Category: Examiner News

  • Arrested immigrants sue Wal-Mart, others

    Defendants include contractor co. owned by Millstone residentStaff Writers Arrested immigrants sue Wal-Mart, others Defendants include contractor co. owned by Millstone resident BY SANDI CARPELLO & JENNIFER DOME Staff Writers Eunice Gomez does not want to go home. Despite her inability to find work, the constant struggle to make her $2,000-a-month rent, being forced to eat…

  • Historical society still fighting to save village

    Imlaystown nominatedfor list of 10 mostendangered sites BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Imlaystown nominated for list of 10 most endangered sites BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer VERONICA YANKOWSKI staff This house is one of the abandoned homes in Imlaystown. UPPER FREEHOLD — Before the United States of America was founded and gentlemen such as George Washington,…

  • Elks serve up food and drug awareness

    Elks serve up food and drug awareness PHOTOS BY MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Volunteers Al Morey and Deana Lindsey prepare food for the Millstone Elks Lodge’s Friday night dinner Nov. 14. Proceeds from dinners fund drug education programs at h.s. BY JENNIFER DOME Staff Writer MILLSTONE — Township residents may have heard that the Elks Lodge…

  • Burial ground lot will be given to township

    BY JENNIFER DOMEStaff Writer BY JENNIFER DOME Staff Writer MILLSTONE — The historical headstones of the Cook family will no longer be included on a lot in the Riverbrook Cos.’ new development. Attorney Kenneth Pape told township Planning Board members that the Cook family burial ground, located near Conover Road, will be sectioned off from…

  • State taps fort for role in homeland security

    Announcement made as congressmen, governor tour military facility BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer In what may be a boost for the Army’s Communications-Electronics Command, Gov. James E. McGreevey designated Fort Monmouth as New Jersey’s center for homeland defense technology and security readiness. The governor visited Fort Monmouth last week and, accompanied…

  • Salvation Army, food banks face shortages

    BY SANDI CARPELLOStaff Writer BY SANDI CARPELLO Staff Writer RED BANK –– Three-hundred turkeys, 200 Elmos and a partridge in a pear tree. As the giving season approaches, the Red Bank Salvation Army has found itself with more and more mouths to feed and more working class families unable to bear the price tags of…

  • Regional Board of Education gets to work

    Grants, job descriptions, construction reviewed by board membersBY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer by board members BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — Excellence in teaching grants and a new job description for an instructional specialist were among the business conducted by the Allentown-Upper Freehold Board of Education last Wednesday. Director of Curriculum Maybeth Conway said…

  • U.F. committee adjusts zoning change at meeting

    Resident comments on park; officials discuss signs, computer upgrade BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Resident comments on park; officials discuss signs, computer upgrade BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — A change in the newly adopted zoning ordinance was among the business conducted by the Township Committee at the Nov. 6 public meeting. The Township…

  • Officials weigh in on fate of commission

    Environmental Commix member says conflicts of interest exist BY JANE MEGGITT and JENNIFER DOMEStaff Writers BY JANE MEGGITT and JENNIFER DOME Staff Writers UPPER FREEHOLD — After a committeeman questioned whether a professional environmental engineer would serve the township better than the existing Environmental Commission, various township officials lent their voices to the controversy. According…