Category: Examiner News

  • 1980 ordinance placed farming first in Millstone

    Agricultural Council reminds planners about right to farm BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE – Planning Board members learned more last week about the state’s Right to Farm Act and its local effect. Tony Romano, chairman of the township’s Agricultural Council, and Pat Butch, a member of the council, gave a…

  • Rutgers is all about horses in the spring

    Equine enthusiasts can trot off to Rutgers University for “Horses 2007” beginning next month. The educational conference is designed to appeal to all types of horse enthusiasts and professionals, regardless of their level of expertise or the particular breed of horse or equine pursuit they enjoy. The program is scheduled for March 31 and April…

  • What to do with equines in event of an emergency

    Millstone gives clinic about horse safety on farms and in trailers BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Millstone MILLSTONE – The main barn at Pat Butch’s Bright Meadow Farm on Prodelin Way narrowly missed going up in smoke last fall. Butch said that a van hit a nearby pole, which came down…

  • Gov. wants greenhouse emissions cut

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Gov. Jon Corzine signed an executive order Feb. 13 that seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state by 80 percent. The order is virtually identical to a bill introduced in the Legislature in June. Both the bill and the order mandate that greenhouse gas…

  • Little creatures teach large life lessons at RPS

    School receives $1,700 grant for curriculum study of living things BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Fifth-grader Jessica Hickey, 10, pets the belly of her African bullfrog named Pickles for kindergartners Courtney Carduner, 5, and Jackson Mixon, 5, during a presentation on terrariums at the Roosevelt Public School on…

  • U.F. mayor blames DEP for school project holdup

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – The mayor has alleged that the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is holding wastewater management plans hostage in order to force communities to follow Smart Growth principles. Mayor Stephen Fleischacker said the DEP’s Priorities and Action Plan for 2007 outlines how the…

  • Board member accused of cursing, using ethnic slur

    Krieger says he has a ‘big mouth’ but did not make racial remark BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – A township resident has called for Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education member Howard Krieger’s resignation for allegedly using a racial slur. Krieger has refused that request. Arun Singh, a…

  • Past forward: Out of the depths of local history

    Borough historian to step down as chair of local historical society BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – There will be a lot of change in John Fabiano’s life in 2007. At the end of the year, he intends to retire after 30 years with the N.J. Department of Health and…

  • Planning Board reverses Lee property decision

    Six homes will go up off Route 526 and Old Noah Hunt Road BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE – An application for a six-lot subdivision that the Planning Board previously rejected was unanimously approved at the board’s Feb. 12 meeting. The application for Country Roads Estates on Route 526 and…