Category: Examiner Opinion
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CentraState golf outings June 10 and July 1
CentraState’s Band Aid Open golf outing will swing into action at Forsgate Country Club, Monroe Township, on June 10, with a choice of shot-gun starts — 8 a.m. or 1:15 p.m. The Band Aid Open Committee, co-chaired by Robert Bennett, Freehold, and Dr. Ken Tomkovich, Manalapan, has designated the proceeds from this year’s event to…
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Our View
County review fits in withtotal look at state Our View County review fits in with total look at state’s health County review fits in with total look at state’s health Freeholders in Monmouth, Ocean and Middlesex counties softened their stance a bit this week in regard to a piece of legislation that is before the…
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Obituaries
Obituaries JOSEPH J. JOZEFOWICZ, 76, of East Brunswick died May 24 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 1988, he was employed for 34 years by the East Brunswick Board of Education as a teacher and principal. Surviving are his wife, Helen Makowski Jozefowicz; two daughters, Nancy Pape of…
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Millstone school board, union remain at odds
Officials hope to receive fact-finder By alison granitoStaff Writer By alison granito Staff Writer With the end of the school year rapidly approaching, the Millstone school board and union appear to be no closer to having a signed contract in hand. According to board officials, both parties are anxiously awaiting the arrival of a report…
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Your Turn
Guest ColumnLinda O Your Turn Guest Column Linda O’Reilly Former board member asks for patience Guest Column Linda O’Reilly Former board member asks for patience I feel compelled to write this letter to my fellow citizens of Millstone in order to address the misinformation about the process the Board of Education and the Millstone Township…
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Indian Run defeated, but ‘fall back’ proposal still looms
I want to publicly thank the Upper Freehold Township Planning Board for defeating the Indian Run conceptual proposal on May 27. The development would have added 375 housing units, approximately 60,000 square feet of warehouse and office space on Breza Road, and an overwhelming burden on our schools and infrastructure. I must point out, however,…
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Resident: tie school tax increase to inflation
How do we get a tax increase that is well over the rate of inflation when the voters rejected the bloated Upper Freehold school budget? We are still facing a 5.7 percent increase when the rate of inflation, according to the fed, is only 3.6 percent. This has not been a recent phenomenon. Year after…
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Your Turn
Guest ColumnSue KozelCommission obstructs pro-environment action Your Turn Guest Column Sue Kozel Commission obstructs pro-environment action Guest Column Sue Kozel Commission obstructs pro-environment action Shouldn’t an environmental commission address important environmental policy matters that affect its community? When it comes to Upper Freehold, nothing operates normally. On May 12, Chairman David Perlman called me to…
