Category: Examiner News
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Jackson horse euthanized after contracting West Nile
Ocean County has recorded its first case of equine West Nile virus since September 2006. A 21-yearold mare from Jackson became sick on Sept. 26 and was euthanized the next day due to deteriorating health conditions. Blood samples later confirmed the presence of the virus. The horse was not vaccinated for the virus, according to…
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Tango: The king of all dances
Teacher sees dance as entrée to a cosmopolitan milieu BY LARRY RAPPOPORT Correspondent Fausto Bermeo knows the steps to happiness. And if you talk to him, you just might agree those steps lead right across a dance floor – more specifically, a tango dance floor. SCOTT FRIEDMAN Fausto Bermeo leads as a student practices the…
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October 2007: Conspiracy of memories
GREEN SCENE Agarden is a commitment. When your roses succumb to our Mid-Atlantic heat and humidity, when slugs eat holes in your hosta leaves and in anything else that grows close to the ground, when vines creep up and smother everything in their path, when insidious ailments attack your prize plants and insects suck, shred…
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Elected officials’ public jobs come under scrutiny
Panter, Mallet would push for close look at legislators’ other jobs BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Democratic state Assemblyman Michael Panter and his running mate Amy Mallet have vowed to focus on the practice of elected officials holding nonelected public jobs and receiving public contracts. According to Mallet, “We’re going to do the right…
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Lots of room for work, but little for play
New middle school playing fields won’t open anytime soon BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE – The athletic fields at the new middle school may not be ready for use until 2010. Millstone Township Board of Education member Thomas Foley, chairman of the board’s Operations Committee, delivered a report about the playing fields during the…
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Thousands walk for cure at annual Komen event
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON – More than 16,000 people turned out on Oct. 14 at Six Flags Great Adventure, Route 537, with the hope of raising more than $2 million in the fight against breast cancer. They participated as runners, walkers, volunteers and supporters. “We think this is a fabulous day,” said Nancy…
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U.F. nixes plan for village center on nursery’s land
Princeton Nurseries says election could alter master plan’s direction BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Princeton Nurseries, the largest landowner in Upper Freehold, will cease operations and close its facility by 2010. Some of the company’s land earlier slated for use as a village center may no longer go toward such a development project. UPPER FREEHOLD…
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Master plan revisions pick up steam in U.F.
New draft proposes equine communities, density transfers BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer With election season and the possibility of a change in the mayoralty on the horizon, the Planning Board has started the push to get Upper Freehold’s master plan revisions completed by the end of this year. The board has been working on trying…
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ERIC SUCAR staff The nominated homecoming queens and kings stand before the large crowd gathered during halftime at the homecoming football game at Allentown High School on Oct. 6. Seniors Mike Gilch and Brittany O’Brien were later crowned homecoming king and queen.
