Category: Examiner News
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Senior blasts board’s $39M building plan
Officials maintain Ellisdale Road is the only choice BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ‘Boondoggle.” That’s how Four Seasons resident Ray Murray described the proposed new middle school on Ellisdale Road at the Nov. 17 Upper Freehold Regional District Board of Education meeting. The board is proposing a $39 million referendum to…
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Cleanup duty
FARRAH MAFFAI staff Allison Bedmarz, 9, of Girl Scout Troop 621, joins scores of other Millstone volunteers to clean up their community Nov. 13.
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12 homes OK’d near Millstone burial plot
Cemetery, dating to 1700s, to be maintained by township BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE — A 12-house subdivision on Conover Road received final approval at the Nov. 10. Planning Board meeting. The 60-acre parcel owned by the Riverbrook Companies falls under the township’s previous three-acre zoning since preliminary approval was…
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Barris ‘Perfectly Frank’ when talking Sinatra
Elberon resident offers appreciation course on singer at Brookdale BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer PHOTOS BY KAREN BOWES Rosemary Riddle Acerra (r), the daughter of conductor Nelson Riddle, shows one of her father’s collaborations with Frank Sinatra to her husband Joseph Acerra (c) and Tony Scardau, a student at…
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Panter assures funding available for open space
Millstone officials looking to collect $1.8 million from state BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE — Township officials want to make sure Millstone gets its share of money for open space acquisition. Assemblyman Michael Panter spoke with members of the Horseman’s Association of Millstone Township on issues related to open space…
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Musical needs strike a chord with officials
Upper Freehold school board urges passage of $39M referendum ALLENTOWN — The mother of a seventh grader from Allentown asked school officials at the Nov. 17 Board of Education meeting when instrumental music would be brought back to the lower grades. Instrumental music isn’t offered until the sixth grade at Upper Freehold Regional School District.…
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Families needed to raise puppies for Seeing Eye
The Seeing Eye of Morristown is seeking people to raise puppies like these that will eventually be matched and work with blind individuals. The Seeing Eye dog guide school relies on volunteer families from New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware to provide puppies with early training that gives them a head start in learning how to…
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FARRAH MAFFAI staff Alexandra Lipman (l), 9, and Isabel Wittman, 9, of Girl Scout Troop 621 fight the wind as they help clean up Millstone Township on community cleanup day Nov. 13.
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Auditions
Brookdale Community College will hold auditions for its winter production of Paul Zindel’s “The Pigman.” Auditions will be held Nov. 29-30 from 6-10 p.m., and Dec. 5 from 7-10 p.m., at Brookdale’s Performing Arts Center, Lincroft (park in lot 1 or 2). Actors are requested to come prepared for cold readings from the script. Casting…
