Category: Examiner News

  • Pianists sought for competitions

    The Young Pianist Competition of New Jersey has announced the schedule for its 19th annual Concerto, Ensemble (for one and two pianos) and Chamber Music competitions. The competition offers an opportunity to participate in the Festival “Musica in Laguna” (Venice, July 2009). A faculty and administrative affiliation with the festival offers workshops, competitions and recitals…

  • U.F. sides with public, nixes zoning change

    Highway development won’t be community commercial BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — Landowners along Route 537 whose zoning could change from Highway Development (HD) to Community Commercial (CC) protested at the Dec. 18 public hearing, and the governing body listened. The Township Committee voted unanimously against changing the zoning, which had been recommended…

  • Martial arts students put skills to good use

    MANALAPAN — On Dec. 10 more than 150 students convened at Klein’s Taekwondo Academy in Manalapan to participate in a special kick-a-thon that will benefit Enable NJ, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to helping handicapped individuals lead more independent lives. According to a press release, the kick-athon is just one of many events the…

  • Student focused on good in the world

    AHS junior serves community and his peers BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Mathew Goldberg sees benevolence everywhere and wishes others took more notice of the good that people do. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Above: Allentown High School junior Mathew Goldberg helps a group of students come up with a poem or skit about drunken…

  • Millstoners oppose town’s COAH plan

    Residents running out of time for another solution BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE — Residents at the Dec. 10 Planning Board meeting begged the board to postpone a decision on the township’s Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) plan, which must be submitted to the state by Dec. 31. The Planning Board acquiesced, and another…

  • A picture is worth … an $85 traffic fine

    Three New Jersey towns will have cameras detect cars that run a red light BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer Next year, drivers who run a red light in three New Jersey municipalities may find out later that they did not get away with it. That’s because cameras will soon be in place at several intersections,…

  • Sno-ball tourney slides into home

    Education foundation to host winter game Feb. 7 BY JENNIFER KOLHLHEPP Staff Writer ALLENTOWN — Community members should start doing their snow dances now for the winter white stuff to fall come Feb. 7. The Upper Freehold Regional Education Foundation’s Sno-ball Softball Tournament didn’t take place in the flakes last year, but with the Farmer’s…

  • Twp. unites to save trees and money

    Song-Wei Orchids donates evergreens to township park BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD UPPER FREEHOLD — Reed Park is now landscaped with 45 evergreen trees at a minimal cost to the township, thanks to a landowner’s donation and the work of township officials. Gary Liu, the general manager of Song-Wei Orchids, said his company…

  • Background check bill clears Senate

    Bill would expand criminal checks of school employees BY LAUREN MORTENSON Correspondent The New Jersey Senate has unanimously passed a bill that will, if it is eventually signed into law, revise the current background check requirements for all school employees who come in contact with students. Sponsored by Sens. Loretta Weinberg, Barbara Buono and Shirley…