• Winter softball tourney was snow much fun

    ALLENTOWN — Eighteen teams played softball in 8 inches of snow to raise a record $3,800 for the Upper Freehold Regional Education Foundation’s grants program this winter. Softball teams from as far away as Bethlehem, Pa., descended onto the Allentown High School playing fields on Feb. 20 for the third annual Sno-Ball Softball Tournament. “It…

  • Millstone assessing damage to roadways

    BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — It’s a safe bet that residents are happy to see the end of the winter of 2010. Mother Nature unleashed her fury in the form of snow and rain this season, with Saturday, March 13, being an especially fierce day of torrential rain and high winds. At the March…

  • First things first for Taft, Allentown softball season

    Taft headed to Lehigh on scholarship BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer Kristen Taft watched Lehigh University’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament opener against Kansas University with keen interest last Thursday (March 18) and with good reason. Allentown High School’s Kristen Taft (l) gets an out at first base during the Redbird scrimmage with Rumson-Fair Haven March…

  • Just a politician who told voters what they wanted to hear

    Candidate Chris Christie said, “The last thing Chris will do is to follow Corzine’s lead in eliminating property tax rebates for 1.2 million New Jerseyans.” But wait, Gov. Chris Christie is now saying that he will scale back or even eliminate the property tax rebate. So, where’s the change? All I see is another politician…

  • Giving green through EarthShare

    For decades, charitable organizations have recognized the benefits of reaching people where they work. A single workplace-giving program can access hundreds or thousands of employees far more efficiently than mailing individual appeals to people’s homes. When it comes to conservation and environmental causes in this state, the leading workplace-giving program is EarthShare New Jersey. Its…

  • Right to Repair Act important to seniors

    Few consumer bills are as important to seniors as the Motor Vehicle Owners’ Right to Repair Act (HR 2057). Older Americans often live on a fixed income and many rely on trusted, reasonably priced neighborhood repair shops to keep their vehicles serviced, repaired and operating safely. With thousands of car dealers closed, and many others…

  • Don’t let Washington gridlock jeopardize reform

    Getting Americans back to work is one of the most pressing priorities for our nation. People who are unemployed are less likely to have health insurance coverage. Our nation needs to find ways to fix our broken health care system. It can take a worker over the age of 50 twice as long as someone…

  • UFRSD and N.J. households are in same boat

    To the Upper Freehold Township Board of Education, you all need to be checked for drug use. You have to be using drugs. It is the only explanation for proposing a nearly 10 percent increase in the school budget. To ask for that kind of increase in these times when people are losing their homes…

  • Now’s the time for belt tightening in N.J.

    I agree with Gov. Chris Christie’s approach to solving the fiscal and spending cancer that afflicts New Jersey. It is time to end the dependencies that school administrations, county governments and local governments have on the state for support. It is time for belt tightening at all levels and for each entity to stand on…

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