Category: Examiner News

  • Shahn mural draws Tokyo television to Roosevelt

    CorrespondentLights! Camera! Action! By clare m. masi Correspondent Lights! Camera! Action! Dale Weinbach, chief school administrator of the Roosevelt Public School, gives an interview to a Japanese television crew that came to the borough to produce a show about artist Ben Shahn and his historic Roosevelt mural. Are we in New York? Nope. Are we…

  • Initial efforts by Millstone’s watershed council honored

    Staff Writer By mark rosman MILLSTONE — The Monmouth County Water Resources Association has recognized the township and a municipal body for the work its members are doing to protect watersheds. At a luncheon held Oct. 13, Millstone Township and the Millstone Township Watershed Management and Preservation Council received the water resources association’s Myron LaVake…

  • Pursuit of land near lake still on agenda

    Staff Writer By mark rosman Pursuit of land near lake still on agenda Slowly but surely the Monmouth County Park System is carrying out its plan to purchase land at and around the Perrineville Lake in Millstone Township. With a goal of eventually purchasing a total of 525 acres in the area near Perrineville, Millstone,…

  • Bending over backwards to end hunger

    Allison Lucia, 10, of Allentown, loosens up before participating in Sunday’s Crop Walk to fight world hunger. Participants in the afternoon event strolled from the Hope Fire Company headquarters on Route 526, Upper Freehold, through Allentown and back to the firehouse. JERRY WOLKOWITZ

  • Spraying for West Nile requested Resident’s horse was

    Spraying for West Nile requested Resident’s horse was euthanized Sept. 23; tests revealed disease By Mark Rosman Staff Writer A Millstone Township resident whose horse died of West Nile virus is concerned that infected mosquitoes may still be on her property. Michelle Orlick of Gordon Road, whose 18-year-old gelding was euthanized on Sept. 23, expressed…

  • Marching against hunger

    Allentown police lead the way down Route 526 toward the borough during Sunday’s Crop walk to fight world hunger. The event began and ended at the Hope Fire Company, Upper Freehold. JERRY WOLKOWITZ

  • Water situation addressed

    Correspondent By clare m. masi MILLSTONE — Water routinely tested at the Millstone Township Elementary School has been found to have an increased level of bacteria. Superintendent of Schools Dr. William Setaro was notified of the test results on Oct. 19. He announced those results at Monday night’s meeting of the Board of Education and…

  • High flying fun

    An ultralight plane takes off from Reed’s Sod Farm, Allen-town, after a short stop on Saturday. MARIE ORTIZ

  • Medic!

    Medical personnel, also known as "butchers" during the Civil War, treat one of the wounded during a re-enactment of the War Between the States held at the Allentown Fall Harvest Festival on Oct. 14-15. MARIE ORTIZ