Category: Examiner News

  • Sewer plant improvement to cost $1M

    ALLENTOWN — The borough will upgrade its sewer plant and make water utility improvements. The Borough Council introduced three bond ordinances totaling almost $1.2 million at its Aug. 12 meeting. A public hearing and vote on the ordinances is scheduled for Sept. 9. The first bond ordinance, for $75,000, would pay for the purchase of…

  • District can’t afford free community use of schools

    Increased facility fees could put end to some township recreation BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Acandidate for Millstone Township Committee believes the Board of Education has a public relations nightmare on its hands. Fiore Masci, president of the local Pop Warner and unopposed Republican candidate for Township Committee, used the phrase regarding the board’s proposed…

  • Mathkinz.com motivates youths for math lessons

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer PHOTOS BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Varun Jain, 10, of Millstone, Abheek Pandoh, 10, of East Brunswick, Arjun Sehgal, 10, of Millstone, Shreyash Singh, 8, of North Brunswick, Swapnil Singh, 12, of North Brunswick, and Maansi Singh, 12, of North Brunswick, helped create Mathkinz.com, a Web site kids can use to develop…

  • Court fines for animal issues expected to rise

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — Dog licensing fees will not increase, but the fees assessed when animal issues end up in court might. Board of Health Vice Chairwoman Dr. Kathy Stryeski, who ran the Aug. 12 meeting in the absence of Chairman Dr. S. Perrine Dey, said that the board discussed the…

  • County residents urged to take mosquito precautions

    As the mosquito season enters into the peak period for West Nile virus activity, Monmouth County urges residents to take precautions to protect themselves from mosquito bites. Monmouth County Freeholder Robert D. Clifton, liaison to the county’s Mosquito commission, said the summer in Monmouth County is prime time for mosquitoes that thrive in water and…

  • Planner discusses U.F.’s ‘scary’ COAH obligation

    Twp. likely to have 186 more affordable units by 2018 BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Although fulfilling its state-mandated quota of affordable housing is important to Upper Freehold, residents don’t seem concerned about the issue. There were more people on stage than in the audience when township officials discussed the issue at a joint meeting…

  • U.F. man pleads guilty to vehicular homicide

    Louis A. Tufano faces three years in prison for 2006 fatal crash UPPER FREEHOLD — A 27-year-old township man pleaded guilty to second-degree vehicular homicide and three counts of fourth-degree assault by auto in relation to a 2006 crash that resulted in the death of an Allentown woman. Louis A. Tufano pleaded guilty Aug. 13…

  • Jewish Heritage Museum to open in Freehold Twp.

    BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer PHOTOS BY AMY ROSEN The Levi Solomon barn in the Mount’s Corner shopping center, Route 537, Freehold Township, now houses the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County. An open house will be held at the museum 2-8 p.m. Aug. 21. The corner of West Main Street (Route 537) and Wemrock…

  • Women go wild in the Assunpink

    National Wild Turkey Federation gets ladies enjoying the outdoors BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer ERIC SUCAR staff A group of women listen to Curtis Crowell of the New Jersey Beekeepers Association lecture about honeybees during “Women in the Outdoors,” an event in the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area sponsored by the New Jersey chapter of the…