Category: Examiner Opinion

  • Committeeman :Use surplus funds to pay for school land

    The Nov. 6 Millstone Township Committee meeting, a resident posed a question about the ability of the township to help fund the purchase of land for the township’s school system. I responded that, in my opinion, the town can afford to bond and buy the land, based on the following methodology. Our municipal bank accounts…

  • Residents should take fight to legislators

    Although residents of Lynwood Estates do not think the Upper Freehold Township Committee went far enough in their efforts to fight the more than 5 million square feet of warehouse space that has been approved just over the border in neighboring Washington Town-ship, the committee was smart to hold back a little bit. If Upper…

  • Freeholder thanks voters, family for support

    Please let me use your fine newspaper to express my thanks to the voters of Monmouth County for re-electing me and my running mates, Claire French and Tom Powers, to serve for another term in county government. I know I speak for the county clerk and all the Freeholders when I say we will continue…

  • Resident believes coverage of politics is biased

    After this year’s Republican primary, I chose to stay out of the fray of Millstone elections. I have also chosen to read as little of the Examiner as possible. It is because that, in my opinion, over the past several years, the Examiner has wholeheartedly endorsed a faction of the Republican Party that has put…

  • Obituaries

    JOYCE J. BAKER of Millstone died Nov. 8 at home. Born in Elizabeth, she had been a resident of Millstone for seven years. Mrs. Baker was a real estate agent for Coldwell Banker, Princeton Junction. She and her husband had owned Golden State Systems Inc. in San Luis Obispo, Calif., for 14 years. She was…

  • Supporters of Habitat come through again

    On Oct. 13, Freehold Area Habitat for Humanity held its third annual "Motorcycle Ride for Affordable Housing." Although the weather was not the best, we still had many participants, and through their support we raised more than $13,000 — a figure which far surpassed last year’s total. Our thanks go out to all the motorcyclists…

  • Millstoners must work together, resident says

    I, for one, was absolutely broadsided by the Nov. 1 mailing. Now, I read your editorial and am impressed by the general content, but I feel you are "throwing the baby out with the bath water" by lumping the Republican candidates in with the slime that wrote those hateful letters. Roger Staib and Nancy Grbelja…

  • Resident likens Millstone politics to Roman circus

    Your editorial of Nov. 7 hit the nail on the head. I love my home, my town and my country, but God save me from the dirt, smears, deliberate blindness, cliques, grudges, feuds, childish shenanigans, and distortions of Millstone government and politics. (Yes, I am a victim. One can see ultra-conservative U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch…

  • Committee should make e-mails official

    The discussion before the Millstone Township Com-mittee last week on whether there should be a change in how the e-mail correspondence to, from and between members of the governing body should be treated was timely. In today’s world, e-mail is no longer a novelty but an integral part of everyday life for many people. For…