Category: Examiner Opinion

  • Skatepark advocate hopes for future parks

    I was very dismayed to read the article in the July 27 issue of Examiner about banning skateboarding in Millstone. While communities all across the country rack their collective brains about how to deal with youth obesity, sedentary lifestyles, and the isolation that comes with living in the computer age, the kids of Millstone have…

  • Legacy of achievement cannot be destroyed

    I was shocked by the vandalism of the Millstone-Roosevelt Little League (MRLL) field house. Shock subsided into sadness over the destructive crime for the perpetrators. For something as innocent as Little League baseball to be violated so thoughtlessly is a cry for help. The MRLL always ensures that decisions made “put children first” and I…

  • Christian Academy looks to expand with rec facility

    Neighbors complain about late-night noise coming from school BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – The New Jersey Christian Academy wants to put a recreational facility on its Holmes Mill Road property. At the July 25 Planning Board meeting, the board decided that a walk-through of the site would have…

  • Millstone Twp. School District promotes Vetere

    MILLSTONE – The school district will now have to find a new elementary school principal. During its July 24 meeting, the Millstone Township Board of Education promoted elementary school Principal Laura Vetere to director of curriculum and instruction for the district. The board voted 7-0 to promote her. Board member Peter Kudrick abstained. Vetere will…

  • Millstone school board approves use of 11 trailers

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE – The Board of Education has renewed approvals for substandard instructional space for what it hopes is the last time. The school district plans to open its new middle school on Baird Road for the 2007-08 school year. At that time, the current middle school…

  • BOE still not sure how to power school

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer MILLSTONE – The school district still does not know how it will get power to its new middle school. The new middle school, which is currently under construction off Waters Lane, requires three-phase electric, according to Brian Boyle, the Millstone Township School District’s business administrator. “The…

  • Pfefferkorn surprised by Abilheira’s statements As you enter Millstone, welcome signs are posted indicating the amount of open space and farmland preserved: 3,424 acres. And if you attended township meetings before 2004, you frequently waited for those meetings to begin because executive sessions were packed with new open space proposals. Numerous discussions focused on maximizing…

  • On Campus

    Pamela Strack, daughter of Cathy and Gary Strack of Millstone Township, graduated magna cum laude from Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pa, with a bachelor of arts degree in business management and psychology. She was named to the dean’s list each of the four years, and was inducted into PSI CHI, which is the national honor society…

  • Scientist takes issue with editorial on U.F. school site

    I would like to respond to the June 1 Examiner editorial, “U.F. should err on side of caution for the kids.” I feel that the article was unfair to both the Upper Freehold Board of Health and the Upper Freehold Board of Education. As a concerned citizen, who happens to also be an environmental scientist,…