Category: Examiner Calendar

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Allentown High to host program on heroin use

    The Millstone and Allentown/Upper Freehold alliances to prevent alcoholism and substance abuse will sponsor a program to address the growing problem of heroin use in New Jersey’s suburbs. Special Agent Nicholas Calleo of the Drug and Enforcement Administration’s Newark field office will address the issue at a special program Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at…

  • Clarksburg Inn to host comedy night Sept. 17

    The Clarksburg Inn, Millstone, will present another night of comedy featuring musical comedian Gary Delena along with comedian Chris Rich and the night’s master of ceremonies, Jim Johnson. Delena has performed at Caroline’s on Broadway and at the Stress Factory Comedy Club as well as with the National Lampoon Touring Company, and his television credits…

  • Nursing Opportunities Open House Sept. 21

    A Nursing Opportunities Open House will be held Sept. 21, 1:30-5 p.m., at the John L. Montgomery Care Center, 115 Dutch Lane Road, Freehold Township. The event is designed to give those in the nursing profession an opportunity to explore employment with the Monmouth County Department of Health care facilities. Registered nurses, licensed practical nurses,…

  • 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…

  • U.F. Community Day set for Sept. 18

    Upper Freehold Township will hold its second annual Community Day Sept. 18 beginning at 1 p.m. at the Byron Johnson Recreation Area. The event will feature oldies music provided by DJ Ultrax; games, sack races, a tug of war, and a candy crawl; stilt walker, juggler, clown and balloonist; a petting zoo, pony rides and…