Category: Examiner News
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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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More locals feel effects of economic slowdown
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Editor’s note: So many responses came in last week to a readers’ poll of how the current economic climate is affecting local families and businesses that the Examiner decided to run a second article on the issue this week. When it comes to the financial turmoil sweeping the globe, locals…
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Yang family expands on success of Mahzu
BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer It makes good business sense to expand on a successful concept and that’s just what the owners of two Mahzu Japanese restaurants are doing. With current locations in the Strathmore shopping center, Aberdeen, and the Mount’s Corner shopping center, Freehold Township, the Yang family is planning to open their third…
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Drive will help kids in Uganda
The American Red Cross-Jersey Coast Chapter and Sylvia’s Children, a Holmdel-based nonprofit charity organization that seeks to help African orphans, have teamed up to raise money this upcoming holiday season for the Mbiriizi Advanced Primary School in Masaka, Uganda, which consists of 1,000 children between the ages of 4 and 14, of which 267 youngsters…
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A farm of affordable housing
Proposal would fulfill COAH obligation, stop preservation BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Upper Freehold Township has unveiled two plans for fulfilling its Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) obligation. During a joint meeting of the Township Committee and Planning Board Oct. 14, the township’s COAH Planner Richard Coppola said Upper Freehold has to create 43 affordable…
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Pet license fees to rise
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer ALLENTOWN — Pet owners in the borough must make sure their dogs and cats are licensed or face stiff penalties if ordinances introduced at the Oct. 15 council meeting are approved later this month. According to the proposed ordinances, if a dog or cat is not licensed and registered by…
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First responders will get autism training
Members of the New Jersey Center for Outreach and Services for the Autism Community (COSAC) were present in Trenton as Gov. Jon Corzine signed a bill requiring the Department of Health and Senior Services and the Department of Human Services to develop an autism, intellectual and developmental disability course and curriculum for first responders, including…
