Category: Examiner News

  • Residents reach out to hurricane victims

    Organizations collect funds, food and other goods to send South BY JANE MEGGITT and JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writers BY JANE MEGGITT and JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writers MILLSTONE — Locals are responding to the devastation in the South after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the area. The hurricane’s devastation reaches across Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida, leaving hundreds of…

  • Board approves Route 537 retail center

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE — Although an application before the Planning Board only needed a 3-foot variance, it generated a lot of discussion before receiving approval. Vincent Candullo proposed to develop a 5,600-square-foot retail site on a 4.67-acre tract on Route 537, with a 400-square-foot office on the second…

  • Millstoner uses sports footage to achieve stardom

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Aspiring filmmaker Mike Gaboff, 18, toys around with his digital video camera in the backyard of his house in Millstone. Mike Gaboff recently hit pay dirt. Dirt Star, a clothing company in Ridgeville, Ohio, recently decided to sponsor the 18-year-old Millstone Township resident’s extreme sports video…

  • Farming family sues for ‘true value’ of its land

    Lees claim Millstone officials offered to buy property, but never did BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer MILLSTONE — A Red Valley Road family recently served the township with a lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed with the Superior Court of New Jersey by Scott T. Tross, of the Newark-based law firm Herrick, Feinstein…

  • Area residents fume over high gas prices

    State inspectors find more than 100 violations in past week BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Gas prices posted at the Mobil gas station, located in downtown Allentown, on the Saturday afternoon of Labor Day weekend. Before Labor Day weekend, many area gas stations had long lines of vehicles…

  • Roosevelt residents petitioned by mail

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ROOSEVELT — All residents received a copy of another petition in the mail last week. The petition asks that Congregation Anshei Roosevelt and its new tenant at the synagogue on Homestead Lane — a yeshiva, an Orthodox Jewish high school for boys — go before the…

  • Board nixes new house on Backbone Hill Road

    Applicant would have given land away to neighbors BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE — The township’s Planning Board denied an application last week to subdivide a 10-acre lot on Backbone Hill Road and Sweetmans Lane. During its Aug. 31 meeting, the board cited severe environmental constraints on the parcel as…

  • Better Business Bureau cautions relief donors

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer TRENTON — Hurricane Katrina has prompted some people to take advantage of others’ eagerness to assist victims, according to the Better Business Bureau (BBB). The BBB of New Jersey in Trenton has compiled a list of what donors should keep especially alert of during this post-disaster…

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    SCOTT PILLING staff Heather, 4, (l) and Jessica Saltz, 6, have a good time playing in the fire truck during an open house held at KinderCare in Millstone Township on Aug. 23.