Category: Examiner News

  • Little League thanks the community behind key plays and clutch hitting

    Yankees and Blue Jays come out on top after playoffs BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer The Millstone-Roosevelt Little League Yankees team celebrates winning the minor division championship title on June 11. The team wanted to recognize player Liam Murphy, who does not appear in the photo. MILLSTONE — As the season comes to a close,…

  • Food, entertainment, rides add spice to Italian festival

    BY NATHAN ROSMAN Correspondent On the nights of July 13-16 the fifth annual ItalianAmerican Festival will be held at Freehold Raceway, Route 33, Freehold. Attractions at the event will include food vendors, rides, games and entertainment. The festival schedule includes:  July 13: Pay one price for unlimited rides. Appearances by “Funktion” dance studio and…

  • Roosevelt starts planning for its 75th anniversary

    BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent ROOSEVELT — Next year marks the 75th anniversary of Roosevelt’s founding. Preliminary plans to mark the event were discussed at the June 27 Borough Council meeting. Mike Hamilton, former mayor and member of the town’s Fourth of July Committee, said that residents of Arthurdale, W.Va., the first planned community of President…

  • Casino night and auction aid LADACIN

    LADACIN Network held its Casino Night and Gift Auction at Eagle Oaks Golf and Country Club, Farmingdale, on June 10. The event supported LADACIN’s educational, therapeutic, social, residential and support services that benefit more than 2,600 infants, children and adults with cerebral palsy and other multiple physical and developmental disabilities living in Monmouth and Ocean…

  • UFRSD won’t help state pilot new teacher-evaluation system

    Assistant superintendent says district developed effective system three years ago BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer ALLENTOWN — The Upper Freehold Regional School District will not take part in the state’s teacher-evaluation pilot program. The Christie administration announced a $1.1 million grant to encourage school districts to participate in the program. The Excellent Educators for New…

  • Power of Pink Luncheon to aid patient program

    The Women’s Council for the Leon Hess Cancer Center at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, will host this year’s annual Power of Pink Luncheon, an event to benefit the Leon Hess Cancer Center at Monmouth Medical Center, on July 21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Sandy Hook. This year, the Women’s Council chose…

  • DEP holds photo contest for Green Acres properties

    The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has launched a photo contest in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the signing of the first Green Acres Bond Act by Gov. Robert B. Meyner. Since that first bond referendum was signed on June 3, 1961, voters have approved every bond act put before them, resulting in the…

  • Scheuerman leads East to Sunshine Classic win

    BYWAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent ALLENTOWN — Ross Scheuerman ended his high school football career at Allentown fittingly with the best players in the western part of the state when he earned the Most Outstanding Back award in the 15th annual Sunshine Classic All-Star game at The College of New Jersey on June 30. Scheuerman, embarking next…

  • Local students to lead teen safe driving summit

    Six members of Freehold Township High School’s Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) chapter will help lead New Jersey’s first statewide, peer-to-peer Teen Safe Driving Summit, GDL4U: Good Driving for Life, on July 15 at Rutgers University’s Busch Campus in Piscataway. Designed to help teens stay safe behind the wheel, the summit is sponsored by the…