Category: Examiner News

  • Freeholder will help study issues of teenage driving

    MBarbara J. McMorrow has been appointed to the Governor’s Teenage Driver Study Commission. “I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to tackle the issues that face young drivers, their peers, their families and their community,” McMorrow said in a press release issued by Monmouth County. “I want to ensure that our young drivers are well-prepared…

  • Oyster Creek drywell corrosion raises concerns

    BY DANIELLE MEDINA Correspondent TOMS RIVER – Will the thickness of the drywell liner surrounding the reactor at the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Lacey Township last for another 20 years if the plant is relicensed? That’s the single question now before three judges from the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB), the judicial arm…

  • Need for new water tower questioned in Roosevelt

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer ROOSEVELT – The Borough Council has called for another inspection of the town’s 70-year-old water tower. The Borough Council voted 4-0 at its Sept. 24 meeting to have a firm of structural engineers re-inspect the tower. Council members Pat Moser and Daniel Hoffman abstained from the vote. In January, Borough…

  • Student efforts eased soldier’s year in Iraq

    Army pilot from Millstone returns from base near Baghdad BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Ayear of uncertainty when lives hung in the balance of every chaotic moment living in a war zone recently came to a close for Gary Amatrudo. ANDREW MILLER staff Gary Amatrudo presents a slide show of information and images from his…

  • Drum major instinct

    Redbird Marching Band takes first place at USSBA competition BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff The Allentown Redbird Marching Band performs at the United States Scholastic Band Association Competition held at Monroe Township High School Sept. 29. ALLENTOWN – Dedication, persistence and self-sacrifice have paid off for Kyrsten Melander. Melander, a…

  • Lawsuit names individuals, including father and son

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer ROOSEVELT – The lawsuit recently filed by the local synagogue and yeshiva alleges that the borough and certain residents want to run them out of town. Filed by Congregation Anshei Roosevelt and Yeshiva Me’on Hatorah on Aug. 27 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the…

  • U.F. preservation activist remembered for service

    Meetinghouse, cemetery restoration coordinator dies at the age of 90 BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – The town has lost a catalyst in local historic preservation. Elizabeth Wright Meirs, known for her dedication to preserving the town’s history and some of its oldest structures, died last week at the age of 90. She…

  • 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 non-elected public jobs and receiving public contracts. According to Mallet, “We’re going to do the right…

  • Millstone against selling off New Jersey’s toll roads

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE – For the second time in two months, Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck made a presentation before the Township Committee. Beck (R-Monmouth and Mercer) had gone before the governing body July 18 to discuss the state budget. At the committee’s Sept. 19 meeting, she spoke about Gov. Jon Corzine’s plans to…