Category: Examiner Opinion

  • Coda

    South Brunswick pols can always make things worse Greg Bean This morning as I drove down Davidsons Mill Road in South Brunswick, past the new warehouse complex going up like a giant concrete carbuncle on the landscape, I slowed, faced the general direction of town hall and gave Mayor Frank Gambatese and the Town Council…

  • Resident doesn’t want a warehouse legacy

    In December 2005, members of the Upper Freehold Township Committee signed a “letter of agreement” between our township and the Rockefeller Group. This document fills out the fine details of who will build the 1.8 million square-foot warehouses on Breza Road, who posts bonds, signs off on the plans, plows the streets, services the water…

  • Bus may not stop for all students this fall

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – Forty-one local children who attend St. Gregory’s and Our Lady of Sorrows in Robbinsville may have difficulty finding transportation to those schools in September. The bus contractor, Delaware Valley Bus Line Inc., of Trenton, did not renew its contract with the Upper Freehold Regional…

  • Are We There Yet?

    Once again, I am not the mother of the year Lori Clinch With the new school year rapidly approaching, the sales are everywhere and I’ve noticed that practically every business in town is getting on the bus. Florists have back-to-school sales, lumber yards run return-to-education specials, and I hope that the airlines will soon join…

  • Obituaries

    Lottie Canada Mrs. Canada, 86, of Freehold, died Aug. 10 at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born in Fort Valley, Ga., she had lived in Englishtown before moving to Freehold more than 55 years ago. Prior to retiring, Mrs. Canada was a packer for the Apache Tomato Co., Colts Neck. She was predeceased by her…

  • Committeeman responds to Pfefferkorn’s letter

    I was disappointed to see John Pfefferkorn running another one of his famous slam-o-grams in the Examiner last week. You would think that after being thrown out of office by one of the biggest landslides in Millstone history in 2004, he would have learned that his nonsense can no longer fool the public. Well, it…

  • Mauro’s journey with new band infuses empathetic pride

    Jennifer Kohlhepp’s Aug. 3 article about Peter Mauro’s fusion band swept me away. Her story and interview with Mauro and his students was wonderful. She wrote of Mauro’s 20-year reign as director of bands at Allentown High School, about his impressive musical journeys with his students and their performances from Hershey Park, Pa., to London.…

  • Millstone Twp. School District reorganizes

    Superintendent invites public to community meetings on Oct. 6-7 BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer MILLSTONE – Students will come to find familiar faces behind different doors when they return to school this fall. The Millstone Township School District’s administrative team has undergone almost a complete reorganization this summer. As of now,…