Category: Examiner News

  • Roosevelt passes the mic

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Quantum Blues, an acoustic and traditional blues band composed of Tommy Kelly (l-r), Paul Dames and Roosevelt’s Mark McCusker, play during the open mic event Jan. 19 at the Roosevelt Municipal Building. ROOSEVELT – Borough residents do not find the stage intimidating. With interests ranging from the blues to slam…

  • U.F. could offer more public water

    New school would tie into township’s water franchise BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD- The township is considering expanding the local water franchise area to service the new regional middle school. The Township Committee introduced an ordinance Jan. 17 to expand the franchise in order to provide public water to the school, which will…

  • RPS students bright from the start

    Roosevelt offers social, emotional, academic pre-K experience BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer The Roosevelt Public School family has a newborn that it is not only nurturing, but is getting lots of nourishment from. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Top: Collin Semanchick (center) distracts himself from circle time for a moment during the prekindergarten program at…

  • Millstone fire district proposes $1.3M budget

    Taxes for the average homeowner would increase about $38 BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Millstone Township’s Board of Fire Commissioners hopes that recent history doesn’t repeat itself and that residents will pass this year’s fire budget. David Markunas, a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners, attended the Township Committee’s Jan. 16 meeting and told…

  • King continues to inspire a change in human destiny

    Roosevelt residents converse about racial, economic injustice BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer ‘Do you have a clue where racism started?” Kiani Bonner, 10, of Bordentown, asked this very question after a presentation of a medley of songs from the Afro- American tradition and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech…

  • Stalking bill expected to be reintroduced

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Although it received last-minute unanimous passage in the lame duck state Assembly with an 80-0 vote, bill A- 4354, which sought to increase the penalties and alter the definition of stalking, died due to lack of time and a lack of action in the state Senate. The bill was introduced…

  • Vandals attack heart of Roosevelt community

    FDR monument pedestal may need to be replaced BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer JENNIFER KOHLHEPP The borough of Roosevelt covered the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial pedestal after vandals defaced it with spray-painted graffiti including the words “Ted is better.” ROOSEVELT- The Franklin D. RooseveltMemorial in the center of town was defaced with spray paint last…

  • U.F. Planning Board taps new appointee as chair

    New leader says recent master plan revisions require discussion BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – In a close vote, the township’s Planning Board elected a new chairman at its first meeting of the year. The board voted 5-4 to elect newly appointed member John Mele as its chairman. Mele previously served on the…

  • Blood donations urgently needed

    New Jersey Blood Services (NJBS), a division of New York Blood Center, will be conducting a blood drive Jan. 20 at Dunkin’ Donuts, 285 Gordons Corner Road,Manalapan, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. According to a press release from NJBS, the winter is always a critical time of the year for blood collections. Traditionally donations…