Category: Examiner News

  • Chaplain helps heal wounded soldiers

    PHOTO COURTESY OF BRIAN FERGUSON New Jersey Air National Guard Lt. Col. Dean E. Wentzien is a chaplain deployed to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany where he helps care for wounded service members serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. UPPER FREEHOLD — Caring for wounded or ill military men and women is top priority for…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Stabilization grants for arts available

    TRENTON — The New Jersey State Council on the Arts has New Jersey Cultural Trust grants available to support arts organizations in 2009-10. Grants are expected to range between $10,000 and $40,000 and do not require a match. The types of projects eligible for funding range widely and can include establishing a working capital or…

  • Schools to get energy education

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE — The school district hopes to reap $1.9 million in energy savings through an alliance with Texas-based Energy Education, Inc. At the Oct. 13 Board of Education meeting, the board unanimously approved a contract with Energy Education that will go into effect Nov. 1, according to Business Administrator Bernard…