Category: Examiner News
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CAMP session focuses on arts and spirituality
ALLENTOWN – Not all camps are about pitching tents and roasting marshmallows. The Christian Arts and Music Program (CAMP) integrates the arts and spirituality into community service projects. A new six-week session of the midweek program begins on Wednesday, April 18, and will run through May 23. CAMP is sponsored by the Community Christian Choir…
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Millstone wrestler takes home state title
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Matt Doskoczynski, 15, of Millstone Township gets ready to pin Matthew Grundy, of Ridgewood, in the New Jersey Wrestling Association’s 2007 state tournament at Union High School on March 17. MILLSTONE – Matt Doskoczynski had to overcome adversity again this year to win a…
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Roosevelt mayor carries on Monmouth horse tradition
Mayor Beth Battel has been riding, training horses for more than 40 years BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Roosevelt mayor carries on Monmouth horse tradition Mayor Beth Battel has been riding, training horses for more than 40 years BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Elsbeth “Beth” Battel shows her horse Beemer some love during a break from…
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Businessman wants to turn manure into gold for town
Recycling equine waste could make Millstone money BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE – New Jersey is full of manure. And when Jim Hye says that, he isn’t expressing a political opinion – he really means it. At the April 2 meeting of the Millstone Agricultural Advisory Board (AAB), Hye presented…
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Scrapbooking event to help troops abroad
MILLSTONE – Scrapbooks and soccer balls have something in common with troops stationed overseas. In their own ways, the two pastime objects are actually helping servicemen and servicewomen abroad. Proceeds from a scrapbook session in Millstone will go toward purchasing items for the troops, which include soccer balls. Why soccer balls? According to Steve Matusz,…
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PHOTOSBY JEFF GRANIT staff Roosevelt Mayor Elsbeth “Beth” Battel rides Beemer, a dressage horse, at her Footlight Farm in Roosevelt on April 5.
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Poster thoroughbred sought for ad campaign
ReRun Inc. has announced a contest to help kick off its new advertising campaign promoting the versatility of the thoroughbred. The tag line for the ad campaign is “Your next (fill in the blank) horse is just a furlong away.” The motto will appear in trade publications, on posters, and at the group’s booth at…
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N.J.’s horse industry adds up to $3.5B
The equine industry helps keep New Jersey green.Not only does the 96,000 acres of working horse farms help keep the “garden” in the Garden State, but the equine industry’s value at more than $3.5 billion helps keep the state rolling in a different kind of green, according to a new study released by the Rutgers…
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A tale of tragedy, torture and survival
SCOTTPILLING staff Holocaust survivor Murray Goldfinger of Monroe shows where he was shot as a young boy while working in a coal mine in one of the concentration camps. The bullet missed his head and hit near his shoulder. Monroe man recounts his recurring ‘luck’ in surviving the Holocaust BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer With…
