Category: Examiner Opinion

A chance for an epic pick slips away Lori Clinch I t’s no big secret that my beloved spouse, Pat, and I love antiques. We love to dig for them, shop for them and incorporate them into every aspect of our lives. We fix them, refinish them and, at the end of a long day,…

Joni Mitchell sang the words “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot” in 1970, referring to the demise of nature and the environment due to human intervention. In 2014, the words are as pertinent as ever. I was dismayed to recently read that there is a petition to pave Harmony Hill Road in…

Lifeguards wait for the start of the 30th annual National Park System All-Women Lifeguard Tournament held at Sandy Hook in northern Monmouth County on July 30.

Mr. Albarella, 50, of Millstone, passed away suddenly on Sunday, July 20, 2014, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. He was born in Italy and lived in North Bergen prior to settling in Millstone to raise his family. Mr. Albarella was the owner of Valle Caudina Provisions, Millstone. He was predeceased by his father, Francesco…

A group of young men make their way along the boardwalk in Ocean Grove on July 22.

I t was about a year ago that the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) began mailing its first batch of Skip the Trip notices to our customers, affording a majority of New Jersey citizens the opportunity to renew their driver’s license or nondriver IDs by mail. The Christie administration and the MVC are pleased…

Yellow daisies add sparkle to a summer day.

Aggressive laws with Sharon Peters I received many comments from readers when I requested a sharing of ideas about how to address aggressive driving in ways that might reduce it. Several recommended this: “stricter laws with teeth.” I love stronger highway laws — not all drivers do. And lawmakers are often reluctant to upset that…

Want lower property taxes? Change New Jersey’s justices Mark Rosman On July 7, WKXW-FM posted a news story on its website which reported that state legislators may be in session in Trenton during the traditional summer break. The news story contained a quote from the speaker of the state Assembly, Vincent Prieto (D-Hudson). Prieto is…