• Casino execs offer $600M to put slots at racetrack

    Local legislators ask state to open bidding process to put gambling machines at tracks Local legislators have called for slots at horse racetracks following a $600 million offer from a group of casino executives. Sen. Jennifer Beck, Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon and Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande asked the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA) to seek…

  • Millstone Twp. voters strike down school budget again

    BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent Achild in kindergarten now was not yet born the last time a school budget passed in Millstone. For the sixth year in a row, voters defeated the school budget at the polls. The township’s habit of striking down school-spending plans continued in the April 20 election in a 1,149 to 869…

  • Meet the sheep at Walnford on May 9

    Historic Walnford on Walnford Road in Upper Freehold will host a free spinning and weaving program 1-4 p.m. May 9. Visit the site to meet the sheep that provide wool fleece, watch expert fingers spin the fibers, and see how the resulting yarn weaves into cloth on the large floor looms. For more information, call…

  • Voters support Roosevelt Public School budget

    Average homeowner can expect to pay $4,350 to support spending plan BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Voters in the Roosevelt school election overwhelmingly supported the $1.4 million tax levy to support the 2010-11 school budget. While only 168 voters took to the polls April 20, twice as many cast ballots for the $2.5 million spending…

  • New Jersey is the Titanic

    State government is sinking in debt and deficit and Gov. Chris Christie has quite rightly sounded the alarm. It isn’t his fault that we’ve hit the recession iceberg, but unfortunately the lifeboat situation is perilous with few spots for all the passengers. As captain of the ship, his responsibility is to ensure fairness. Some will…

  • Community ensures state-of-the-art medical facilities

    On behalf of the Millstone Township Hospital Auxiliary, I want to take this opportunity to thank the community for their continued support of our organization throughout our 45 years of existence. Through your generosity during the year of 2009, we were able to present a check to CentraState Medical Center in the amount of $20,003.82.…

  • School administrators ready to move education forward

    It’s all too easy to criticize Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed fiscal year 2011 budget. We are frustrated at losing valuable programs and services. We’re anxious about how our profession will fare, and who will have a job come September. We want to maintain the high quality of New Jersey education for students. Yet Gov. Christie…

  • for the record •••

    The article titled “Proposed Roosevelt budget less than $1M” in the April 22 edition misstated that the average property taxes in Roosevelt would decrease as a result of an across-the-board 20 percent reduction in land values this year. According to Tax Assessor Michael Ticktin, while assessments are about 12 percent lower, on average, for 2010…

  • Millstone has done a great injustice to its schoolchildren

    Congratulations to all Millstone residents. We did it again. We defeated the school budget! Are you happy? Are you proud of yourself? I’m not. I’m upset — really upset about this. I find this absolutely disgraceful that we cannot pass a budget in this town. Millstone lost $1.6 million off the top from our governor.…

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