Category: Examiner Opinion

  • Singing the holidays into full swing

    Student musical groups bring Christmas cheer to local nursing home BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Baby, it was cold outside on Dec. 6, but local students made it warm in the hearts of residents at a local assisted-living facility. The Redbird Singers and the Brass Ensemble from the Upper Freehold Regional…

  • Assemblyman needs lesson in economics

    Gov. Jon Corzine and the Democrats in Trenton reduced the support for Rutgers University by $80 million in the current budget. This reduction forced the university administration to make budget reductions at all levels. The vast majority of the reductions were in academics. Athletics was included in the reductions, and there are plans to eliminate…

  • Resident hopes committeeman will follow through

    At a recent Township Committee meeting, as publicly acknowledged by Upper Freehold Township Committeeman Steve Alexander, Steve generously sat for several hours this past summer with several representatives of those who believe in our Country Code and opposed the now-withdrawn application to build approximately 2 million square feet of industrial warehouses in our community. We…

  • Victims not in the news, not on our minds

    Last week I and nine other AmeriCorps members of New Jersey Public Interest Research Group’s (NJPIRG) Community Water Watch took a service trip down to Mississippi. We went to help with the continued rebuilding effort in an area that, more than a year later, is still ravaged from Hurricane Katrina. I had seen the images…

  • Obituaries

    William Francis Cooper Jr. Mr. Cooper, 63, of the Port Monmouth section of Middletown, died Nov. 27, 2006, at home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he resided in Middletown the past 36 years. He was a salesman at Toyota of Eatontown, and Kay Honda, Eatontown, for several years. He was predeceased by his father, William F.…

  • Agency seeking members for anti-smoking coalition

    Did you know that according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, causing nearly 440,000 deaths each year and resulting in an annual cost of more than $75 billion in direct medical costs? More than 8.6 million people in the…

  • UFRSD hires middle school project manager

    Marlton’s Hill International receives $621,800 contract BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – The Millstone Township and Upper Freehold Regional school districts now have two things in common. Both school districts passed referendums for new middle schools in 2004. While Millstone’s project has forged ahead and is on target for a…

  • Farmland preservation protects more than land

    New Jersey recently celebrated a farmland preservation milestone with the announcement that 150,000 acres of farmland have been preserved statewide. This is an accomplishment made possible by a number of partners: voters who approved a stable source of preservation funding, legislators who created the Garden State Preservation Trust as the financing vehicle and appropriated needed…

  • Coda

    Boys and girls in uniform are children of our village Greg Bean I remember when Jimmy Mac was a goofy kid with a devilish twinkle in his eye. The best friend of my youngest son, he was as polite as could be. His company manners were impeccable, since his mom and dad had drilled them…