Category: Examiner News

  • Group studies WWII impact on Monmouth

    The Monmouth County Historical Association will hold a special event to honor and commemorate veterans of World War II on May 28 from 3-5 p.m. World War II veterans and their families are invited to attend a reception and view the museum exhibition “Home Front” at the MCHA Museum and Library, 70 Court Street, Freehold.…

  • Impromptu trip to Afghanistan an eye-opener

    Shrewsbury resident accompanies noted photographer to war-torn zone BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer STEVE McCURRY Art Petrosemolo (c), with Afghan translator and guide Qais Azminy, gets a close look from a motorcycle driver on the road in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. Petrosemolo took the pictures of the two Afghani children pictured at left…

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    PHOTOSBY JEFF GRANIT staff Students at Roosevelt Public School celebrate Arbor Day on April 28 with a walk around the school grounds that familiarized them with trees native to the area.

  • Contract dispute arises in Millstone Township

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer MILLSTONE – Contract negotiations between the township’s Board of Education and the Millstone Township Education Association will have to go to mediation, according to a May 2 MTEA press release. Broken-down negotiations between the board and the MTEA are “forcing the association to file an impasse…

  • Board approves warehouse development on Meirs Rd.

    Neighboring residents object to plan, will continue fight against it BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – Although the Planning Board approved the construction of a warehouse/office complex at the intersection of Meirs Road and Route 537, a neighboring property owner will continue to fight the development. At its April…

  • Vietnam Veterans Day scheduled for May 7

    HOLMDEL – The annual New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Remembrance Day ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. May 7 at the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, located off Garden State Parkway exit 116 in Holmdel. More than 200,000 New Jersey residents served in the armed forces during the Vietnam era, from 1959 to 1975. John…

  • Rumson mom ‘brews’ rollback of budget law

    BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer COFFEE, more than what’s in your mug, is on the move to save New Jersey’s public schools. COFFEE, which stands for Coalition of Families For Excellent Education, is a grassroots organization started by Rumson resident Kimberly Newsome, a stay-at-home mother of four who has made it…

  • Little League inducts first members into Hall of Fame

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff In the waning light of the afternoon sun Joey Marciano’s shadow is almost as big as he is as he works the mound for the Athletics against the Cardinals at the Millstone Little League fields on April 28. MILLSTONE – The Millstone-Roosevelt Little…

  • TV show wants walls that can’t keep secrets

    Area residents with historic homes sought for HGTV program Home and Garden Television is seeking historic homes with intriguing pasts to be featured in one of its most popular shows. “If Walls Could Talk,” a long-running hit series on Home and Garden Television (HGTV), features homeowners who have made amazing discoveries about their homes while…