Category: Examiner News

  • District’s ’01 standardized math scores a mixed bag

    Staff Writer By ruth calia stives MILLSTONE — Mary Anne Donahue, assistant superintendent of schools in Millstone, has released the district’s test scores on state and national standardized tests, which were administered in the spring of 2001. According to Donahue, "Our students have made significant gains in the last three years." At the Sept. 10…

  • Millstone tract to be added to Assunpink Greens Acres in the process of acquiring 65-acre Suszka tract

    Staff Writer By linda denicola Millstone tract to be added to Assunpink Greens Acres in the process of acquiring 65-acre Suszka tract The state Department of Environmental Protec-tion’s Green Acres program is in the process of acquiring another piece of land that will be added to the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area. The Suszka tract, located…

  • Council rejects offer to buy controversial parcel Smith offered $5,000, plus legal fees, survey cost to council

    Staff Writer By linda denicola Council rejects offer to buy controversial parcel Smith offered $5,000, plus legal fees, survey cost to council ALLENTOWN — The ongoing saga of the snow fence separating Stephanie Smith’s Main Street property from Heritage Park continues with no resolution in sight. Near the end of August, the mayor and Borough…

  • Forensic dentist recalls ground-zero experience Millstone man assisted two weeks with massive identification effort

    Correspondent By jane meggitt Forensic dentist recalls ground-zero experience Millstone man assisted two weeks with massive identification effort JERRY WOLKOWITZ Dr. Stuart E. Alexander talks about his work at ground zero in lower Manhattan. Stuart E. Alexander, Mill-stone, is a dentist with a practice in Cranbury. He also volunteers as a forensic dentist with the…

  • State police coverage reviewed

    Correspondent By jane meggitt State police coverage reviewed UPPER FREEHOLD — The new state commander of the Hightstown State Police Barracks learned about some of the township’s unique problems at last week’s committee meeting. Sgt. 1st Class Ann Marie Grant said she’d been informed that Upper Freehold has a good relationship with the state police…

  • Volunteers sought for response team Group focuses on bioterrorism, weapons of mass destruction

    Staff Writer By linda denicola Volunteers sought for response team Group focuses on bioterrorism, weapons of mass destruction The Monmouth County Health Department’s Hazardous Material Response Team decontaminated about 1,000 people that terror-filled Tuesday that turned the World Trade Center into another Pompeii. The frightened evacuees came in from downtown New York by ferries to…

  • No U.S. flags for sale, just craft your own

    No U.S. flags for sale, just craft your own Millstone resident Nicole Wisniewski and her boyfriend Kelly Spence decided to make their own flag when they couldn’t buy one anywhere. By ruth calia stives Staff Writer MILLSTONE — Township resident Nicole Wisniewski is a third-year student of floriculture at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, Pa.…

  • Voters approve new fire truck by 76-26 margin

    Staff Writer By linda denicola MILLSTONE — Residents voted to approve the purchase of a new fire engine on Saturday, during a special vote. Out of the 102 residents who turned out to vote, 76 voted for the purchase and 26 against it. The new truck will be multifeatured with expanded capabilities and replaces a…

  • Coordinator explains U.F. emergency plan

    Coordinator explains U.F. emergency plan Township is in good hands, says William Wentzien By jane meggitt Correspondent UPPER FREEHOLD — More than lives were shattered that Tuesday in New York City, Washington, D.C., and the Pennsylvania countryside. The sense of security that modern Americans regarded as an inalienable right is gone as well. In any…