Category: Examiner News
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Community forums on strategic plan announced
Monmouth County residents wishing to share their ideas about how the county can improve government services can do so by attending one of the community forums announced by the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders: • 6:30 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Monmouth County Library Eastern Branch, Shrewsbury. • 6:30 p.m. Nov. 17 at the Monmouth…
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U.F. village will likely be rezoned
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — Imlaystown residents are glad to hear that there will be no zoning changes in their village, but the township will rezone Hornerstown. At the Oct. 16 Township Committee meeting, township planner Charles Newcomb said that after the public voiced concerns at an earlier meeting, the implementation of…
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Retirees hooked on fishing
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Manny Luftglass and Ron Bern have been fishing together for 45 years. A few weeks ago, the friendly competitors were on a 12-foot fishing boat in the Spruce Run Reservoir, searching for 5-pound hybrid bass, which are known to fight like 12-pound largemouth bass. All of a sudden, one of…
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Jazz Month lineup slated
Free jazz concerts will heat up the headquarters location of the Monmouth County Library in November when the library presents Jazz Month 2008. The month-long event features four jazz concerts Sundays, Nov. 9 through Nov. 30 at 2 p.m. This year’s concert series will begin with The Inventions Trio on Nov. 9. The trio features…
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Special Olympics equestrian event held Oct. 25
Top left: Alex Turchi, 14, of Tenafly, won two first-place medals and two trophies at the Special Olympics equestrian event Oct. 25 at the Horse Park of New Jersey in Upper Freehold. Top right: Turchi, who rides with Silver Rock Farm, competes. Left: Sarah Redding, 14, of Freehold Township, who rides at Special Strides Therapeutic…
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Rural towns stave off State Police charges
Proposed costs deemed unconstitutional BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Residents of rural municipalities who rely on the New Jersey State Police for law enforcement will not have to pay additional taxes to keep those services. Locally, Upper Freehold, Millstone and Roosevelt depend on State Police patrols. On Oct. 23, the state’s Council on Local Mandates…
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Project EAT helps fill empty shelves of food pantries
County program matches donors with food distributors BY LAYLI WHYTE Correspondent Did everyone in Monmouth County eat today? Being able to answer yes to that question is the mission of Project EAT (Everyone Ate Today), a program through the Monmouth County Division of Social Services that partners groups that collect food for donation with local…
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War peace treaty signing at Walnford
The public is invited to learn about the details of early American military life from a regiment of uniformed soldiers in George Washington’s army at Historic Walnford. A group of Revolutionary War re-enactors will celebrate the November 1783 announcement of the signing of the final peace treaty by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams at Crosswicks…
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‘Vex’ing and proud
AHS graduate starts clothing company BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Above: A.J. Wescott, of Millstone, talks about his concepts for Vex, his independent apparel company. Left: Wescott created a comic book character based on himself that evolves as he does. A.J. Wescott has a slew of impish creatures at the ready…
