Category: Examiner News

  • Stampe, Herzer take helm of school district in U.F.

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – The Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education has voted in new leadership. At the board’s April 26 reorganization meeting, board members unanimously chose Joseph Stampe and Lisa Herzer, both of whom have only served on the board for one year, as president and vice…

  • Assemblywoman takes tough stand on threats

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer With no type of legislation currently on the books to handle the issuance of bomb threats, state Assemblywoman Amy Handlin (R-Monmouth and Middlesex) has announced plans to introduce a bill which would mandate punishment for anyone who makes a bomb threat or causes other false public…

  • Cell tower to get new arms in Upper Freehold

    Omnipoint agrees to screen monopole area with trees BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD – Cellular phone reception in the township, which can be problematic, may soon improve. Omnipoint will install six new antennas on the existing monopole behind the township’s Public Works building. The Planning Board unanimously agreed at…

  • First chess fest a success in Millstone Township

    Almost 40 township youths took on masters at Wagner Farm Park BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Michele Goffreda, 9, advances her king while playing James Turner, 12, at the chess fest held in Wagner Farm Park in Millstone on April 27. MILLSTONE – Defeat never seemed so sweet because…

  • Help needed at camp for children with cancer

    Camp Quality New Jersey is looking for volunteers to become companions for children with cancer at this year’s camp, scheduled to be held June 24-30 in Blairstown. Camp Quality N.J. is a nonprofit organization that provides camping experiences and ongoing support programs for children diagnosed with cancer, and their families. A companion’s primary responsibility is…

  • Board taps Friedman as prez

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE – Mary Ann Friedman will serve as president of the Board of Education for the 2006-07 school year. Friedman previously served as vice president, and was chosen by a vote of 6-3 for president at the April 24 reorganization meeting. Board members Tom Foley, Peter…

  • ‘History in motion’ at Historic Walnford

    Visitors to the Monmouth County Park System’s Historic Walnford, Upper Freehold Township, can experience the ups and downs, rumble and shake of the park’s 19th-century gristmill on weekends through Nov. 26. During these free demonstrations, visitors will see how corn was processed in the late 1800s. Open year-round, hours at Walnford are 8 a.m. to…

  • Learning outside four walls of the classroom

    Students clean school grounds, plant trees for Arbor Day BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Kevin Towle, 9, a third-grader at Roosevelt Public School, digs a hole for a dogwood tree as part of an Arbor Day celebration. Roosevelt Public School students learned on April 28 that the environment is a landscape…

  • Group fights to improve lives of unwanted horses

    Nonprofit currently has animals up for adoption at local farm BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Harmony Hill Farm manager Sergio Arias shows off how Losing Traction has recuperated at the farm and is almost ready for adoption. UPPER FREEHOLD – One local organization gives the injured, the orphaned and some horses…