Category: Examiner Opinion
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Obituaries
Patricia E. Barkalow Mrs. Barkalow, 77, of the Cream Ridge section of Plumsted, died June 5 at home. Born in Freehold, she had resided there for most of her life before moving to Delaware. She had lived in Cream Ridge since 1997, and was a communicant of the Church of the Assumption, New Egypt section…
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SciCore Academy explodes into new space
Private school now fully accredited by Middle States BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Sometime in the future SciCore students may look back upon this time as their alma mater’s big bang. Founded in 2002, the SciCore Academy for Science and the Humanities is a private middle and high school for students…
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Help sought for fundraiser for schools’ athletic fields
Jane Meggitt’s Allentown feature in the May 25 issue of the Examiner was pointed and timely as we approach the summer months. Meggitt covered all the corners of the issue surrounding the deplorable athletic field conditions at the Allentown High School and Upper Freehold Regional Elementary Middle Schools and the lack of funds to not…
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Self-service gas pumps: the horror, the horror!
Greg Bean Coda I got a real kick out of the collective wailing and gnashing of teeth among many of my fellow Nanny Staters when Gov. Jon Corzine recently proposed allowing us to pump our own gas as a way of reducing prices. New Jersey – which first made self-service fuel pumping illegal in 1949…
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Board talks about new Upper Freehold school
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – Community members learned more about what to expect from the new middle school during a special presentation last week. Upper Freehold Regional Middle School Vice Principal Mark Guterl and Upper Freehold Regional School District Assistant Superintendent Maybeth Conway gave a presentation to the community…
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Reader says there is no reason to fear black bears
There is no reason for people to fear black bears “in their midst,” because bears are basically timid creatures. No one knows how the three bears tragically killed recently found their way to Trenton, Livingston and Short Hills. There were no reported sightings along the way in towns to the north – the bears mysteriously…
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Greg Bean
Coda It’s much more fun when you’re playing for keeps When I was a kid of a certain age, we didn’t measure wealth by money, or social status by family lineage – we measured both by marbles. In our small town, there were no private schools and very few home-schoolers. Everyone from every segment of…
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Millstone resident grateful for town officials’ efforts
The endless responsibilities we face at work and at home consume our lives. Enormous amounts of time and effort are required by all of us to meet challenges that continuously present themselves. It is within this framework that individuals step forward or are called upon to participate in government, be it national, state or local.…
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Lori Clinch
Are We There Yet? The Clinch clan sure livens up a campsite As a family, we thought it would be a ton of fun to head out on a camping trip. Turns out that thinking about it was as fun as it got. It wasn’t so much the fact that the campsites were cramped with…
