Category: Examiner Opinion
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Novellino seeks to be elected to BOE
MILLSTONE – Resident Deborah Novellino seeks election to the Millstone Township Board of Education. Novellino, who resides on Carriage Way, has lived in town for nine years and has two children in the Millstone Township School District. She said the district is currently facing diverse challenges. Novellino said she would like to see the new…
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AHS prepares to tackle student substance abuse
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – The high school will attempt to curb substance abuse among its students. Allentown High School Vice Principal Brian Myslinski gave a presentation to the Board of Education earlier this month about proposed policies and procedures relating to substance abuse. Last year, AHS had to…
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U.F. schools want better marks on next report card
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – The school district will undergo some changes due to declining test scores, according to Curriculum Director Maybeth Conway. Earlier this month, Conway presented an overview to the Board of Education of the Upper Freehold Regional School District’s “current efforts” and “future direction.” The…
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Coyote was just taking a nice walk in the park
Coda Greg Bean I was listening to the folks on National Public Radio last Wednesday morning, talking about the poor coyote that authorities were chasing around New York’s Central Park with helicopters, tranquilizer darts and the like, and I wondered why they just didn’t let the critter be. There’s no telling how the misguided animal…
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Letters
Residents must choose: rural or town center I have been extremely pleased reading all of the antidevelopment sentiment in Upper Freehold Township (UFT) in the local papers. It was also encouraging to see 100 UFT residents attended the February Planning Board meeting to protest the town center/village center plan. I couldn’t agree more with all…
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Seniors will feel the sting of tax increases
Coda Greg Bean In my neighborhood of East Bruns-wick, there are several elderly women and men struggling to get by. Most of these wonderful people have lived in the community for most of their adult lives. They raised their families there in modest houses. And after the kids moved away and their partners died, they…
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District revamps standards for advanced algebra class
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – Starting next year, the school district will use a new procedure for accepting students into its eighth-grade Algebra I class. Maybeth Conway, the assistant superintendent and curriculum director of the Upper Freehold Regional School District, gave a presentation on the new procedure at the…
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Letters
Residents urged to attend planning meeting The Upper Freehold Planning Board recently completed a survey to determine the direction for growth in our township. The results of the survey concluded the need for a village center which could include condominiums, single-family homes, townhouses, residential flats over stores, professional offices, a hotel, a conference center, equine-theme…
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School construction postponed
UPPER FREEHOLD – Ground-breaking for the new middle school on Ellisdale Road will not take place in April as planned. At the March 15 Board of Education meeting, interim Superintendent of Schools Robert Smith said he does not know when construction on the 46-acre parcel will begin. Smith said the delay is due to planned…
