Category: Examiner News

  • 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…

  • UFRSD looks to tie Breza site into Allentown facility

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer ALLENTOWN – A partnership with the borough could reduce some of the costs of the new middle school project, according to the Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education. Although it voted Sept. 19 to have a 40,000-gallon-per-day wastewater facility designed for the new middle school site, the Upper Freehold Regional…

  • Autumn is the season for Allentown artists

    Allentown Art Guild members Shan Hoffmann and Ericka O’Rourke hang artwork for the guild’s fall show at the Jeff Martin Photography Studio in Allentown. ALLENTOWN – An art show during the borough’s annual Harvest Festival will feature more than 100 works by area artists. The Allentown Art Guild, a nonprofit organization made up of full-…

  • Corzine signs package of good government laws

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Gov. Jon Corzine signed a series of what have been dubbed good government bills into law on the morning of Sept. 4 at the Marlboro library. State Sen. Ellen Karcher (D-Monmouth and Mercer) opened the event by introducing the new laws. Karcher said the goal of the new laws was…

  • Of fish and chickens

    One U.F. man’s life at sea and on the farm BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Upper Freehold’s Les Osborn, 83, captains a fishing party boat off the shore of Barnegat Light. UPPER FREEHOLD – At 83, Capt. Les Osborn is still going to sea. One of the oldest fishing party boat captains on the Jersey…