Category: Examiner News

  • New preservation program starts in Millstone Twp.

    Officials analyze agricultural and other industry trends BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE – One resident sees the township’s landscape as a place for vineyards and horses. Resident Gregory Cinque offered his ideas to the Open Space and Farmland Preservation Council’s Sept. 27 during a public hearing on the township’s new Farmland Preservation Program. The…

  • U.F. pushes for revisions by year-end

    Board to discuss changes to residential component of master plan Oct. 11 BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – Will 2007 be the year that the township finally adopts revisions to its master plan? The controversial master plan revision process began in 2005 and has been ongoing ever since. At the Sept. 25 Planning…

  • Boro to defend individuals named in yeshiva lawsuit

    Roosevelt set to incur counsel fees, court expenses, appeal costs BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer The governing body voted at its Sept. 24 meeting to authorize defense and indemnification for some of the public officials being sued by Congregation Anshei Roosevelt and Yeshiva Me’on Hatorah. A federal lawsuit was filed Aug. 27 in U.S. District…

  • U.F. resident helps raise $20K for cancer institute

    Brendan Foley, of Warren Township (l-r) and his brother, Christopher, of Upper Freehold, present Tom Papia, a Rutgers University student, with the Most Money Raised by a Fraternity/Sorority Award at the fifth annual High Speed Chase for the Cure 5K in Piscataway. The brothers work at Citi Smith Barney in New Brunswick, which served as…

  • Allentown bridge repairs could mean more busing

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer ALLENTOWN – Borough students who walk to school may need another way to get there come January. Superintendent of Schools Dick Fitzpatrick reported to the Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education Sept. 19 that the Main Street bridge, which many borough students use to get to school, will close Jan.…

  • U.F. resident charged over fatal collision on Meirs Rd.

    UPPER FREEHOLD – A 27-year-old township man faces charges including vehicular homicide in relation to a 2006 Meirs Road car crash that claimed the life of an Allentown woman. A Monmouth County grand jury returned an indictment Sept. 30 charging Louis A. Tufano Jr. with one count of seconddegree vehicular homicide and three counts of…

  • Commuters report bus line has begun making strides

    Service to downtown Manhattan remains focus for lawmakers BY ERIN O. STATTEL Correspondent Route 9 commuters filed into the Monmouth County Library Headquarters in Manalapan on Sept. 17 for a second meeting about the performance of Academy Bus Lines. The followup to an August forum was called by state Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck (R-Monmouth and Mercer)…

  • Unbridled: The artist inside the animal

    Notable racehorses paint using hued hooves, nose strokes BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Some could confuse a Manet with a Monet, but no one would mistake either for a Moneigh. PHOTOS BY ANDREW MILLER staff Left: BJ the horse chose to use his tongue while painting his “Moneigh” at Monmouth Park in Oceanport on Sept.…

  • Millstone boasts money saved on some 2006 projects

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE – The township’s roads were on the agenda and a matter of public concern at the Sept. 19 Township Committee meeting. Resident Ramon Recalde called access to the new middle school on Baird Road “an accident waiting to happen.” He said the roads there are “too tight” and asked…