Category: Examiner News
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AHS receives Middle States accreditation
ALLENTOWN – Allentown High School has received accreditation through the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools (MSCSS) of the Middle States Association (MSA) of Colleges and Schools. Allentown High School was among five Monmouth County schools to earn the accreditation after a three-year review process. Biotechnology High School in Freehold Township, Ocean Township High School,…
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SCOTT PILLING staff Rose Bonvenga, an instructor for the Lego Robotics Camp in the Community Education Program at the Millstone Township Elementary School, helps some campers construct motorized devices with plastic building blocks July 20.
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Area agencies to receive funding
The United Way of Monmouth County Board of Directors recently announced that 63 local health and human service agencies will receive funding for the 2007-08 cycle. This year, approximately 50 volunteers participated in the annual resource investment process by reviewing 68 applications, making on-site visits to applying agencies, and conducting interviews with agency staff, board…
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PHOTO COURTESY OF BILL DENVER, OF EQUI-PHOTO Joe Jennings, of Allentown, drives his team of horses on a practice run through Locust with some friends on June 13 in preparation for a carriage drive from Locust to Monmouth Park in Oceanport, which will take place Aug. 25.
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Host families needed for students from abroad
ALLENTOWN – Host families are needed for international high school-age exchange students who are coming to study in the Allentown area during the 2007-08 school year. The exchange students are hoping to integrate themselves into a local family with the goal of experiencing American culture as a high school student in the United States does.…
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Harvey Road speed limit may be reduced by 10 mph
U.F. has performed traffic study, must wait for state’s OK BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – Township officials discussed lowering the speed limit on Harvey Road to 40 mph at their July 19 meeting. David Meirs III, the owner of Concord Stud Farm on Harvey Road in Cream Ridge,…
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Sweep nets fugitives and criminal aliens
A Freehold man was among a group of 131 people arrested in a recent sweep by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Luis Freddy Castaneda-Farfan, 30, a Peruvian national and current resident of Freehold, convicted in 1998 of second degree robbery, was among those arrested within the past three weeks by the ICE Newark fugitive…
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Another I-195 interchange in U.F. is possible
If federal government authorized project, most officials would support it BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – A resident has asked members of the governing body to go on the record with their stance regarding a possible I-195 interchange on Sharon Station Road. Trish Dore, of the Woods at Cream…
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Family vacation, what a relief – not always!
Amy Rosen Around Town Amy RosenAround Town My family and I recently returned from vacation at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia. Picture this: one woman and four men driving eight hours. What is the woman not going to do as often as she wants? Hint: it’s not shopping. When my husband gets behind the wheel of…
