Category: Examiner News
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Tribute to Holocaust survivors at library
The Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Center at Brookdale Community College will present a program on its “Tribute to the Survivors in Our Community” at 2 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan. The tribute, designed to preserve the survivors’ past, and to recognize their resolve as they…
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Two charged with criminal restraint
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE — What was reported as a kidnapping, which the complainant said began in Blackwood in Camden County and ended at the Millstone Wawa, has resulted in charges filed against two people. New Jersey State Police Detective Michael Rosica said that Douglas Verchlende, 26, Bradley Beach, and Evona Barnes, 21,…
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One voice, one hope, one song for the world
Millstone musician’s song heard around the globe BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer MILLSTONE — Mitchell Jay wrote “One Song” for the whole world to sing. A musician for over 40 years, Jay, an accomplished songwriter and member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), always wanted to write a song with a…
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Fire at Allentown High School
Senior cafeteria to remain closed until next week Jennifer Kohlhepp Fire at Allentown High By Jennifer Kohlhepp Staff Writer A fire broke out in a kitchen at Allentown High School after school let out on Oct. 7. Vice Principal Constance Embley reported that faulty equipment in the senior cafeteria both started the fire and kept…
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Riding High Farm celebrates 30 years
Beef and Beer’ fundraiser hosted in therapeutic riding center’s honor Oct. 16 BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer It’s been 30 years since a Brooklyn couple and their family moved to Upper Freehold and started a horseback-riding center for people with disabilities. JEFF GRANIT staff Erin Kelly, 10, of Allentown, demonstrates good balance as she rides…
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Most NJASK test scores improving
Millstone will have to refocus elementary curriculum BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Millstone Township School District’s director of curriculum and instruction said the district has bragging rights to last school year’s state test results. During a presentation at the Sept. 28 Board of Education meeting, Laura Vetere, curriculum and instruction director, said 59 students in…
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Join SBOANJ to help protect standardbreds
The 2009 Annual Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association of New Jersey (SBOANJ) membership and United States Trotting Association (USTA) District 12 meeting will be 10 a.m. Oct. 19 at the Holiday Inn in East Windsor. More details are posted at www.sboanj.com.
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Female jockey making great strides
Millstone resident one of four women racing at Monmouth Park BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Riding racehorses is an exciting and dangerous game, with few female players. Jockey Deirdre Panas walks her Millstone farm with That’s A No No, a horse she raced to win at New York’s Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course and…
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Protector of America’s wilds
Conservation photographer from Millstone creates book of National Park images BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Millstone’s landscape inspired native Ian Shive to venture into the American backcountry and start shooting to defend the wilderness. Ian Shive, a Millstone native and conservationist photographer, recently published a book called “The National Parks: Our American Landscape.” At 31…
