Category: Examiner Opinion

  • Resident: Proposed site for bus depot is unsuitable

    I am an extremely concerned resident of Roberts Road and would like to highlight several reasons why I don’t want or need this commercial/industrial bus depot in my neighborhood. I believe the School Board should give serious thought to: A facility of 60 buses would significantly increase traffic on our narrow residential road. There is…

  • Millstone input makes sense

    Millstone input makes sense Giving those elected to represent Millstone residents on the township school board better access to the Upper Freehold Regional School District makes sense. Hopefully, UFRSD and Millstone school officials will follow through on plans discussed at last week’s regional school board meeting to form a committee to help Millstone’s voice be…

  • Your Turn

    Richard D. BrodyGuest ColumnSept. 19 is a special day to remember POWs, MIAs Your Turn Richard D. Brody Guest Column Sept. 19 is a special day to remember POWs, MIAs Richard D. Brody Guest Column Sept. 19 is a special day to remember POWs, MIAs Sept. 19 is National POW/MIA Recognition Day. As we drive…

  • School district stresses need for new facility

    BY ALISON GRANITOStaff Writer BY ALISON GRANITO Staff Writer Millstone MILLSTONE — No matter what decision voters make later this month, school officials say the district’s need for more classroom space will not disappear. On Sept. 30, voters will decide whether to approve $39.9 million toward the school district’s plan to build a new middle…

  • Millstone wants more input on school issues

    Most of AHS BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Most of AHS’s student body from neighboring town BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — They did not gain more school board seats, but Millstone school officials hope to have greater influence on what happens at Allentown High School this year. Patricia Coffey, Millstone’s lone representative on…

  • Millstone school board asked to re-examine costs

    I moved to Millstone to enjoy a quiet, peaceful, rural community where my wife and I could raise our family. We recognize good schools are an important part of a good community, but are very concerned that the current school board is not acting in a fiscally responsible manner and has not shared all the…

  • Powers urges residents to ‘Step Out, Save Lives’

    The American Heart Association reports that there are more than 10 million survivors of heart attack, cardiac arrest, stroke and heart surgery living in our country today. Thanks to the work of the American Heart Association and events like American Heart Walk, I’m proud to say that I am one of those survivors. I join…

  • Our View

    Millstone officials need to sit down with residents Our View Millstone officials need to sit down with residents Millstone’s municipal officials need to follow the school board’s lead and sit down with residents who live immediately around the site where the school district has plans to build its new middle school. The plan is extremely…

  • Your Turn

    Your Turn Guest Column Gregory M. Cinque Millstone resident: Start over with a clean slate Guest Column Gregory M. Cinque Millstone resident: Start over with a clean slate (An open letter to Gov. James McGreevey, State Sen. John Bennett, Assemblyman Michael Arnone, and Assemblywoman Clare Farragher) Millstone Township, nestled in western Mon-mouth County, has been…