Category: Examiner Opinion

  • 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…

  • Students get to meet the New York Giants

    MILLSTONE – A township businessman has helped get New York Giants players to mentor 80 inner-city boys. Students from Link Community School in Newark will get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work one-on-one with members of the New York Giants at the 2007 Youth Football Experience on April 10 thanks in part to Millstone resident Peter…

  • Board of Ed. reviews referendum concerns

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education members have clarified some issues regarding the new middle school project. On April 17, voters will decide whether to make a 118-acre tract between Route 524 and Breza Road a new school campus that would include the new…

  • Fundraiser donations add up to large check for CentraState

    On behalf of the Millstone Township Hospital Auxiliary, I want to take this opportunity to thank the community for their continued support of our organization throughout our 41 years of existence. Through your generosity during the year of 2006, we were able to present a check to CentraState Medical Center in the amount of $12,374.29.…

  • Web site presents information on school referendum

    Reach an Educated Decision is open to all community members of Allentown and Upper Freehold Township and was established to provide relevant, factual information to residents regarding the April 17 middle school referendum and school budget vote. Our Web site, www.ReachAnEducated Decision.net will make every effort to present the available information in an accessible, well-organized…

  • Master plan issues concern U.F. residents

    My wife and I moved into Upper Freehold Township, just outside Allentown, in 2005. Since then we have become very concerned about the proposed master plan issues facing the township. While there is a lot of discussion, posturing and positioning by various parties about revising specific sections of the plan, it is time for all…

  • Greg Bean

    Coda A powerful story that may change your life Here’s a secret about people in the news business. While readers sometimes assume we’re callous and opportunistic, we’re often deeply affected by the news we report. I remember the first murder I covered. After I’d gotten the necessary facts for a story – the who, what,…