Category: Examiner Calendar

  • Underage drinking talk slated at AHS Oct. 26

    The Allentown/Upper Freehold Municipal Alliance to Prevent Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, commonly known as the Drug Alliance, will hold a communitywide forum at 2 p.m. Oct. 26 at Allentown High School (AHS), 27 High St., to discuss and raise awareness about the issue of underage drinking. “Start Talking Before They Start Drinking” will address the…

  • Sponsors sought for local students’ walkathon

    The PTA of the Upper Freehold Regional Elementary/Middle School will host a student walkathon Oct. 9-12, and students in grades K-7 are seeking sponsors. Students will walk laps around the building during gym classes in an effort to raise awareness and funding for school programs and the local Crop Hunger Walk. For more information on…

  • Millstone seniors plan brunch, theater bus trip

    The Millstone Senior Citizens Organization is sponsoring a bus trip Oct. 14 to the Bayberry Inn in Long Beach Island for brunch, followed by a trip to the Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven to see “Driving Miss Daisy.” The cost is $75, which is allinclusive. For reservations, call Ann at (732) 350- 6168; Margaret, (609)…

  • Booster Club schedules Witches Hollow Run

    The fifth annual Witches Hollow Run, sponsored by the Millstone Township Booster Club to benefit Millstone Township student athletics, will take place Oct. 28 at the Millstone Primary School, Schoolhouse Road. The event will begin at 9 a.m. with a one-mile fun run. The USATF certified 5K run will begin at 9:30 a.m. Adult pre-registration…

  • Teen dance party coming to Roosevelt in October

    The Roosevelt Recreation Department will host a teen dance party from 8-11 p.m. Oct. 12 for students in grades seven to 10. For more information contact the recreation department at (609) 448-0539.

  • Garden club speaker to discuss native plants

    Jane Nogaki, a pesticide program coordinator for the New Jersey Environmental Federation and longtime environmental activist, will discuss the importance of native plants in the home garden at the Oct. 11 meeting of the Allentown Garden Club. Using native plants saves money and reduces work and water usage while providing benefits for wildlife and humans.…

  • Exceptional women sought for special honor

    Nominations are being sought for the third annual Exceptional Women Program. Anyone who knows of a woman in Monmouth or Ocean counties who he or she thinks is exceptional may nominate her for this honor. She may have battled a disease, or she’s juggling kids and a job. She may selflessly help others or always…

  • Park System’s ‘Creatures of Night’ begins Oct. 12

    Monmouth County Park System will offer “Creatures of the Night” Fridays and Saturdays Oct. 12-27 at Huber Woods Park on Brown’s Dock Road, Locust Section of Middletown. The annual series of nighttime wagon rides features a variety of skits about wildlife. The production has a cast of characters, from bats and raccoons to deer and…

  • Historical society slates meeting at Black Forest

    The Allentown-Upper Freehold Historical Society will meet the second Thursday of every month from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Black Forest Restaurant, located in the mill on Main Street in Allentown. On Oct. 11, Ramona Truncer will present a book review of “The Diary of Sarah Tabitha Reid, 1868- 1873.” Reid was a resident…