Category: Examiner News
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Race for the Cure at Six Flags Great Adventure Oct. 5
The 15th annual Komen Central and South Jersey Race for the Cure will be held at the Six Flags Great Adventure theme park, Route 537, Jackson, on Oct. 5. The event will include a U.S. Track and Field certified women’s and men’s 5-kilometer run, a co-ed 2.5-mile walk and a coed 1-mile walk. There will…
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Harnessing the Web to help horses in need
James Guagliardo is a big fan of harness racing. His involvement with racing didn’t start the usual way, working up from a groom to trainer, driver and then owner. The Pittston, Pa., resident got into racing the opposite way, starting as an owner and then segueing into driving and training. But his love for harness…
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Millstone Township preserves another farm
Township now has 1,026 acres of preserved farmland MILLSTONE — Development will never ruin the scenic vista along Battleground Road. The 166-acre Hom vegetable farm along that road has been permanently preserved. The Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders presented the township with a symbolic $2.3 million reimbursement check for the final share of the…
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U.F. still considering dog license fee increase
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — Township officialswant the Board of Health to raise dog license fees even though the board recently decided twice against doing so. The township currently charges $7.50 to license a spayed/neutered animal. Raising the licensing fee came up again during the Aug. 28 Township Committee meeting, prompting the…
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BOE tables facility-use fee issue until next year
Millstone school district considering ‘resting’ elementary school BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer The Millstone Township Board of Education has decided to table the implementation of a new facilities-use policy until at least January. This summer the board decided that the use of school district facilities for non-schoolrelated purposes should not be a cost to the…
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He put color in the world’s superheroes
Barry Grossman talks about 47 years in the comic books BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer SCOTT FRIEDMAN As a way to help children understand the 9/11 Report, Upper Freehold resident and comic book colorist Barry Grossman helped create “The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation” by Sid Jacobsen and Ernie Colón. Grossman has worked in the…
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Community tees off ‘fore’ education, raises $10K
Education foundation’s first golf tourney fundraiser a success UPPER FREEHOLD UPPER FREEHOLD — Golfers helped drive nearly $10,000 into the Upper Freehold Regional Education Foundation. The foundation hosted more than 75 players at its first Tee Off Fore Education Golf Tournament June 9 at the Cream Ridge Golf Club in Upper Freehold. The money raised…
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Wine tasting will benefit MS center
CentraState Healthcare Foundation will present its seventh annual multiple sclerosis fundraiser, “An Evening in the Vineyards,” from 6-9 p.m. Sept. 5, at the Star and Barry Tobias Ambulatory Campus, 901 W. Main Street, Freehold Township. Proceeds will go to the newly named Linda E. Cardinale Multiple Sclerosis Center at CentraState Medical Center. The event will…
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Church growing garden for community’s benefit
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer ERIC SUCAR staff Chelsea Coleman, 7, of Freehold, tends to a community garden that has been planted at the Bethel AME Church, Freehold Township. Food being grown and harvested in the garden will help to feed people who are in need. FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Fresh fruits and vegetables are…
