• Ticse reaping benefits of giving up soccer for cross country

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer Last fall, Caroline Ticse made a decision to skip playing soccer for Allentown High School’s girls team, a sport she has played since she was very young, to run cross country. She made this decision to be better prepared as a distance runner for the school’s indoor and outdoor girls…

  • Time to seize opportunity to improve health care insurance

    Health care reform certainly isn’t easy. But failing to pass a comprehensive overhaul shouldn’t be an option. Right now, more than 45 millionAmericans don’t have health insurance. Given the current recession, that number is likely on the rise. And national health care spending continues to escalate at an alarming rate. Congress’ health care bills certainly…

  • NJ Transit cuts will hurt those who need it most

    I testified before the New Jersey Assembly Transportation Committee on the merits of Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed plan to cut New Jersey Transit funding. Along with other speakers, we reviewed whether it would be good policy.   I should start off by saying I sympathize with Christie and acknowledge that our state is in a…

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    Kevin “Two Steps” O’Connell sounds a drumbeat as he discusses the New Jersey Lenni Lenape culture to fourth-graders during an assembly at Millstone Elementary School on Feb. 24. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Friends recall mother of 4 as strong, caring woman

    Susan Pontoriero-Fiordland, 44, died from injuries in Feb. 22 traffic accident BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent UPPER FREEHOLD — Susan Pontoriero Fiordland, 44, a mother of four who was killed in a traffic accident Feb. 22 on Route 524, was remembered by her friends as a caring person who advocated for special needs children. One friend,…

  • Services held for Cream Ridge woman killed in Rt. 524 accident

    UPPER FREEHOLD — Funeral services were held Monday at Allentown Presbyterian Church for Susan Pontoriero-Fiordland, 44, of Cream Ridge, who died from injuries sustained in a traffic accident at milepost 8.6 on Route 524 on Monday, Feb. 22. New Jersey State Police said Pontoriero- Fiordland was ejected from her 2001 Lincoln Navigator after it collided…

  • Millstone updates rules for recycling

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE — New state and county rules concerning solid waste management means the updating of regulations for the township’s separation, storage, collection and recovery of designated recyclable materials. The Township Committee by a 4-0 vote on Feb. 17 adopted an ordinance stipulating the new regulations. Committeeman Gary Dorfman was absent.…

  • Relatives tell of the tragedy of Alzheimer’s disease

    Share stories of mental decline of patients, heartache of caregivers BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Mildred “Muney” Davis is described by her son as a “real lady”: she taught her son to hold doors open and she never used four-letter words. She worked for her husband Lou’s business, volunteered her time for the Jewish Chronic…

  • Storm-water issues topic of board hearing

    If OK’d, adjacent projects would share above-ground basin BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent The Millstone Township Zoning Board of Adjustment wants an applicant’s engineer to provide testimony at the next public hearing about the pros and cons of an underground versus above-ground storm-water management system. At the board’s Feb. 24 meeting, Greg Valesi, engineer for the…

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