Category: Examiner News

  • ‘Homeward Bound’: 12 months of heartwarming stories

    MCSPCA calendar raises funds for shelter BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer Kim Ruane’s 2-year-old purebred Maltese, Lilly, is the proverbial lucky dog. She was once confined to a cage in a home that housed 82 other animals, her white coat discolored and matted to her skin as a result of being forced to live in…

  • Millstone planners OK special meeting for solar farm project

    Error in published notice put project at risk to meet deadline for federal funds BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — Enough members of the Planning Board to ensure a quorum agreed to attend a special meeting Dec. 22 so that the developer of a solar energy farm can have the application for preliminary and final…

  • Farm day worker charged with sexual assault of child

    BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent UPPER FREEHOLD — A 32-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala who worked at a local farm is in the Monmouth County Correctional Institution in Freehold Township, charged with allegedly raping a girl under 10 years of age. According to Detective Stephen Urbanski of the New Jersey State Police, Elias Santos, who admitted…

  • Gov. vetoes establishment of full racing schedule for two tracks

    Gov. Chris Christie has vetoed the New Jersey Racing Commission’s establishment of a full standardbred and thoroughbred racing schedule for Monmouth Park and the Meadowlands, as the administration continues its review of recommendations to end annual taxpayer subsidies for the horse racing industry in an attempt to make the industry self-sustaining. According to a press…

  • Christmas show to raise funds for food pantry and veterans

    The Company of Music, Theatre and Dance and its performance workshop youth ensemble will bring a taste of Broadway to the Jersey Shore with its “Christmas and New Year’s Spectacular,” created and directed by Alison Gertner Mann, to be performed Dec. 18-19 at 6:30 p.m. at the Millstone Performing Arts Center, Dawson Court, Millstone Township,…

  • Millstone softball player to join Hawks

    MILLSTONE — Eve Clausen has signed a letter of intent to play softball for the University of Hartford. The Peddie School student and five other players will join the Hawks’ roster for the 2012 season as first-year softball coach Diana Consolmagno’s first-ever recruiting class, according to a press release from University of HartfordAthletics. “We are…

  • Feds seize domain names in counterfeit goods bust

    Seizure orders were executed against 82 domain names of commercial Internet websites engaged in the alleged illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works as part of Operation in Our Sites v. 2.0, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Director John Morton of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

  • Pope names new bishop for Diocese of Trenton

    Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Bishop John M. Smith as head of the Diocese of Trenton, it was announced on Dec. 1 in the Vatican. Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., who was named coadjutor bishop six months earlier by Pope Benedict, now succeeds to the diocesan see as the 10th Bishop of…

  • Put On A Show tabbed NJSS Horse of the Year

    Put On A Show, who won the $200,000 NJSS Championship Final and $175,000 Thomas N. D’Altrui Miss New Jersey Pace at The Meadowlands, has been selected as the overall New Jersey Sire Stakes Horse of the Year for 2010. The award, which is voted annually by the Sire Stakes board of trustees, is based only…