Category: Examiner Opinion

  • Greg Bean

    Coda Sometimes, it’s the small things that save a marriage Last weekend, my stepfather got married to a wonderful woman, and I couldn’t be happier. This is a guy who came into the lives of me and my brothers after my father died, and not only loved our mother, but nursed her through her last…

  • Many will take from the public trough at some point

    Voting yes on the referendum to build a middle school at Breza Road/Route 524 for an additional $13.2 million will certainly raise our taxes. However, if we vote it down, we must still go out to referendum for the current shortfall of $10.7 million on the Ellisdale site. State law does not allow the school…

  • Curious about letter writer’s contentment

    In response to Mr. Ron Johnson’s letter, I’m sad that you’re leaving town. I’m sure that people from your time have contributed many things that make Millstone the town I decided to raise my family in. I am just curious why you would be content with a township of dishonest politicians? I must go now,…

  • Boro may zone for schools, dorms, houses of worship

    Proposed ordinance would affect 109 acres of 1,240-acre town BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Roosevelt may create an area in town to accommodate the construction of more schools and houses of worship. At its March 26 meeting, the Borough Council unanimously voted to introduce a zoning ordinance that would affect the…

  • Community needs to roll up sleeves, overcome obstacles

    Upper Freehold and Allentown voters have a basic decision to make about the future of our school system and our community on Tuesday, April 17. We can be a community where people roll up our sleeves and overcome a series of unusually difficult obstacles so that we can provide our students with schools where they…

  • Give public more access, broadcast board meetings

    A tie vote will temporarily keep residents who can’t make it to Millstone Township Board of Education meetings in the dark about what goes on there. The board began discussing taping and broadcasting its meetings on the public access channel last summer. At that time, the township let the board know it would soon have…

  • UFRSD board member not sure about next step

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education member Howard Krieger has not yet decided whether he will step down from the board. During the board’s March 21 meeting, which Krieger did not attend, the board took a vote that resulted in a nonbinding resolution asking…

  • Extra land adds up to more dollars, risks

    How can the school board in good conscience ask the taxpayer to spend $2.5 million above and beyond the existing alternative? What do we get for these extra millions you ask? Extra land. We get 50 acres beyond what is currently needed to build the middle school, of which less than 27 acres can actually…

  • Obituaries

    Burt Carman Mr. Carman, 83, of Manalapan, died March 11, 2007, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in Boston, he had lived in New York City and Rochester, N.Y., before moving to Manalapan. He was a machinist at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York for 20 years. Prior to retiring, he…