Category: Examiner News

  • Millstone man named winner of restored ’47 motorcycle

    By dick metzgar FREEHOLD — A special treat for fans of vintage motorcycles will be in store for those who turn up for Kruise Nite at 6 p.m. Aug. 31. Thanks to Bill Bevan of Millstone Township, who is now an antique motorcycle collector, a restored 1947 Indian Chief — one of the classic American…

  • Center seeks rape care advocates

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The Women’s Center of Monmouth County’s Rape Care Program will be conducting training for new volunteer rape care advocates. The 54-hour training will be held at CentraState Medical Center on Sept. 9, 12, 16, 20, 23, 27, Oct. 3, 7, 10, 14, 18, 21 and 25. The program gives rape crisis advocates…

  • Officials offer little new info about fire

    By bob fleming Officials offer little new info about fire In the weeks following a suspicious house fire in Roosevelt, authorities have been unable to provide many details related to the ongoing investigation in the case. Monmouth County fire officials classified a house fire that occurred at 20 S. Rochdale Ave. in the early morning…

  • Attorneys wrangle over labor complaint in Allentown

    By Bob Fleming ALLENTOWN — Both lawyers handling an unfair labor practice complaint involving a suspended borough patrolman and municipal officials are embroiled in a scheduling controversy regarding a Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) hearing on the matter. The controversy stems from several postponed hearings before a PERC examiner assigned to hear an unfair labor…

  • Farmland ethics rules revised

    Gov. Christie Whitman hailed the support of new farmland ethics guidelines by the State Agriculture Development Com-mittee (SADC). The committee passed guidelines that will strengthen county-level preservation efforts by a 10-1 vote. The SADC also voted unanimously to expand its own ethics guidelines. "These new guidelines will preserve the integrity of a program that has…

  • Pa. man charged in wife’s murder

    MILLSTONE – Police have charged a Pennsylvania man with the murder of his wife at McDonald’s, Route 537. Police took Jeffrey E. Grant of Langhorne, Pa., into custody on Aug. 22, the morning after his wife died from stab wounds she allegedly received during a confrontation with her husband in the McDonald’s parking lot. State…

  • Teens recount moving trip to war-torn Bosnia

    By louis c. hochman Monmouth County teen-agers Lindsay Bonanno and Erika Porsche have always liked to help out, but this summer they really went the distance – thousands of miles. Bonanno, of Millstone Township, and Porsche, of Howell, spent two weeks on a goodwill trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia in July with the financial backing…

  • Deer Spotting

    Frozen for a moment in time, a deer is caught grazing late Monday morning in a field along Route 571, near Roosevelt.

  • Millstone warns motorists: Take it easy at intersection

    Millstone warns motorists: Take it easy at intersection By louis c. hochman MILLSTONE — The Department of Public Works is looking for proposals to make the intersection of Barc Lane and Millstone Road safer. Members of the Township Committee said they would instruct DPW administrators to seek estimates for repairs and improvements to be made…