Category: Examiner News

  • The need for a speedway

    U.F.’s deputy mayor partners with Princeton man to buy racetrack BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer SCOTT PILLING staff Fred Vahlsing, of Princeton, (l) and William Miscoski, of Upper Freehold, talk about their co-ownership of the New Egypt Speedway below a billboard for the racetrack in New Egypt on Jan. 25. Last…

  • Ditch Witch welcome in Millstone Township

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE – The Ditch Witch franchise that has been located in the Manalapan section of Route 33 for more than 30 years will now be able to move into Millstone. The Zoning Board of Adjustment unanimously voted at its Jan. 24 meeting to grant a variance…

  • State court knocks down affordable housing rules

    Attorney believes regional approach is what judges want BY MARK ROSMAN & TALI ISRAELI Staff Writers BY MARK ROSMAN & TALI ISRAELIStaff Writers An Appellate Court threw New Jersey’s latest round of affordable housing rules out the window on Jan. 25. The ruling means that many local officials who were planning how their towns would…

  • U.F. may make affordable housing a developer’s issue

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – Township developers may soon have to build one affordable unit for every eight market-rate units in their new subdivisions. Township Planner Mark Remsa reviewed a draft of a new growth share ordinance that deals with state Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) requirements at…

  • AHS helps Home Depot help the environment

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Hamilton Township Home Depot employees accept a plaque on Jan. 10 for collecting used soda bottles at their store for local companies to reuse for packaging their all-natural plant foods, which are sold at Home Depot and other stores. ALLENTOWN – What happens to the 30…

  • AAA provides guides to parents of teen drivers

    In the aftermath of traffic crashes that have claimed the lives of teenagers, their passengers and other motorists, the AAA Clubs of New Jersey remind parents of new drivers that teenagers have the highest collision rate of any age group and teenagers who have driven a year or less have the worst crash rates. According…

  • Survivors of 9/11 responders may qualify for scholarships

    Legislation that state Assembly members Pamela R. Lampitt, Fred Scalera, Mike Panter and Patrick J. Diegnan sponsored to provide college scholarships to surviving family members of New Jerseyans who die from illnesses caused by exposure to the 9/11 terrorist attack sites has been signed into law by Gov. Jon S. Corzine. According to a press…

  • Traffic laws we don’t know or simply ignore

    Passing on the right or hanging tassels from a rearview mirror can get you tickets in the Garden State BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer You see the flashing red lights in the rearview mirror and you don’t know why. You weren’t speeding, and you know that you came to a full…

  • New center in U.F. would mix Christianity with arts

    Project’s leaders trying to gauge community interest BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Allentown UPPER FREEHOLD – For several years, Pat Weitz has had a vision of establishing a Christian arts center in the central New Jersey area. The vision began to come to fruition when she first established the Community Christian…