Category: Examiner Opinion
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Class of 2007 may be first to walk down a new aisle
Change of venue for graduation could save money BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – This year’s Allentown High School graduates may have a different venue for their commencement ceremony. At the Jan. 3 Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education workshop meeting, Allentown High School Principal Christopher Nagy said that a…
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What will Upper Freehold look like in the future?
When it comes to the future of our township, it should be obvious by now that just about everyone in Upper Freehold Township wants the same thing. We spoke at the February 2006 planning board meeting when more than 100 people showed up to protest town/village centers and high density development, and to support White…
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Night of optimistic venturing becomes forum for hurtful diatribes
Call me naive, but I never thought Township Committee meetings could get as ugly as last Thursday night. I attended the Upper Freehold Township 2007 reorganization meeting. This would be the third reorganization meeting I’ve attended since my husband was sworn in as a township committeeman back in 2003. The reorganization meeting is historically a…
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Resident calls for recall election in U.F.
I was absolutely disgusted while attending the Upper Freehold Township Committee reorganization meeting on Jan. 4. How on earth could Steve Alexander not be appointed mayor? I think the residents of Upper Freehold sent a clear message to our Township Committee by overwhelmingly supporting Alexander and Robert Faber over Sal Diecidue in November’s election. In…
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U.F. resident spellbound by irony of Fleischacker’s statements
On Jan. 4, I attended the Upper Freehold Township Committee’s reorganization meeting and the committee meeting that immediately followed. During the latter I sat spellbound as Mayor [Stephen] Fleischacker detailed, during his privilege, his position on several topics of vital importance to this town. He spoke at length concerning his interest in hearing and considering…
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Obituaries
Calvin J. Robbins Mr. Robbins, 80, of the Cream Ridge section of Upper Freehold, died Dec. 28, 2006, at CareOne at Hamilton. Born in Nelsonville to Joseph and Retta Robbins, he was a lifetime resident of the Cream Ridge area and a member of the Cookstown United Methodist Church. Surviving are his wife of 45…
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Around Town
Amy Rosen Communication goes to places never imagined My son recently found our family’s original car phone from the 1980s in the basement. It was a full-size portable phone in a bag with a rechargeable battery that could be plugged into the cigarette lighter – an amazing invention at the time, like something out of…
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Coda
A somber toast for the coming year (redux) Greg Bean This column first appeared Jan. 4, 2006. I think it’s even more appropriate today than it was then. Things haven’t gotten better in the last year. They’ve gotten worse, and our president is talking about sending even more young soldiers into harm’s way. I hope…
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Adele Young
Bloopers Hope you didn’t miss the Holly Belly Boutique We like to start the new year by looking back at the typographical and grammatical errors that almost made it, and some that actually did make it, into some of Greater Media Newspapers’ publications during the previous year. This ain’t the “Oprah” show: In a story…
