Category: Examiner News
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Officials say township will fill environmental vacancies
Commission to hold first meeting of year on Sept. 9 By jane meggittStaff Writer Commission to hold first meeting of year on Sept. 9 By jane meggitt Staff Writer Upper Freehold officials addressed the controversy surrounding the Environ-mental Commission last week. Mayor David Horsnall announced at the Aug. 21 Township Committee meeting that he had…
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Memoria Project rejects site offered by county
Freeholder says another county facility could accommodate work By gloria stravelliStaff Writer By gloria stravelli Staff Writer The Memoria Project Inc. has decided against taking the county up on its offer to locate the Sept. 11 memorial at the Mount Mitchill Overlook in Atlantic Highlands. After revisiting the site the county offered recently, the project’s…
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Monmouth County looks to increase open space tax
By elaine van develdeStaff Writer By elaine van develde Staff Writer County officials say they want to give more green to residents, so they’re asking to increase the open space fund. At the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders’ Aug. 22 meeting, a resolution was passed to ask voters in November’s general election if they want…
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Millstone mines gain approval to operate two more years
Company officialssay mines are almost tapped out By alison granitoStaff Writer Company officials say mines are almost tapped out By alison granito Staff Writer MILLSTONE — Two of the five active mines in the township came before the Township Committee last week to renew the permits that allow them to operate. The application by Raymond…
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VERONICA YANKOWSKI Austin Cheesman waits for instructions from his coach during an Allentown Redbirds Pop Warner preseason football practice at Allentown High School on Friday.
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Township partners with state to purchase tract
By alison granitoStaff Writer By alison granito Staff Writer MILLSTONE — In partnership with the state, the township is working to purchase the development rights to property deemed desirable for acquisition by the Open Space and Farmland Preservation Council. The Township Committee passed an ordinance approving the release of $255,307 in open space funds to…
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Book prepares readers for the coming holidays
By sandi carpelloStaff Writer Book prepares readers for the coming holidays By sandi carpello Staff Writer JERRY WOLKOWITZ Rabbi Benjamin Levy of the Monroe Jewish Center shakes hands with a young reader during a recent book signing at Border’s in East Brunswick. MONROE — With the Jewish New Year about a week away, Monroe resident…
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Residents say new bus stop poses safety risk
Board member says school officials will address the problem By alison granitoStaff Writer By alison granito Staff Writer MILLSTONE — According to the residents of the Whispering Springs development, the new bus stop that school officials have designated for their neighborhood is not a safe place for children to wait. A contingent of parents from…
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Large crowd attends warehouse meeting
No further meetings planned between U.F. residents, developer By jane meggitt Staff Writer Despite some changes to the plan to build 5.5 million square feet of warehouse space along the Upper Freehold border, members of Central Jersey Residents Against Matrix (CJRAM) remain wary. Almost 100 people, many of them residents of Upper Freehold and Allentown,…
