Category: Examiner News
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Foundation to raise funds for schools via comedy
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – Funding education will be made into a laughing matter on the night of June 1. The Upper Freehold Regional Education Foundation (UFREF), a nonprofit that raises funding for programs in the Upper Freehold Regional School District, is preparing for its fall 2007 grant awards…
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Community pets safer because of second-graders
Students raise funds to purchase oxygen masks for pets in trouble BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff At the Upper Freehold Regional Elementary School on May 14, Ronnie Daldos shows firefighters George Luck and Brian Craine an oxygen mask that can be used on animals in an emergency situation.…
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Green Scene
May 2007 – Bring cachet to the flowerpot Gotti Kelley Green Scene May 2007 – Bring cachet to the flowerpot Gotti Kelley A gardener’s Mecca is indeed the time in spring and early summer when pale leaves break through the soil and you envision carpets of color soon to appear. On my way to the…
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Art in motion: A ballerina’s story
Allentown High School senior is twirling her way to the top BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Samantha Gullace For Millstone’s Samantha Gullace, dancing is everything. It’s home. It’s love. It’s life. It’s dreams come true. Night after night, Samantha transforms – usually during a car ride from Allentown High School to…
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New facility to provide many medical services
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – CentraState Medical Center, West Main Street, will soon have a new facility to serve the community with a number of up-to-date services and programs. An Ambulatory Care Campus is rising next to the medical center, and some of the facilities are…
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Package sewage treatment plants still not an option
Mayor puts to bed rumor that Luchento’s will build a plant BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE – The township is still not planning to have any package sewage treatment plants. Mayor Nancy Grbelja made that clear at the May 2 Township Committee meeting. All township residences and businesses currently rely…
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Serendipity Luck scores for young horse enthusiast
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Millstone’s Casey McMahon, 16, received her United States Pony Club C3 rating at a competition at Wit’s End Farm in Jackson. MILLSTONE – A local teenager is one step closer to realizing her dream of becoming a professional horsewoman. Casey McMahon, 16, a junior at Allentown…
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Organic produce offered through community farm
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer ROOSEVELT – Those interested in having fresh vegetables, herbs and flowers all growing season long should hurry to get their share. Roosevelt Community Supported Agriculture, which offers 100 shares per growing season, still has some openings for shareholders. Those with shares go weekly to the farm…
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McGuire Air Force Base to host annual open house
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer They’ll be flying high, those magnificent men and women in their flying machines, as the McGuire Air Force Base 2007 Air Expo and Open House gets set to roll off the runway. McGuire Air Force Base is on Wrightstown-Cookstown Road (Route 616), in Wrightstown, Burlington County.…
