Category: Examiner News
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Housing is million-dollar baby
County report details soaring prices in Monmouth market BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer The Monmouth County Planning Board’s annual report on new residential development shows a continuing trend of more expensive houses being built in the county. The board’s report, which was issued in May, surveyed 147 new residential developments (8,066…
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Monmouth County earns AAA bond rating again
FREEHOLD – Once again, Monmouth County’s bonds have been granted AAA ratings by Fitch, Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s, the nation’s three bond rating agencies. Only a small percentage of counties throughout the United States have been granted AAA ratings, the highest rating, and only a handful of those can claim they have received the…
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Mayor’s possible conflict of interest under review
Involvement in warehouse site talks questioned BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Stephen Fleischacker The mayor of Upper Freehold may have to recuse himself from future hearings on the Rockefeller Group’s plan to build a warehouse complex on Breza Road. Mayor Stephen Fleisch-acker sits on the Planning Board and has participated in…
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Lifestock Show
PHOTOSBY CHRIS KELLY staff During the Stars and Stripes Invitational Livestock Show at the Horse Park of New Jersey in Upper Freehold on July 9, a goat (top left) makes eyes at passers-by, while Allentown’s Rachel Dey, 16, (top right) prepares her sheep, Pumkin, for the show. Tabernacle’s Brianna Dalton, 11, (bottom right) pets her…
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CHRIS KELLY staff Tyler Cattani, 7, of Chesterfield, shows his chicken, Emily, to Peter Velcheck, of Brick, during the Stars and Stripes Invitational Livestock Show at the Horse Park of New Jersey in Upper Freehold on July 9. More photos, page 32.
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Techies take top prize for seeing the impossible
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – A local student was one of five members of a team that recently won a national technology award. Tom Nicholls, 17, is a student at High Technology High School (HTHS) in the Lincroft section of Middletown. In late June, the Upper Freehold resident…
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Wolden gives up her BOE seat
ALLENTOWN – Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education member Kathryn Wolden has submitted her resignation. Wolden, one of three representatives from Allentown on the regional school board, has served on the board since April 2005. Her three-year term would therefore not have been up until 2008. In her resignation letter dated June 30, she stated,…
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Horses ready for adoption
ALLENTOWN – The Standardbred Retirement Foundation’s (SRF) annual Adopt-A-Horse Day will be held in conjunction with the 18th Festival of Horses at the Horse Park of New Jersey in Upper Freehold. The SRF is an award-winning, private, nonprofit organization that cares for, rehabilitates and then finds homes for standardbred racehorses that are no longer competitive.…
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Scales, feather, fur fest flies on Fourth of July
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Pet Show judges Margaret Schlinski and Cheyenne Dermody, 13, show off the prizes for best storytelling during Roosevelt’s Independence Day Celebration on July Fourth. Independence Day in Roosevelt bugle-called out the stars, the stripes and a lone sea monkey. The Fourth of July celebration…
