Category: Examiner News
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Peace on earth is focus of winning poster
Seventh-grader’s artwork advances in Lions Club’s contest BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Allentown’s Julie Scesney created this winning poster for the Allentown Lions Club’s Peace Poster Contest. She will receive a $50 U.S. Savings Bond. ALLENTOWN – In a 12-year-old’s perfect world, Canada waves across the ocean to an ecstatic Africa while the United States…
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Holidays will kick off with downtown lighting
On Nov. 26 from 5-7 p.m., the Freehold Center Partnership will mark the beginning of the 2007 holiday season with its annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the Monmouth County Hall of Records plaza at the corner of Court and East Main streets in downtown Freehold. According to Jayne Carr, executive director of the Freehold…
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Millstone Township piles on the philanthropy
Community helps PTO collect goods for the needy BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer It looked like Santa’s sleigh exploded in front of the Millstone Township Primary School on Saturday. SCOTT FRIEDMAN Karen Kay, Karen Otten and Ellen Stephan, all of Millstone Township, unload bags of donated items at the Millstone Township PTO’s clothing drive at…
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Cheerleaders ready to ‘rah’ in Disney
Three Millstone squads advance to nationals BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer MILLSTONE – The Millstone Eagles cheerleaders swept the Pop Warner Eastern Region Spirit Championships competition. All of the Millstone squads competed in the Region Championships Nov. 17-18 at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton. They went up against teams from New Jersey, New York,…
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Allentown graduate now a long way from home
Soldier’s mother tells of son’s experiences in Iraq BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Most members of the Allentown High School (AHS) class of 2005 are in college, studying for their future careers. Others have jobs and just began exploring the options life holds for those entering their 20s. At least one 2005 graduate is in…
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Smoking will be banned on CentraState property
CentraState Healthcare System plans to go smoke-free on all of its campuses effective November 2008, system officials announced. While smoking has been banned within CentraState Medical Center and other facilities in the health system for years, the new smoke-free initiative, dubbed SAFE (Smoke-free Air For Everyone), will apply to the exterior surrounding grounds, including parking…
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Public housing at naval base will be discussed
The U.S. Navy has entered into a scoping period as the preliminary process to drafting an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in order to evaluate the potential impacts of creating an access route to the Laurelwood housing complex at Naval Weapons Station Earle, Colts Neck, in 2010, as required by a 1988 contract between the Navy…
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Roosevelt files to have federal lawsuit dismissed
Yeshiva official says students will return to borough soon BY JANE MEGGITT & JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writers Roosevelt believes it has grounds to have the lawsuit that the local synagogue and yeshiva filed against it dismissed. The borough’s special counsel, Howard Cohen, has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit with the U.S. District Court…
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Native American history needs retelling
Thanksgiving portrays stereotypes that some find offensive BY LINDA DeNICOLA Correspondent November is American Indian Heritage Month and also the month when people across the country remember the Native Americans who are part of the Thanksgiving story. But some Native Americans are not happy about Thanksgiving because the stereotypes of their people are often caricatures…
