Category: Examiner Opinion
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Manalapan water treatment business to move into U.F.
Board considers operation a good use for Route 537 site BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – The Planning Board unanimously granted a site plan waiver for a small business on a Route 537 property at its April 12 meeting. Michael Discepolo has a water treatment and filtering business on…
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April is Martin Luther King National Healthcare Month
More than 45 million Americans don’t have health insurance, and the number is growing. The Democratic candidates for next year’s presidential election discussed their health-care plans at a recent forum moderated by the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Service Employees International Union (SEUI). But we don’t have to wait for a new…
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Millstone PTO offers $2,000 scholarship
MILLSTONE – Learning from the experience of overcoming a challenge could earn a Millstone student money toward furthering his or her education. The Millstone Township PTO will once again sponsor a scholarship program in 2007. The PTO is providing $2,000 while also seeking matching funds from individuals and local businesses. The final award totals and…
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Shootings reflect need for better gun control
Words act as poor tissues to wipe away the tears of the so many affected by the tragic murders at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University on April 16, 2007. The event represents the single deadliest shooting in the history of the United States of America. The heinous butchery took the lives of 33…
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Obituaries
Alfred J. Chelli Mr. Chelli, 81, of Howell, died April 6, 2007, at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. Born in Exeter, Pa., he had lived in East Brunswick for 30 years before moving to the Surrey Downs section of Howell in 1986. Mr. Chelli was an inspector for General Motors, Linden, for 32 years,…
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Thorough research, not ‘phobia,’ a factor in one’s particular view
I am writing in response to Heidi Hesselein’s March 22 rebuttal letter that addresses the words “ignorant” and “homophobic” used in Steven Weitz’s March 9 letter. I do not subscribe to the philosophy that nonsupport of a view/lifestyle singles out an individual as “phobic” or ignorant to that topic. Quite the contrary, I have found…
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We’d all feel better if the punishment fit the crime
Greg Bean Coda There was a while in the last decade when, in addition to my newspaper work, I wrote mystery novels. Four of them were published by St. Martin’s Press, and are currently out of print. I gave up fiction writing when I finally had to admit that it’s just too hard and time…
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Schools get more resources thanks to new foundation
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – The Upper Freehold Regional Education Foundation picks up where the school budget leaves off. A group of local residents started the foundation last year to help financially supplement the educational programs in the Upper Freehold Regional School District (UFRSD). James Derasmo, the president of…
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Leonards to put a second residence up
Family homes to share a well BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – A township man received approval for a minor subdivision of family property at the April 12 Planning Board meeting. Adam Leonard wants to subdivide a 15-acre lot located at 344 Route 526. Leonard has lived on the…
