• Health care bill is garbage filled with gimmick

    The Democratic Party-controlled U.S. Senate has exhibited the most despicable, untrustworthy, lowdown, “down in the mud,” and dishonest behavior in the crafting and rigging of a vote on the national health care bill that I have ever seen in all of my adult years. And President Obama has allowed the House and the Senate to…

  • Rural towns stranded without Right to Repair

    The National Grange is the nation’s oldest general farm and rural public interest organization representing nearly 200,000 Grange members affiliated with 2,700 local, county and state Grange chapters. We call on Congress to pass the Motor Vehicle Owners’ Right to Repair Act (HR 2057) in order to protect individual vehicle ownership rights, especially for residents…

  • Winter sports pep rally a spirited affair

    CHRIS KELLY staff Top: Members of the boys basketball team get pumped up during Allentown High School’s winter sports pep rally on Dec. 18. Bottom: Cheerleader Caitlyn Warakomski helps boost team spirit. CHRIS KELLY staff

  • Millstone Elks donate wheelchairs to schools

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE — Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE) members often joke that the acronym for their group actually stands for “Best People On Earth.” BPOE makes many contributions to the community, the latest of which are four wheelchairs, worth $1,500, for students in need in the Millstone Township School…

  • Elementary school raises the flag of hope

    PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Clockwise from top: Students, war veterans and community members attend a POW/MIA flag-raising ceremony at the Upper Freehold Regional Elementary School on Dec. 7. C.J. Shaw, 9, reads while Principal Kelly Huggins looks on. Army veteran Barry Rosenzweig, Freehold Township, and Navy veteran Bill Nurko, Millstone, hoist the flag. PHOTOS…

  • Room to breathe, learn and then some

    School district plans how to best use space when middle school moves off campus BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer ALLENTOWN — All students will have more room to learn when the new middle school opens. Upper Freehold Regional School District administrators collaborated with staff to best determine how space in the current elementary/middle school, high…

  • School district needs to improve bookkeeping

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE — If the Millstone Township School District’s were a private company, its revenue would total $32.6 million, according to its auditor. Rodney Haines, of the firm Holman and Frenia P.C. in Medford, presented information regarding the district’s annual audit at the Dec. 14 Board of Education meeting. “It would…

  • Seniors should watch out for latest financial scam

    Guest Column • Carol Abaya The 17 percent of Monmouth County’s population who are senior citizens should beware. Various consumer watchdog groups are now warning seniors to stay away from reverse mortgages (RM). RM brokers, now targeting seniors, are the same “players” as those who touted sub-prime mortgages. Under a reverse mortgage, a lender advances…

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