Category: Examiner News

  • Survey to look at New Jersey’s ‘horse power’

    The New Jersey Equine Survey will take place this month.On or about July 17, New Jersey horse owners, horse farm owners and managers, along with others involved in riding, breeding, training or horse industry operations and services, will receive the New Jersey Equine Survey from the National Agricultural Statistics Service. The service is a unit…

  • Caregivers gain support via computer connection

    FREEHOLD – The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders, together with the county’s Office on Aging, has announced the launch of VieBridge Connections, a Web-based application for caregivers and the chronically ill, accessible at www.viebridgeconnections.net. Bringing together the latest technologies and educational materials for caregivers and the homebound suffering from chronic conditions, VieBridge Connections allows Monmouth…

  • PHOTOSBY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Clockwise from top left: Blaze Nolan, 13, nuzzles his long-haired hamster, Dannipher, during the Pet Show at Roosevelt’s Independence Day celebration on July Fourth. Luke Dermody, 10, holds his rabbit, Speckles. Gabrielle Scheinert (l) and Rachel Warner walk Vino, declared the most patriotic pet.

  • Democratic leader keeps enthusiasm for position

    Victor Scudiery believes 2006 ticket has chance to succeed in Nov. BY DICK METZGAR Staff Writer BY DICK METZGARStaff Writer Monmouth County Democratic leaders are hoping this is the year their grassroots efforts will begin to bear fruit. Both Victor Scudiery, of Highlands, who was recently re-elected by the executive committee of Monmouth County Democrats…

  • Millstone Twp. Middle School principal resigns

    Super suggests promoting from within to fill position BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer The Millstone Township School District will have to find a new middle school principal. Outgoing Superintendent William J. Setaro said in a phone interview on June 30 that Millstone Township Middle School Principal Daniel Bland submitted his resignation…

  • New ordinance flusters warehouse developers

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – Residents nearly packed the auditorium at Allentown High School on June 27 to sit in on the Planning Board’s third hearing on a proposed 1.8 million-square-foot warehouse complex. The Rockefeller Group, of New York City, plans to build three warehouse buildings totaling 1.8…

  • U.F. man displays art

    Michael Cohen, 20, of Upper Freehold, shows the artwork he submitted for an exhibit at Harbor School in Eatontown on May 11. UPPER FREEHOLD – Excitement was in the air at Harbor School in Eatontown on May 11. Michael Cohen, 20, of Upper Freehold Township, helped create a little of that enthusiasm as he displayed…

  • Birthday bash without gifts benefits children

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer PHOTOSBYJENNIFER KOHLHEPP Kortney Hughes’ friends show off the flip-flops they made at her birthday party. Partygoers brought donations for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia rather than gifts. Kortney collected $290 for the hospital. At right: Kortney Hughes, 11, reads a book to her sister, Shayla, 3,…

  • Lawsuit challenges warehouse approval

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – A group of residents has filed an appeal in state Superior Court, Freehold, asking for a reversal of a Planning Board decision that authorized the construction of a warehouse on Meirs Road. The group, called Meirs Road Residents Against Warehousing, filed a complaint…