Category: Examiner News

  • Residents come to offer aid to immigrant’s family

    Widow in Mexicoexpresses gratitudefor donations By clare marie celanoStaff Writer Residents come to offer aid to immigrant’s family Widow in Mexico expresses gratitude for donations By clare marie celano Staff Writer The life of Fulgencio Sosa-Cortes, an immigrant to the United States who was fatally injured by a felled tree while working on a job…

  • Officials grilled on plans for Wa­ters property

    Neighbors ask township to restrict municipal uses on site targeted for school By alison granitoStaff Writer By alison granito Staff Writer Residents of one Millstone neighborhood want answers. Many of the neighbors who live on Waters Lane, Roberts Road, or in a nearby development on Wagner Farm Lane demanded information from elected officials at last…

  • Red Valley Road work to cost $228K

    By jane meggittStaff Writer By jane meggitt Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — Repairs to Red Valley Road will set the township back $228,539. The Township Committee awarded the contract to reconstruct the road to Meco Inc., Clarksburg, at last week’s committee meeting. Committeeman Charles Faber asked Municipal Clerk Barbara Bascom how long it would take…

  • Bike tour/walk to benefit seriously ill children

    "Wheel to Heal," a bike ride and walking tour to help raise funds for children diagnosed with cancer, will be held Sept. 21, beginning and ending at Michael J. Tighe Park, Georgia Road, Freehold Township. The bike tours will also travel through parts of Millstone and Roosevelt, depending on the tour. The event is organized…

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    VERONICA YANKOWSKI While watching the older children play their fall opener at Millstone’s Brandywine soccer fields, Susan Settlecowski, 3, can’t wait until she is old enough to join the team.

  • Evacuees still struggle with events of 9/11

    Experts believe many who need counseling have yet to come forward By gloria stravelliStaff Writer By gloria stravelli Staff Writer GLORIA STRAVELLI Paul Mazur of Matawan, Ed Matthews of Hazlet, and Richard Keller of Wall are members of a support group for individuals who survived the attacks of 9/11. They survived the World Trade Center…

  • Overall crime rate drops in local area

    Total crime in panhandle down 23 percent; violent crime up slightly By alison granitoStaff Writer Total crime in panhandle down 23 percent; violent crime up slightly By alison granito Staff Writer According to the statistics, the local area was a safer place to live last year than the year before. The numbers in the 2002…

  • 2nd annual Walk for Israel coming to Battlefield park

    2nd annual Walk for Israel coming to Battlefield park MANALAPAN — The second annual 5K Solidarity Walk for Israel will take place on Sept. 14 at Monmouth Battlefield State Park, Route 33, rain and shine. "The Jewish Community Center of Western Monmouth is proud to be sponsoring the second Walk for Israel," said Matt Benjamin,…

  • Official calls proposal ‘environmental insult’

    Owner wants to level land, remove soil to make way for 17 homes By jane meggittStaff Writer Official calls proposal ‘environmental insult’ By jane meggitt Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — An informal, conceptual review for a proposed development on Rues Road met with a decided lack of enthusiasm from the Planning Board. Richard Cottrell owns…