Category: Examiner News

  • Rutgers offers horse farm, land management course

    The Rutgers Equine Science Center and the Rutgers Cooperative Extension have scheduled a two-day “Equine Farm and Land Management Short Course” Oct. 5 and 6. Specially designed for owners and managers of horse farms and other livestock facilities, the course will cover the basics of pasture nutrition and maintenance, manure management, soil fertility, environmental policies…

  • Plan for Millstone car wash kicked to the curb

    Zoning Board votes against proposed Route 537 facility BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE – No car washes in Millstone. That was the Zoning Board’s unanimous verdict at its Aug. 22 meeting, when it denied a variance for the construction of a 9,820-square-foot car wash and oil lube service center on Route 537. The board…

  • State cites yeshiva for more housing violations

    Neighbors concerned over organization putting up big, blue barrier BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer PHOTO COURTESY OF SHAN ELLENTUCK The large blue tarp erected at 28 Homestead Lane in Roosevelt on Aug. 23 as seen from the neighboring Ellentuck residence. ROOSEVELT – The state has cited the local yeshiva for more housing violations. The N.J.…

  • Football Fever

    Football Fever ANDREW MILLER staff Millstone Eagles football players and cheerleaders (top photo) gather for a Pop Warner pep rally at Wagner Farm Park in Millstone on Aug. 24 while Alexa DeSantis, 7, a member of the Mighty Mite cheer squad (bottom photo), looks on.

  • Religious freedom allegedly restricted in Roosevelt

    Yeshiva Me’on Hatorah files federal lawsuit against borough BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer The borough of Roosevelt is being sued for allegedly violating the free exercise and other civil rights of congregants and students affiliated with congregations Anshei Roosevelt and Yeshiva Me’on Hatorah. A federal lawsuit was filed on Aug. 27 in U.S. District Court…

  • Turn over a new leaf at the library this Sept.

    September is Library Card Sign-up Month, and area residents are encouraged to “Discover Monmouth County Library” by checking out its new programs or signing up for a card. Now in its 20th year, Library Card Sign-up Month is a campaign promoted by public libraries nationwide in cooperation with the American Library Association (ALA). Library cards…

  • Open space issue to come to a head in November

    U.F. residents show support for additional preservation taxes BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – Residents had both praise and questions for the governing body after it unanimously decided to put an additional 2-cent municipal open space tax on the November ballot. Upper Freehold currently has a 4-cent municipal open space tax. The Township…

  • Home made affordable in Millstone

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE – The township made some changes to its proposal for another group home on Burnt Tavern Road before its Zoning Board approved the project. At the Aug. 22 Zoning Board meeting, Township Planner Richard Coppola said the new facility will be a 3,000-square-foot, onestory, ranch-style house rather than the…