Category: Examiner News

  • CentraState Medical Center initiates robotic surgery

    BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Dr. Troy Sukkarieh, MD (left, forefront) and his partner Dr. Alexander Kirshenbaum have brought robotic surgery to CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township, with the purchase of the da Vinci Surgical System. FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — A robot is now on call waiting to assist surgeons in the operating room at CentraState Medical…

  • Voters support Roosevelt Public School budget

    Average homeowner can expect to pay $4,350 to support spending plan BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Voters in the Roosevelt school election overwhelmingly supported the $1.4 million tax levy to support the 2010-11 school budget. While only 168 voters took to the polls April 20, twice as many cast ballots for the $2.5 million spending…

  • Event will remember ‘Operation Babylift’

    The New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation will host a screening, followed by a group discussion, of the 2009 award-winning film, “Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam” on April 24 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will celebrate the 35th anniversary of Operation Babylift. An honor guard procession will recognize those who…

  • Get counted, census forms at post office

    Enumerators will start visiting those who didn’t take survey on May 1 BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer The census forms may have gotten to Roosevelt later than any other New Jersey town, but they’re finally there. Roosevelt residents, who were not mailed census forms because the U.S. Census Bureau would not send them to post…

  • Science brings the story to life

    Clockwise from top: Madeline Aylward, 8, of Allentown helps Andrew Piccirillo tell a story using science during the Piccirillo Sciencetelling event held at the Allentown Public Library on April 15. Piccirillo generates suspense, anticipation and excitement among the library patrons with a story. Children serve as science experiment assistants. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Raising a child with autism

    Intervention, community and school resources prove key to child’s development BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Sometimes children are delayed in their developmental milestones, and pediatricians tell parents not to worry because they will eventually catch up. While that may be true for many children, one in 60 boys and one in 250 girls living in…

  • Central New Jersey water threatened as never before

    New report identifies water quality problems in Millstone and across the region BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer MILLSTONE — Water quality and quality of life go hand in hand. A new report about the local watershed shows both may be in danger if individuals don’t become more river friendly. Hundreds of thousands of people in…

  • BOE rejects MTEA offer to renegotiate

    Foley says proposed savings would put little toward long-term resolution of financial woes BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent The Board of Education has turned down the Millstone Township Education Association (MTEA)’s offer to change the terms of their recently negotiated contract settlement. MTEA leadership said that members voluntarily agreed to change the terms of the contract…

  • ATV club considered for Roosevelt residents

    Resident aims to deter illegal activities by volunteering to give them a safe, legal place to ride BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent ROOSEVELT — The illegal use of allterrain vehicles (ATVs) on borough property has been a recurring problem. One resident thinks the way to address it is for the borough to sponsor an ATV club…