Category: Examiner News

  • Agri-science students get close look at field

    Visit from local llama andveterinarian brings careersto classroom BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer Visit from local llama and veterinarian brings careers to classroom BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Freehold Township High School Principal Anthony G. Procopio welcomes Worf to school for a lesson with agri-science students. Very few students in any school, anywhere, can boast that…

  • Upper Freehold: town in transition

    Lone farmeron committeesteps down BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Lone farmer on committee steps down JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Newcomers don’t understand the farming life, says Faber, who decided not to seek re-election BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer When Charles Faber‘s family moved to Upper Freehold from Robbinsville almost 60 years ago, the township was primarily a farming community.…

  • Freehold sticking with plan to close work zone

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Representatives from an area citizens group fighting for immigrants’ rights appeared at a Borough Council meeting in Freehold Borough for the second time on Dec. 15. This time Mayor Michael Wilson was in attendance, and as they say, "the gloves were off." Members of…

  • Command performance

    STEVEN M. BARON Courtney Lin Kaita, 13, a seventh-grader at the Manalapan Englishtown Middle School, performs with the Edison Symphony Orchestra at Middlesex County College, Edison, on Dec. 14.

  • Committee discusses soil removal, westerly bypass

    BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — A soil removal project off Sharon Station Road near Herbert Road is expected to start in February, design engineer Christopher Benoski said at the Dec. 18 Township Committee meeting. The property is located on the east side of the JCP&L easement off Sharon…

  • ID theft on the rise; can take years to clear up

    One scam used a jobfair to gain applicants BY DICK METZGARStaff Writer ID theft on the rise; can take years to clear up One scam used a job fair to gain applicants’ personal information BY DICK METZGAR Staff Writer Your good name can be besmirched, your bank account pilfered, and crimes committed in your name without your…

  • Owner of Magnolia Farm sells development rights

    BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Owner of Magnolia Farm sells development rights BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer PLUMSTED — The owner of the 30-acre Magnolia Farm on Magnolia Avenue has sold the development rights to the farm. Mayor Ronald Dancer said he and the other members of the Township Committee are pleased that another Plumsted farm…

  • Wanted: loving homes for really big dogs

    BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Wanted: loving homes for really big dogs BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE — They added up to 800 pounds of pooch. Four 200-pound mastiffs, rescued from a Middlesex County home where their owners had been evicted, were fortunate enough to find their way to Sharon Gaboff. "These dogs had not…

  • ‘Behind every jolly Santa is a tired Mrs. Claus’

    Authors give Mrs. Claus her fair share of creditin whimsical parody BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer ‘Behind every jolly Santa is a tired Mrs. Claus’ CHRIS KELLY staff Muffin Drake, of West Allenhurst, and her mother, Jeannie Schick-Jacobowitz, of West Long Branch, hope their new book, “A Bit of Applause for Mrs. Claus,” will become a Christmas…