Category: Examiner News

  • Most crown winners hail from New Jersey

    Cream Ridge farm plays part in 2007 Breeders Crown legacy What came down to the Breeders Crown began in the stallion barns of New Jersey. Five of the eight winners of the $4.7 million Breeders Crown Finals on Nov. 24 at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford are New Jersey-sired and a sixth, Southwind Serena, was…

  • Kindness of many makes Wishing Place possible

    Community heralds start of construction on Make-A-Wish building BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Children living with serious illnesses joined volunteers and local officials at a ceremony last week marking the start of construction on the Make-AWish Foundation’s New Jersey headquarters. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL ACKER Left to right: Andrew Quinn, who was granted a trip to…

  • Giving tree will help local animal shelters

    Animal lovers can share the holiday spirit this month with homeless dogs and cats by donating food, toys and treats through Best Friends Pet Care’s seventh annual Angel Tree campaign. Tags on the Angel Tree in the lobby of Best Friends Pet Care in Marlboro asks community members to help local animal shelters with donations…

  • New building may go up next to Kubiak Electric

    Office and retail space may go up along Old York Road BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – A new commercial building may soon abut the easterly bypass. The township’s Planning Board granted the project preliminary approval at its Nov. 27 meeting. Board member David Reed recused himself from voting on the matter, since…

  • National emblem

    PHOTO COURTESY OF JAKE CALVITTI A bald eagle landed to feed in a farm field on Walnford Road in Upper Freehold Nov. 30. Open spaces are critical to raptor migration routes.

  • Ballgame to be ‘snow’ much fun

    Winter softball game to raise money for UFRSD programs ALLENTOWN – Locals are already doing a “snow” dance, hoping for the white stuff to fall specifically for Feb. 9 of next year. After all, how much fun could a softball game in the dead of winter be without snow? The Upper Freehold Regional Education Foundation…

  • Panel to examine Route 33 traffic near Village location

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN – The Township Committee has appointed members to an ad hoc transportation committee that has been given the task of studying proposals that support access for motorists from Route 33 into the site of The Village at Manalapan retail center. Preliminary Planning Board proposal has been granted for The…

  • Business not conducted as usual in U.F.

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – The township’s governing body has not done much governing lately. Over the past decade, the governing body rarely has had to cancel Township Committee meetings due to lack of a quorum. However, for the first time in recent history, the township has had to cancel two consecutive…

  • Board’s Oyster Creek decision expected soon

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Athree-judge panel is expected to release a decision on the safety of the drywell liner surrounding the Oyster Creek nuclear plant reactor no later than Dec. 20, said a spokesman for the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). “The judges are still deliberating,” NRC spokesman Neil A. Sheehan said. “The…