Category: Examiner News

  • Crime figures show drop throughout Garden State

    Gov. Christie Whitman reported that overall crime in New Jersey dropped 6 percent in 1999, continuing a four-year downward trend of safer streets, neighborhoods and municipalities. Additionally, the violent crime categories of murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault dropped for the sixth consecutive year, with the number of murders at the lowest level since 1967,…

  • Allentown all tied up in traffic

    Staff Writer By mark rosman JERRY WOLKOWITZ It’s a familiar scene on weekday mornings in the borough of Allentown: Traffic backed up as far as the eye can see on High Street (looking back toward the Upper Freehold Regional School District complex) at its intersection with Main Street. Traffic tie-ups that have been a daily…

  • Horse Show

    Amanda Wade of Maine and her horse, Summertime, clear a rail as they compete in the 2000 National Championship Standardbred Horse Show, Sept. 24 at the Horse Park of New Jersey, Upper Freehold Township. The show was presented by the Standardbred Pleasure Horse Organization of New Jersey and Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association of New…

  • County coalition awards grants to continue fight against tobacco

    County coalition awards grants to continue fight against tobacco The Monmouth County Commu-nities Against Tobacco Coalition (CAT) has announced the recipients of 16 mini-grants totaling $35,700. The grants were awarded to 16 groups throughout the county and ranged from $500 to $5,000. The programs cover all age groups. Earlier this year, Freeholder Amy H. Handlin,…

  • Back to school

    In visits that put them in touch with the state’s future leaders, New Jersey legislators went "back to school" on Sept. 15. Here, Assemblyman Joseph R Malone III (R-30) visits the Roosevelt Public School to discuss state government with fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders. JERRY WOLKOWITZ

  • Affordable housing obligation shifted to Asbury Park

    By louis c. hochman Staff Writer Asbury Park will take on about half of Millstone Township’s affordable housing obligation in a near $1 million deal. Millstone and Asbury Park officials have agreed on a regional contribution agreement under which Millstone will transfer responsibility for 46 of the affordable housing units it is obligated to build…

  • Judicial Watch chair to speak

    Judicial Watch chair to speak Larry Klayman, Judicial Watch chairman and founder, will be the keynote speaker at the eighth annual dinner of the New Jersey Conservative Party, to be held on Oct. 12 at the Battleground Country Club, Manalapan. According to a news release, in 1994, Klayman founded Judicial Watch, a non-partisan, nonprofit conservative…

  • Add color to your life with a visit to Oakland St. Gallery

    Add color to your life with a visit to Oakland St. Gallery photos by MARIE ORTiZ Paul Briskey By linda denicola Staff Writer Two area artists, Norman Perlmutter and Paul Briskey, will show their colorful paintings at the Oakland Street Gallery’s Green Apple Studios in Red Bank. The exhibit, called "Perspectives in Color," will run…

  • Al

    lentown labor complaint hearing scheduled for Oct. 4 By Bob Fleming Staff Writer ALLENTOWN — An unfair labor practice complaint filed by a suspended Allentown patrolman against borough officials will be heard by a state Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) examiner early next month. According to W. Reed Gusciora, of Lawrenceville, the attorney representing suspended…