Category: Examiner News
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Best of the best 4-H equestrians compete
Horse Park hosts 284 young riders from around state BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Only the cream of the crop of 4-H equestrians rises to the club’s annual state championship show. Judges Coeli Netsky (l) and Marsha Montgomery make their way out of the ring as Lamont gaits by during the N.J. State 4-H Championship…
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Car crash injures driver
Millstone Township Fire Department and First Aid Squad members tend to the driver of a car that crashed into a tree along Prodelin Way on Aug. 23. MILLSTONE — A car struck a tree along Prodelin Way on Aug. 23. The township’s fire department and first aid squad were dispatched to the area of 78…
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Deer hunting season begins on Sept. 12
Guidelines issued for this year’s deer-management program BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE — Deer hunting season will commence next month. Hunters will not be permitted to bowhunt on Millstone Township municipal property this year. In July, the Township Committee voted 2-1 to reject a resolution that would have designated specific municipally owned land to…
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State police ask residents to lock up
Poor economy has crimes of opportunity on the rise BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE — A recent spate of car burglaries may have been avoided had residents simply locked their vehicles. At the Aug. 19 Township Committee meeting, New Jersey State Police trooper Ryan Barclay of the Hamilton Barracks said that detectives are aggressively…
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Millstone racer raises dust at motocross mecca
Jesse Pierce wins class at national championship BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Millstone’s Jesse Pierce is driven to win. The 15-year-old Allentown High School sophomore competes in motocross at tracks in various states nearly every weekend from March to November. He has won several races in the last seven years, and recently returned from the…
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Police to more closely monitor mining traffic
Residents complain about trucks illegally idling and driving on residential roads BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE — The mayor has asked the New Jersey State Police to monitor truck traffic in the township more closely. At the Aug. 19 Township Committee meeting, Mayor Nancy Grbelja told state trooper Ryan Barclay of the Hamilton Barracks…
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Roosevelt featured in new exhibit
Explore Roosevelt’s past through photography, oral history, lecture, and documentary at the Monmouth County Library this fall. The exhibit “Monmouth County in the Great Depression,” on view in the Manalapan library for the month of October, will feature information about Roosevelt when it was known as Jersey Homesteads, as well as S.S. Morro Castle. Besides…
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County info officers recognized nationally
The Monmouth County Department of Public Information is the recipient of two national awards from the National Association of County Information Officers (NACIO), an arm of the National Association of Counties (NACo). In addition, public information officer Laura Kirkpatrick has been elected to serve on the board of the National Association of Government Communicators. “This…
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U.F. to borrow money for road improvements
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — Ellisdale Road may be repaved if a $640,000 bond ordinance introduced at the Aug. 13 Township Committee meeting is approved. The public hearing on the bond ordinance is scheduled for the Sept. 3 meeting. Chief Financial Officer Dianne Kelly said she expects that the township will receive…
