Category: Examiner News

  • 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…

  • Foreclosure crisis hits Monmouth

    Data shows 41 local properties in pre-foreclosure process BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer The foreclosure crisis is hitting Monmouth County, with monthly foreclosure rates almost double what they were last year. According to the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office, the county had a total of 57 foreclosures in January 2007. One year later, the number of…

  • From Africa to Allentown

    Presbyterian Church hosts director of mission in Malawi BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Wellings Mwalabu, of Malawi, Africa, visited the Allentown Presbyterian Church for five days to talk about the church’s mission in the village of Sakata, Africa. ALLENTOWN — In the village of Sakata, residents don’t have planners or daily plans.…

  • U.S., state funds may pay to clean up brownfields

    Monmouth County officials want residents to know that federal and state money is available to towns grappling with how to clean up a hazardous materials discharge or revitalize a brownfields site, as well as money for homeowners who wish to dispose of underground storage tanks. “The availability of federal and state money to address local…