Category: Examiner Opinion

  • Life is good when you are the youngest child

    Lori Clinch Are We There Yet? Although I love my youngest sister dearly, growing up with her was as irritating as finding a sibling sitting on your bed, wearing your favorite shirt and eating your candy stash. Misti was the bane of my existence. She was into my stuff, crowding my space and inserting “I’m…

  • Pastor: To ban all skaters wouldn’t be fair

    In the June 29 edition of the Examiner it was reported that Millstone is considering a ban on skaters of all types from public land because of the actions of a few people who have caused some damage. Now the Township Committee wants to adopt a new law to ban all types of skaters. Why…

  • Commissioner weighs in on school site contamination

    In a recent issue of “The Jersey Sierran,” Jeff Tittel of the Sierra Club wrote concerning the issue of school site contamination. Referring to cleanup and capping of contaminated soil at schools sites he stated, “In Gloucester City (Camden County) the local school board chose to locate a new middle school on what is both…

  • Special section was a tribute to special teens

    Congratulations to Peggy Primiano, Greater Media Newspapers special sections editor, for the wonderful section on young people in our community accomplishing great things in our local towns. Thank you to Valley National Bank for sponsoring the Future Leaders program. Bravo! It’s about time we read about the good things young people are doing and give…

  • Millstone committeeman responds to letter

    It was unfortunate that Mr. [Tom] Ridgway failed to disclose in his letter to the Examiner that he was Mr. [John] Pfefferkorn’s campaign manager and was the lead man for [William] Nurko’s debate team in 2005. It seems the Democrat and Pfefferkorn campaigns are starting their mud slinging and spin machine even earlier this year…

  • Foundation will aid brain cancer victims

    My late husband, Kenny Martin, was a wonderful generous and caring man, who would always be there to lend a hand to anyone who needed help. For 22 months, he bravely battled an extremely aggressive malignant brain tumor known as a glioblastoma. During this period, the tumor had to be surgically removed four times. In…

  • General ed. teachers face special ed. realities

    Districts, colleges adjust to a changing educational landscape BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer “It’s a matter of how do you provide good service for people and kids and yet still keep it within the budgetary realm of a public school?” – Bob Lanzieri A few years ago, at the University of…

  • Deputy mayor’s remarks called ‘hysterical rant’

    William Miscoski, the Upper Freehold deputy mayor, is a disgrace. How else would you describe someone who has the audacity and sheer stupidity to say that the Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education “does not care about kids” when it comes to protecting them from farm-related pesticides at the site of the new middle school?…

  • Deputy mayor apologizes for his remarks

    I would like to take this opportunity to comment on my recent quotes in the local newspapers. Sometimes we all need to do a little soul-searching and be humbled and admit when we have been wrong. Because of the passion I have for kids and recreation, I feel I have gone over the top a…