Category: Examiner Opinion
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School district plans for $475K in interest savings
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – The Upper Freehold Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution at its Sept. 6 meeting to refund portions of its 2002 and 2005 bonds and discussed possible uses of the interest income. In December 2002, the board issued $13.7 million in tax-exempt school bonds,…
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Allentown resident says a new school referendum is needed
I understand all the concern for the overcrowded situation at the current elementary/middle school in Upper Freehold. We desperately need a new middle school. That is why the former school board leadership originally rushed the referendum through the electoral process. Unfortunately, it is obvious that mistakes were made in their haste to provide a much…
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U.F. Elementary/Middle School principal resigns
Peluso cites new school delay, overcrowding as reasons for leaving BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – On the day before school started, Upper Freehold Elementary/ Middle School Principal Miriam Peluso submitted her resignation. In an interview, Peluso cited the ongoing delay of the proposed middle school as one of the…
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Needed: Partners for anti-tobacco program
Did you know that according to the Center for Disease Control 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 United States have…
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District sets goals for new school year
Passing a new budget, opening new school on 2006-07 schedule BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE – The Board of Education unanimously approved district goals for the 2006-07 school year at its Aug. 28 meeting. Among the goals the board set are passing a new budget, planning a smooth transition into…
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Lunch lady wants raise and benefits
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE – A cafeteria worker who has been a school district employee for 20 years will not get a raise this year. Phyllis Eaton, who has lived in Millstone Township for 30 years, also just learned she will now have to partially pay for health benefits.…
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For the Record
The caption of a photo that ran with the article “Kratofil takes perch as new Redbird leader” in the Aug. 31 Examiner misidentified the trumpet soloist as Matthew Dallas. The soloist is actually Brendan Benedict. We regret the error.
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Coda
In this debate, money talks, principle walks Greg Bean Wrap it in all the highfalutin language about principles you want, but when you get to the nub, for the East Brunswick Board of Education, it’s all about the money. I was saddened last week to learn that despite losing a lawsuit brought by East Brunswick…
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Stabilize taxes via commercial ventures other than warehouses
I read with interest a letter written by James Petrillo in another local weekly newspaper. In his letter, Petrillo incorrectly states that those opposed to the Rockefeller warehouse proposal in Upper Freehold are NIMBYs (“not in my backyard” people). Recently, Communities United (CU) sent a petition against the warehouses to over 2,000 households in Upper…
