Category: Examiner News
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Unlocking potential with the power of storytelling
Nonprofit gives ancient art a modern purpose BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Roosevelt’s Jaymie Reeber Kosa was recently named executive director of Storytelling Arts Inc., a nonprofit advocating the use of storytelling in classrooms. ROOSEVELT – The art of storytelling has its roots in the very beginnings of civilization and has…
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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…
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Upper Freehold rethinks giving bonus to builders
Developers who opt to cluster may no longer get more density BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – Township officials are now questioning the bonus in giving developers more density for preserving a portion of a tract to be built on. Questions about ending the 35 percent bonus density provision…
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Yeshiva drops lawsuit against Roosevelt
State finds organization running three illegal dorms in small town BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Yeshiva Me’on Hatorah and resident Paul Brottman dropped their lawsuit against the borough of Roosevelt on July 6. The borough was served with a suit to challenge its former zoning officer’s finding that 12 minors living…
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U.F. developing checklist for new alternative septics
New rules proposed for alternative systems BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – The public will soon get to have a say on whether the township should adopt alternative septic guidelines. After months of discussion, the township’s Board of Health voted 5-2 at its July 10 meeting to introduce an…
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Trying to put a price on preserving Upper Freehold
Public input sought on how much to raise U.F.’s open space tax BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – The township will consider placing an additional open space tax on the ballot in November. The Township Committee discussed the issue at its July 12 meeting. Township Attorney Granville Magee said…
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July ’07 gardens: Plain old green
BY GOTTI KELLEY BY GOTTI KELLEY Structural foliage plants give the garden a sense of definition and permanence. With summer’s lavish display upon us and gardens awash in floral color, let’s not forget the “plain old green” with its multifaceted textures and patterns. Henry Thoreau wrote, “Nature made ferns for pure leaves to show what…
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A U.F. subdivision story two decades in the making
Perl Acres could be up for final approval in August BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – The 19-year saga of the Perl Acres subdivision on Sharon Station Road continues. At the township’s Board of Health meeting on July 10, Kenneth Pape, the Millstone-based attorney for Perl Acres owner David…
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State asked to help pay for spraying
Moth control needed to ward off defoliation State Assemblymen Joseph Malone and Ronald Dancer have introduced legislation that directs the New Jersey Department of Agriculture to adopt a comprehensive gypsy moth control plan and provides $5.5 million in funding for the implementation of those control measures. “The damage caused in New Jersey by gypsy moth…
