Category: Examiner Calendar
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Artists and crafters needed for fall festival
The 21st annual Allentown Fall Harvest Festival is seeking artists and crafters to participate in this year’s festivities, scheduled for Oct. 9 and 10, rain or shine, along Allentown’s Main Street. Only hand-crafted items will be accepted — no flea market or buy and sell. The jewelry category is filled up, and no food vendor…
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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…
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Kids and community in Upper Freehold
JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Left, Allentown Mayor Stuart Fierstein reacts after realizing he is about to be submerged in water in the dunk tank on the cool brisk day of the Upper Freehold Community Day Sunday held at Byron Johnson Park. Above, Girl Scout Troop 266 member Amanda Bullock, 6, pulls 3-year-old Karly Bullock around in…
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Bake and mum sale in Roosevelt Oct. 2
The Roosevelt Cooperative Nursery School will hold its annual bake and mum sale Oct. 2 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in front of the Roosevelt post office, North Rochdale Road (Route 571).
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Nominations sought for scholarship for heroism
The Higher Education Student Assistance Authority, Trenton, is seeking applicants for the Dana Christmas Scholarship for Heroism. The scholarship is a one-time, nonrenewable college scholarship of up to $10,000 awarded to up to five recipients each year. The scholarship honors the Seton Hall University student who is credited with saving lives and helping many students…
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Volunteers needed at therapeutic riding stables
Handicapped High Riders is a recreational and therapeutic horseback riding program for the learning disabled, mentally retarded and emotionally or physically handicapped. Volunteers are needed to lead a horse or pony, groom and tack horses and ponies, and sidewalk with special-needs children. Help is also needed in the office, or with landscaping or planting flowers.…
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With the support of local school administrators and teachers, Assemblyman Bill Baroni announced he will introduce a bill to repeal state legislation implementing school budget caps. “It’s erroneous public policy,” Baroni (R-Mercer/Middlesex) said of bill S1701. The bill, created to curb property tax increases, passed both houses of the Legislature on June 24. The bill…
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Participants sought for Leukemia Society walk
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society will hold its signature walk-event, “Light The Night,” Oct. 9 on the Ocean Grove Boardwalk at 7 p.m., with registration to start at 5 p.m. The Southern New Jersey/Shore Region Chapter is currently seeking participants and volunteers to raise money toward the society’s mission of finding cures for leukemia, lymphoma,…
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Newcomers Night open to all Millstone women
The Millstone Township Women’s Organization will hold its 23rd annual Newcomers Night on Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at a member’s home. The purpose of the event is to give women resident in Millstone an opportunity to meet the current members and find out about the club. The nonprofit organization, founded in 1982, has more…
