Category: Examiner News
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Environmentalist enlists help of AHS students
Group to document By alison granitoStaff Writer Group to document ‘vanishing vistas’ around Upper Freehold By alison granito Staff Writer PHOTOS COURTESY OF SUE KOZEL Allentown High School students Brian Todd and Sarah Bloom Leeds look over a map with Bill Search at his farm on Holmes Mill Road. UPPER FREEHOLD — It may be…
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‘Pay-to-play’ prohibitions
now law in Freehold Twp. By linda denicola Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — A revision to the township’s personnel ordinance that sets the maximum amounts that professional business entities can contribute politically and places new restrictions on the awarding of professional contracts has been adopted by the Township Committee. The relationship of political contributions and…
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Gov. McGreevey pushes reading at local school
Roosevelt 2nd-grader honored for naming book-club mascot By linda denicolaStaff Writer By linda denicola Staff Writer JEFF GRANIT Gov. James E. McGreevey stressed the importance of reading to Roosevelt public school students during a recent visit to the school to promote his book club. ROOSEVELT — Gov. James E. McGreevey came to the borough last…
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Planners approve nine homes for owner
Correspondent By tara petersen MILLSTONE — Landowners are continuing to submit building applications as the vote for a new master plan nears. Bob Horzepa received preliminary approval on his application to subdivide his lot "consistent with R-130 zone requirements" at the May 14 Planning Board meeting. The plan calls for the re-zoning of many lots…
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CHRIS KELLY Cream Ridge resident Chelsea Horshe (l), 12, and Clarksburg resident Danielle Harrison, 13, enjoy a little kayaking at the Millstone Foundation for Educational Excellence’s Family Fun Day at Black Bear Day Camp, Millstone, Sunday.
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Support helps local man pull through transplant
By jane meggittStaff Writer By jane meggitt Staff Writer VERONICA YANKOWSKI Allentown Caging employee Adam Hurley, New Egypt, recently underwent a liver transplant. UPPER FREEHOLD — At the age of 31, he was told he had two weeks to live. Thanks to the efforts of his employers and co-workers, his former wife, and top-notch doctors,…
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Master plan on Monday’s town docket
By alison granitoStaff Writer By alison granito Staff Writer MILLSTONE — Officials are expected to unveil "Plan B" soon. The Township Committee is scheduled to hold a special meeting to address amendments to a land use ordinance which determines the community’s zoning Monday at 8 p.m. in the elementary school gymnasium. Although the committee recently…
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ALLENTOWN — This year, the borough’s Memorial Day parade, to be held May 26, will feature more than 50 units, including seven bands. The grand marshal leading the parade will be Allentown’s native daughter, Mary Theoharis Clark. In the late 1800s, the Allentown Methodist Church moved, and their building was converted to a double house,…
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Millstone jazz band to perform at Family Fun Day
VERONICA YANKOWSKI Millstone Middle School student Brenden Benedict plays the trumpet at a recent rehearsal of the school’s jazz ensemble. The group will perform at Family Fun Day Sunday. The Millstone Middle School Jazz Ensemble will be performing at the outdoor Family Fun Day event, hosted by the Millstone Township Foundation for Educational Excellence (MTFEE)…
