Category: Examiner News

TOP PICK What lurks in the deep, sometimes dark rooms of unconscious minds, and how does one unlock the door? Rutgers Theater Company explores this hidden side in “The House of Influx,” running March 3-8. New Jersey residents involved in the production include cast members Rachel Cholowinski of Farmingdale and Brandon Fox of Wall, set…

Members of Greater Media Newspapers’ advertising, editorial, photography and production staffs scooped up 16 awards in the New Jersey Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. “We are blessed with an exceptional and dedicated staff,” Greater Media Newspapers General Manager and Publisher Ben Cannizzaro said. “I am extremely pleased with the well-deserved recognition from the New Jersey…

By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer Libraries throughout central New Jersey host book clubs and discussion groups to suit a broad range of patrons’ interests. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR If New Jersey were hit with a zombie apocalypse, the odds for survival would not be great, according to Tyler Rousseau, emergent technologies coordinator at the Monroe…

By MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer Millstone Township residents have approved the collection of $1.72 million in local taxes to support a $1.82 million budget for the Millstone Township Fire District in 2015. The annual fire district election was held on Feb. 21, and the tax levy to support the budget was approved in a vote…

By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer Ann Weiss, above, discusses the cache of photos she secured after she visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1986. She has sought to identify the people in the photos, which she believes were hidden by prisoners during the Holocaust. Ann Weiss was not, by her own admission, anyone special…

By TAYLOR M. LIER Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders recently passed a resolution that is expected to resolve problems involving three roads and three bridges in Upper Freehold Township. The freeholders previously authorized a contract on May 27, 2010, with Cherry, Weber & Associates, Freehold Township, to perform professional…

ALLENTOWN — The Allentown Future Farmers of America (FFA) Chapter and the Allentown FFA Alumni Affiliate of the National FFA Organization will host the eighth annual gift auction on March 28 at 6 p.m. at the Hope Firehouse, 82 Route 526, Allentown. The FFA provides many opportunities for agricultural science students to participate in activities…

ALLENTOWN – Fire services in Allentown will no longer be primarily provided by the Hope Fire Company of Upper Freehold Township, after a two-year shared services agreement with neighboring Hamilton Township went into effect earlier this year. The change, which was described in a resolution that was passed by the Borough Council on Dec. 17,…

The Freehold Soil Conservation District will provide free Plants for Pollinators in the Classroom resource kits to several teachers in Middlesex County and Monmouth County in early 2015. The Plants for Pollinators in the Classroom program is designed to help students discover the importance of native pollinators and to study the relationship between plants and…