Category: Examiner News

By ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer MILLSTONE – Investigators are attempting to pin down the cause of a motor vehicle accident that claimed the life of an 18 year-old Millstone Township resident. “Hearing this news is heart-wrenching,” Millstone Township K-8 School District Superintendent of Schools Scott Feder said. “To learn of the loss of a former…

Fred Davis, the national director of new chapters with the Antique Motorcycle Club of America, has announced that the Jersey Shore chapter has become the 63rd chapter in the national club. The Antique Motorcycle Club of America was founded in 1954 by a group of antique bike fans in New England, according to a press…

The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders has announced that the county’s recent auction of surplus items generated $180,736, bringing the combined total of the county’s online surplus property auctions to $2,961,759. Surplus property from the county’s Division of Fleet Services, Sheriff’s Office, Buildings and Grounds Department, Reclamation Center and park system, and seized and surplus…

EDISON — The New Jersey Comic Expo is coming to Edison. MAD Event Management will debut its newest comic convention on Nov. 21-22 at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center, 97 Sunfield Ave. The biggest event of its kind to come to the Garden State, according to organizers, the expo is a family friendly…

By ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer A slate of independent candidates scored victories on Election Day in Allentown. A four-year term as mayor and two three-year terms on the Borough Council were on the Nov. 3 ballot. Long-time Republican Mayor Stuart Fierstein and Republican council members Dan Wimer and Margaret Rose did not seek re-election. Their…

REGIONAL INTEREST By MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — A developer’s request for the use variance he needed in order to advance a plan to construct an adult community on Route 33 fell one vote short of approval. On Oct. 15, Terry Sherman appeared before the Manalapan Zoning Board of Adjustment to pitch his plan…

The Marlboro Public Library will welcome Dr. Eve Jochnowitz to discuss Fania Lewando’s Vegetarian Cookbook, translated and adapted for the modern kitchen, published this year as “The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook.” The program will be held at 1 p.m. Dec. 7. The book, which was originally published in Vilna in 1937, is filled with vivid and…

By ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer MILLSTONE – An effort to designate the 150-acre Showplace Farms property on Route 33, Millstone Township, as protected farmland appears to have stalled. Showplace Farms closed on Oct. 1. For decades, it was highly regarded in New Jersey’s horse racing industry as a premier training facility for standardbred horses. The…

The Entrepreneurial Think Tank for Women (ETTW) seeks to connect like-minded women, network, build relationships and to learn from and support each other. ETTW members share experiences and ideas that include a range of topics from stress management to personal and professional development issues, said Vanessa Coppes, of Marlboro, a co-founder of ETTW. Meetings are…