Category: Examiner News
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May 2007 – Bring cachet to the flowerpot
Gotti Kelley Green Scene 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 garden beds, armed with a wheelbarrow, shovel and clippers, robins wait patiently for me to start digging, anticipating…
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Max Vuolle, a 9-year-old Roosevelt artist, works on a drawing at the Eleanor Gallery during the Roosevelt Arts Project’s 20th Anniversary Celebration May 5.Cecelia Pasterick, of Sayreville, made it down to Roosevelt to check out some of the artwork on display in the factory during the Roosevelt Arts Project’s 20th Anniversary Celebration. The Walt Whitman…
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Upper Freehold may seek to increase open space tax
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – Residents have asked the Township Committee to raise taxes. Specifically, residents at the governing body’s regular meeting on May 3 asked officials to hike up the municipal open space tax. The municipal open space tax currently accounts for 2.4 percent of the 2007…
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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.…
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Millstone aims to get more residents out and about
Next public hearing on recreational study slated for June 14 BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE – The township wants to know what its residents would like to do in their hometown in their spare time. Although attendance at the April 25 Recreation Study Meeting in Wagner Farm Park was sparse,…
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Asian heritage festival returns to Manalapan
BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer MANALAPAN – The second annual Asian Heritage Festival will be held May 5 from 1-5 p.m. at Manalapan High School, Church Lane, off Tennent Road. Presented by the Manalapan Arts Council (MAC) under the auspices of the Manalapan Recreation Department, the festival will celebrate all Asian…
