Category: Examiner Opinion

  • Board taps newcomer, not Cheff to fill seat

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – They chose new blood over experience. The Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education voted 6-3 on Sept. 20 for newcomer Doug Anthony over former board member Robert Cheff to fill a vacant Allentown board seat. The regional school district is made up of Allentown,…

  • Resident: Millstone needs all honest help it can get

    I usually do not get involved in the gritty details of politics and the election in our town but after reading the editorial in the Sept. 14 Examiner I felt the need to respond. The editorial regarding the “refusal” to debate by John Pfefferkorn and Bill Nurko was a blatant attack on these two men…

  • Public scrutiny, participation urged regarding Breza Road

    The controversy over the Breza Road warehouse project has called attention to the Matrix warehouse project along Old York Road. It raises comparisons to the opposition fought several years ago by residents in Lynwood Estates. I would like to clarify some information relating to those aspects of the Old York Road warehouse project. Foremost and…

  • It’s not moderator’s fault candidates don’t have answers

    I have seen and been involved in a lot of debates over candidate debates during the past several years here in Millstone, but I have never seen candidates refuse to debate based on the excuse that the League of Woman Voters (LOWV) is a biased group. Pretty much everyone, including Republicans, Democrats, Independents and Libertarians,…

  • Experiment suggested for Roosevelt resident

    Dear Ms. [Danielle] Petrics, I read your letter to the editor [in the Sept. 21 edition of the Examiner] with dismay. It is contemptible of you to compare Roosevelt with Nazi Germany. You, like other supporters of the yeshiva, continue to define the conflict between the Congregation Anshei Roosevelt/Yeshiva Me’on Hatorah and the Roosevelt community…

  • New initiatives developed to spark student interest

    Writing clinic, new math Web site among fresh teaching tools at AHS BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – Curriculum changes at Allentown High School have kicked off the new school year to a fantastic start, according to the school’s principal. Principal Dr. Christopher Nagy, who earned his doctorate last February,…

  • Once pro, Nathanson no longer supports warehouses

    I was recently asked by a reporter why I now oppose the warehouse development on Breza Road when, in 2004, I was quoted in the newspapers as favoring it. The following is basically how I replied: Life is a learning process. I naively used to think that warehouses were like giant boxes to which things…

  • Obituaries

    Jennifer Testa Clayton Mrs. Clayton, 38, of Uniontown, Md., formerly of Millstone, died Aug. 17 as a result of injuries she received in a vehicular bicycle accident. Born in Livingston, she grew up in Millstone and was a 1986 graduate of Allentown High School. She earned a bachelor of science degree in biology from Western…

  • It’s all about the money

    Former Gov. James E. McGreevey may have thought he snookered some people back in August 2004. But McGreevey’s “I am a gay American” speech was a shameful sleight-of-hand maneuver designed to try and deflect attention from the real problems. The long-hidden sexual orientation of the former governor was never, ever the issue. The real, unforgivable…