiner Opinion

  • We recognize our township stands at a crossroad

    We are writing today to ask you to support Lori Horsnall Mount and John Mele in the Republican primary election on Tuesday, June 9. When all is said and done, we collectively have more years of community involvement than any of us would probably like to admit. Whether it be on the Planning Board, Zoning…

  • Obituaries

    Belle Karp Belle Karp, 93, of Englishtown, died April 28, 2007, at Applewood Estates, Freehold. Born in Russia, she had settled in the United States in 1914, residing in Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Englishtown 25 years ago. She was a bookkeeper in the garment industry. Mrs. Karp was predeceased by her husband, Murray Karp,…

  • For the Record

    In an article in the April 12 edition of the Examiner titled “Debate Emerges Over Who Should Pay for Project Flaws,” Upper Freehold Regional School District member William Borkowski said Aqua New Jersey runs the sewer plant at the local Hovnanian housing developments Heritage Green and Four Seasons. He also said that the company told…

  • Public invited to attend feasibility study, June 25

    During the past year, the Crosswicks/Doctors Creek Regional Greenway Planning Group has been conducting the Doctors Creek to Assunpink Creek Trail Feasibility Study, with the assistance of Forbes Environmental and Land Use Planning. The purpose of the study is to determine the feasibility of a Doctors/Assunpink Creek Trail. The study is funded by a grant…

  • Act locally, or warm globally

    Anytime a problem has the word “global” in it, it’s easy to be frightened off. A global problem is too big for us to impact here at the local level, right? Some New Jersey leaders recognize that global warming is the product of countless local decisions. So it’s completely appropriate – and necessary – for…

  • Coda

    Here’s another law that motorists will just ignore Greg Bean Here’s another law that motorists will just ignoreGreg Bean Nine. That’s the number of people I saw talking on their cell phones while driving on my way to work this morning. Of the nine, one was a lady talking on the cell phone while blithely…

  • Voter disappointed with Millstone officials

    I was totally shocked and disappointed to read that our elected Millstone officials decided to overturn the recent school proposals against the voice of the people who elected them. Who do they think they are? Our elected officials are so arrogant that they threw out the majority view of the voters and sided with their…

  • RED will donate surplus to local schools

    The following is a response to a public request made by Walter F. Helfrecht in the May 3 Examiner regarding information posted on www.ReachAnEducatedDecision.net. With regard to displaying on the Web site that donations were “tax deductible,” Reach an Educated Decision (RED) acknowledged and corrected this error. There was no intent to “mislead” the public.…

  • Without technology and education, what is our future?

    Unfortunately, due to personal obligations, I was unable to attend the May 2 Millstone Township Committee meeting at which time the committee considered the defeated Board of Education budget; however, I did get the opportunity to voice my opinion at the April 18 meeting. I commend the committee for understanding the needs of our children…