Category: Examiner News

  • Memories fill fabric of widow’s quilt

    Quilting group stitches blanket from shirts of Marine killed in combat BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Stacey Sammis holds the quilt that Rebecca’s Reel Quilters of Poricy Park, Middletown, made from her husband’s shirts. Sammis’ husband was killed a year ago in Iraq. After Stacey Sammis’ husband, Capt.…

  • No arrests made yet in bias crime incident

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLERStaff Writer BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer ROOSEVELT — State police are investigating a bias crime incident that was discovered at the elementary school ballfield on May 4. Officers found a number of swastikas drawn in the dirt of the ballfield, said Lt. Kathy Devlin. State police were alerted by Millstone Township resident…

  • Veteran teacher says it’s time to go

    BY EVAN NATELSONStaff Writer BY EVAN NATELSON Staff Writer MILLSTONE — An era for Millstone preschoolers will end when Virginia "Ginny" Boyce steps down from her role as teacher and director of the Millstone Christian Preschool. "It’s been a fantastic experience," said Boyce. "I will really miss the school and the children. I’m glad to have had…

  • Planning Board member resigns over zoning

    BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — Planning Board Vice Chairman Ivan Olinsky resigned from the board last week in the wake of the board’s vote to consider 6-acre zoning. Olinsky, who is president of Princeton Nurseries and has served on the board for three years, disagreed with the way…

  • Ballpark will bring ‘only headaches, no benefits’

    Millstone officials will fight Monroe ballpark proposal BY PATRICIA A. MILLERStaff Writer Ballpark will bring ‘only headaches, no benefits’ BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer It’s war. Millstone officials have vowed to do anything they can to stop the construction of a 6,000-seat baseball stadium on Route 33 in nearby Monroe Township. "Millstone Township wants…

  • Gun club in Jackson teaches firearm safety

    Free program will allowyoung children and teensto use real weapons BY DICK METZGARStaff Writer Gun club in Jackson teaches firearm safety Free program will allow young children and teens to use real weapons BY DICK METZGAR Staff Writer JACKSON — Children’s fascination with guns is often said to start when they play "cops and robbers" with toy…

  • Dirt bikers riding roughshod

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLERStaff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff Kimberly Iuzzolino, 6, maneuvers around the cones during the Bicycle Rodeo coordinated by Girl Scout Ashley Blair for her Silver Award project. Ashley is a member of the Millstone Service Group Unit Troop 1118. The state police were on hand to offer safety tips and helmet checks. BY…

  • Audience blasts mayor over 6-acre zoning

    Upper Freehold official BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Upper Freehold official ‘disgusted’ with Planning Board vote to increase lot size BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer The Upper Freehold Planning Board’s proposal to go to 6-acre zoning was a "premeditated sneak attack," an audience member said at the May 6 Township Committee meeting. Mayor John Mele, who is also…

  • Seven appointed to environmental committee

    BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Seven appointed to environmental committee BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — Former controversial Environmental Commission member Sue Kozel was not on the list for the newly created Environmental Advisory Committee at the May 6 Township Committee meeting. When Kozel asked Mayor John Mele why she was not named, Mele…