Category: Examiner News

  • Tail-wagging tutor helps students learn to read

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Above: Newell Elementary School third-grader Garrett Baldwin reads “A Tiger for Toby” to Deja, a toy poodle that teacher Amanda Conn-Levin had trained and certified as a therapy dog to assist students with learning how to read aloud comfortably. Left: Third-grader Kent Emley reads “Clifford’s Family” to Deja. A toy…

  • Millstone Board of Education president calls for civility

    2011-12 budget presentation at Jan. 24 board meeting BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — Referring to the recent Tucson, Ariz., shooting tragedy, Board of Education President Kevin Mc- Govern discussed the importance of civility in public discourse at the Jan. 10 meeting. He also mentioned the recent incident in Panama City, Fla., when a man…

  • Money available for wetlands restoration

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) is offering money to restore and protect wetlands through the Wetland Reserve Program. The program offers very competitive financial payments to landowners who voluntarily place a conservation easement on previously altered wetlands and agree to a restoration plan completely funded by the NRCS. Eligible for…

  • Law lays out rules to combat bullying

    The 12th District legislators reacted positively this week to the news that Gov. Chris Christie had signed into law the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act, designed to better prepare schools to deal with the act of bullying and its consequences. Sen. Jennifer Beck and Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande (both RMonmouth and Mercer) were co-sponsors of the…

  • Leading the cheer — then and now

    Millstone coach compares today’s cheerleading to her teenage experience with Eagles BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Sharon Peake (left, in white) served as co-captain of the 1982 Millstone School cheerleading squad that rooted for the basketball team. The day that Sharon Peake moved back to Millstone, she had two things on her mind: the moving…

  • Fitness programs offered at libraries

    The Monmouth County Library is offering fitness programs in January to help those individuals who want to stick to their new year’s resolutions of getting into shape. The following programs are being offered locally: Basic yoga classes for beginners will begin on Jan. 26 at 6:30 p.m. at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes…

  • Greater Media Newspapers pleased to be part of green partnership

    North Jersey Media Group to add 20,400-panel solar unit to Rockaway printing plant North Jersey Media Group (NJMG), the owner of the printing facility used by Greater Media Newspapers’ 10 weekly publications, has announced a heightened commitment to green energy with the installation this year of a 20,400-panel solar facility at its printing and packaging…

  • ‘The Beethoven Connection’ to be presented in Roosevelt

    BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent ROOSEVELT — The music of Ludwig van Beethoven, his teachers and his students will fill Borough Hall Feb. 12. Roosevelt’s Alan Mallach has partnered with the Roosevelt Arts Project to present a solo piano recital with commentary titled “The Beethoven Connection” starting at 8 p.m. The concert will feature the music…

  • Call for entries for second RE:IMAGE Film Festival

    A call for entries is under way for the Diocese of Trenton’s 2011 diocesan RE:IMAGE Film Festival, which will take place April 16 in the historic Algonquin Arts Theatre in Manasquan. The festival, inspired by Pope Benedict XVI’s 2009 exhortation to those with creative talent to participate in renewing “the church’s friendship with the arts,”…