Category: Examiner News

  • Police investigating rash of Millstone burglaries

    BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — The New Jersey State Police have set up a special hotline number for information regarding recent burglaries in the township. At the March 3 Township Committee meeting, State Trooper Randy Pangborn reported that there have been 11 burglaries since the beginning of the year, even though troopers and detectives…

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    Kevin “Two Steps” O’Connell describes the New Jersey Lenni Lenape culture to fourth-graders during an assembly at Millstone Elementary School on Feb. 24. More photos, page 8. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Tentative school budget would raise taxes $384

    Millstone board applied for cap waiver to pay tuition due UFRSD BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent The Millstone Township Board of Education adopted a tentative budget for the 2010-11 school year Feb. 22 for the purpose of applying for a commissioner’s waiver from the Monmouth County superintendent of schools. Business Administrator Bernard Biesaida gave a presentation…

  • Storm-water issues topic of board hearing

    If OK’d, adjacent projects would share above-ground basin BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent The Millstone Township Zoning Board of Adjustment wants an applicant’s engineer to provide testimony at the next public hearing about the pros and cons of an underground versus above-ground storm-water management system. At the board’s Feb. 24 meeting, Greg Valesi, engineer for the…

  • Relatives tell of the tragedy of Alzheimer’s disease

    Share stories of mental decline of patients, heartache of caregivers BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Mildred “Muney” Davis is described by her son as a “real lady”: she taught her son to hold doors open and she never used four-letter words. She worked for her husband Lou’s business, volunteered her time for the Jewish Chronic…

  • Millstone updates rules for recycling

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE — New state and county rules concerning solid waste management means the updating of regulations for the township’s separation, storage, collection and recovery of designated recyclable materials. The Township Committee by a 4-0 vote on Feb. 17 adopted an ordinance stipulating the new regulations. Committeeman Gary Dorfman was absent.…

  • Services held for Cream Ridge woman killed in Rt. 524 accident

    UPPER FREEHOLD — Funeral services were held Monday at Allentown Presbyterian Church for Susan Pontoriero-Fiordland, 44, of Cream Ridge, who died from injuries sustained in a traffic accident at milepost 8.6 on Route 524 on Monday, Feb. 22. New Jersey State Police said Pontoriero- Fiordland was ejected from her 2001 Lincoln Navigator after it collided…

  • Toys from Vietnam era coming to ed. center

    HOLMDEL — The Vietnam Era Educational Center will host “Growing Up in the 1960s-’70s: A Flashback in Time.” The exhibit is a collection of more than 50 toys from the 1960s and 1970s from the Doll and Toy Museum in New York and will be on display through the end of August. According to a…

  • Friends recall mother of 4 as strong, caring woman

    Susan Pontoriero-Fiordland, 44, died from injuries in Feb. 22 traffic accident BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent UPPER FREEHOLD — Susan Pontoriero Fiordland, 44, a mother of four who was killed in a traffic accident Feb. 22 on Route 524, was remembered by her friends as a caring person who advocated for special needs children. One friend,…