Category: Examiner News

  • $25M available for heat for low-income families

    U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt announced the release of $25,251,481 to help eligible low-income homeowners and renters in New Jersey meet home energy costs. The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funds will provide states, territories, tribal areas and the District of Columbia with heating assistance for the winter months ahead.…

  • Allentown faces 13¢ tax hike for school budget

    Upper Freehold’s share may be only .06 cents BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer The Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education took its first look at the 2008- 09 budget last week and it seems especially taxing for Allentown residents. If passed as initially presented to the board at its Feb. 6 meeting, the $31.5 million…

  • U.F. postpones expanding water franchise for school

    Officials uncertain if action would override alternative water option BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – A public hearing on an ordinance thatwould extendAqua Water Co.’s township water franchise to serve the new middle school has been carried to Feb. 21. Township officials agreed at their Feb. 7 meeting to carry the hearing after…

  • A loser on the racetrack becomes a winner in life

    ReRun Inc. helps find homes for retired thoroughbreds BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Eliza Devino, of Millstone, rides Native Hawaiian, a thoroughbred she adopted through ReRun, a nonprofit that helps find retired racehorses second careers and homes. MILLSTONE- Although he descended fromsuch thoroughbred luminaries asMan O’War, Native Dancer and Bold Ruler, Native Hawaiian was never…

  • RPS principal, happy students played hooky

    Roosevelt Public School students were allowed to play hooky on Feb. 5. JEFF GRANIT staff Fifth-grader Jeremy Block beats on his chest and makes a gorilla sound during Schoolhouse Hooky Day at Roosevelt Public School on Feb. 5. For story, see page 33. The school staff and even Principal Shari Payson played hooky that day…

  • Crowd does not give governor an E-ZPass

    Corzine explains need for toll increases; residents pan program BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Gov. Jon Corzine received a less than warm welcome at Marlboro High School on Feb. 4 when he came to Monmouth County to present his financial restructuring and debt reduction program for New Jersey. CHRIS KELLY staff Millstone’s Mike Campion asks…

  • County-wide effort seeks count of homeless people

    On Jan. 29,Monmouth County Freeholder Barbara J. McMorrow joined a team of 100 volunteers and county employees at Monmouth County’s 2008 Project Homeless Connect event, part of a statewide effort to obtain a snapshot of the homeless citizens. The team worked at four locations to collect information from individuals and families in need of housing…

  • Question mark looms over Breza Road preservation

    U.F. officials advised not to discuss project BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – Questions have surfaced regarding the preservation of a 135-acre property on Breza Road. In June 2007, then-mayor Stephen Fleischacker said the site’s landowner, Neil Van Cleef, was willing to sell the acreage for preservation “at a substantially reduced price,” but…

  • Bill could enable access to birth info by adoptees

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer The state SenateHealth,Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee are unanimously supporting a bill that would grant adult adoptees the right to access their birth certificates. Under the bill (S611), an adoptee over 18 years of age or the adoptive parent of a child can request their birth certificate from the…