Category: Examiner News

  • More affordable housing, sans sprawl

    Twp. considers using Millstone House site for another group home BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Millstone Township wants to subdivide its property on Burnt Tavern Road for the creation of more affordable housing. At the Aug. 8 Planning Board meeting, Township Planner Richard Coppola discussed the proposal, which would help the…

  • Resident joins Middletown force

    MILLSTONE – Middletown has hired township resident John A. Soltysik as one of its three new police officers. Soltysik, 24, along with Raymond W. Sofield, 28, of Englishtown, and Keith R. Hirschbein, 31, of Middletown, received ceremonial oaths of office during Middletown’s Aug. 6 Township Committee meeting. Born and raised in Middletown, Soltysik is engaged…

  • Art off the wall (& out of the saloon)

    BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer “Uncle Sam” An exhibition at the Art Alliance of Monmouth County in Red Bank by Wayne Turback is his first since selling the South Amboy bar where for many years he had a venue for his paintings and assemblages. “The bar was my gallery pretty much,”…

  • Two planners, one answer: Protect water with zoning

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – Two township studies completed years apart reached similar conclusions, and officials have decided to act as a result of the latter analysis. Based on a recent nitrate dilution study and possible changes to the state Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Water Quality Management…

  • Freeholders adopt rules on campaign financing

    The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders has adopted what is believed to be the strongest pay-to-play reforms in New Jersey that caps all contributions from anyone doing business with the county. It also restricts the wheeling of campaign contributions from out-of-county special interests, political committees, candidate committees and political action committees. According to a press…

  • New stores will join Raceway Mall lineup

    Renovation is inspiring new retail locations at the Freehold Raceway Mall, Route 9, Freehold Township. From Abercrombie & Fitch’s newest concept to the latest fashion eyewear, six new stores have signed on to join the more than 200 retailers that comprise the Freeway Raceway Mall this fall, its parent company Macerich announced. Six of the…

  • Kids urged to take state’s global warming challenge

    Youths and their families can take action at home to combat global warming by participating in the New Jersey Global Warming Summer Challenge. The goal of the challenge – sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Environmental (DEP) Protection and Liberty Science Center, in cooperation with the Board of Public Utilities – is to increase…

  • One donation achieves philanthropy for many

    Monmouth County residents have the opportunity to do right by pets, volunteers and children in one fell swoop by making a donation to Paws 4 A Cause before Labor Day. The 15-member 4-H Club is collecting money in an effort to purchase animal-size oxygen masks for as many Monmouth County emergency-service units as it possibly…

  • Master plan revisions hold up downtown’s new age

    Project would put new businesses on Route 539 near Rick’s Saddle Shop BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – A local property owner has plans to raze Marge’s Deli in order to build some new retail and office space in the Cream Ridge section of town. John Vannoordenburg, who owns…