Category: Examiner Calendar

  • Show to feature carriages, miniature horses, vendors

    The Garden State Horse & Carriage Society and the Handicapped High Riders Club will hold the 14th annual GSH&CS Pleasure Driving Show Oct. 3 at the Horse Park of New Jersey, Upper Freehold Township. The competition, which will begin at 9 a.m., will feature a wide variety of breeds from miniature horses to draft horses…

  • Millstone Community Ed. begins new fall term

    Millstone Community Education announced the beginning of its fall session. The classes offer a wide range of interesting subjects for adults, from technology classes to health and fitness, cooking, gardening, business, many crafts, chess, art, magic, manners, and guitar for school-age children, just to name a few. Classes being the first week of October. For…

  • Oct. 1 is Italian Night at Millstone Elks Lodge

    Millstone Elks Lodge 2613 will serve its next Friday night dinner Oct. 1, which will be Italian Night featuring chicken parmesan, stuffed shells and other items prepared by the Convention Committee. Dinners are served from 6-8 p.m., and the cost is $10 for adults, $7 for children, unless otherwise noted. Proceeds benefit charities support by…

  • Local first aid squad, fire company seek volunteers

    Emergency services to residents of Upper Freehold Township are provided by the Allentown First Aid Squad and the Hope Fire Company No. 1, both located on Route 526 in Upper Freehold Township. The First Aid Squad is comprised of all volunteers, and they are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The…

  • St. Joseph’s to host ‘Purely Gourmet’ event

    The Ladies of St. Joseph at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Millstone, will host a “Purely Gourmet Sampling Party” Oct. 5 from 6:30-9 p.m. in the church hall, Stillhouse Road. Purely Gourmet food items will be available for sampling and purchase, and Purely Gourmet baskets will also be available. Admission is free, and no reservations are…

  • Allentown’s Fall Harvest Festival Oct. 9 and 10

    The 21st annual Allentown Fall Harvest Festival is scheduled for Oct. 9 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Oct. 10 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., rain or shine. This year’s festival will include artisans and crafters from all over the tri-state area, displaying and selling their wares on Main Street. Food vendors will…

  • Allentown Garden Club to meet Oct. 14

    The October meeting of the Allentown Garden Club will take place Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Allentown Methodist Church, Church Street (next to LaPiazza). Rick Mikula, owner-operator of Hole-in-Hand Butterfly Farm, will present a program on landscaping with butterflies. Mikula is an internationally known lecturer, author and habitat consultant and recently appeared on…

  • Historical society to host lecture on Octavius Catto

    As part of Allentown’s Harvest Festival Weekend, the Allentown-Upper Freehold Historical Society will inaugurate a program series. The first program in the series will discuss Octavius Catto, a young black man who became an early civil rights advocate. Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer will present the program. Catto was schooled…

  • ‘180 Turnaround’ walk and run set for Oct. 24

    The third annual “180 Turnaround — Walk to Take Steps to End Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault” will be held at Taylor Pavilion, Ocean Avenue between Fifth and Sixth avenues, Belmar. The event will be held Oct. 24, during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, with registration beginning at 9 a.m., followed by the “180 Turnaround” run…