Category: Examiner Opinion

  • London bombings could cause band to cancel trip

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN — The recent terrorist attacks in London are making some parents think twice about sending their children in the marching band on an overseas trip this year. Earlier in the year, the Allentown High School Redbird Marching Band received an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II…

  • Letters

    Agency discusses need for organ donations The need for organ and tissue donations grows more crucial each day. Minority communities are especially affected. Aug. 1 was established as National Minority Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Day to bring attention to this health crisis. NJ Organ and Tissue Sharing Network strives to share factual information about…

  • School doors still aren’t open at Kiddie Academy

    Preschool could help ease overcrowding in township schools BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — Two local women who have sunk their life savings into a proposed day-care facility appeared before the Board of Health on Aug. 9. Pam Maxwell, of Upper Freehold, and Kathy Naugle, of Millstone, went before…

  • Warehouseville, N.J.: Watch out for trucks

    Coda Greg Bean I don’t know for certain where the members of the South Brunswick Planning Board live, but I would be surprised beyond belief to find that any of them live near the once-pristine farmland and rural neighborhoods close to New Jersey Turnpike Exit 8A. The bulk of South Brunswick’s voters don’t live near…

  • Interim superintendent to head U.F. schools

    School board hires new firm to search for candidates BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN — An interim superintendent was appointed by the Board of Education at its Aug. 10 meeting. The board unanimously approved the appointment of Robert “Bob” Smith for the temporary position. The Upper Freehold Regional School District’s…

  • On Campus

    Rider University, Lawrenceville, named Millstone residents Eric Herkert and Aurora Slothus, Allentown residents Cassan Ingalsbe, Jeffrey Leikhim and Christina Tindall and Upper Freehold Township’s Beth Manhat to the dean’s list for the spring semester. Lindsay Hines, daughter of Patricia Hines-Tote and Arthur Tote of Allentown, was inducted into the Kappa Delta Pi education honor society…

  • Millstone the first to brake for horses

    Even though Millstone Township officials continue to do anything they can to stop unnecessary development, they can’t control what’s going on in the rest of New Jersey. Unfortunately that means more houses, warehouses, shopping malls and other kinds of structures continue to pop up all around the community that prides itself on its rural character.…

  • For the Record

    Due to a reporting error, an article in the Aug. 4 edition of the Examiner titled “Protest heats up at synagogue” stated that Elly Shapiro, the president of the Roosevelt synagogue, stepped down from her post; she remains the president of the synagogue.