Category: Examiner News

  • Santa arrives at Princeton Airport Dec. 24

    Santa has scheduled his annual stop at the Princeton Airport to distribute gifts to local children on Christmas Eve. Since 1975, the Nierenberg family, owners of Princeton Airport, have opened the hangar doors while children await the arrival of Santa. This year, the event will be held Dec. 24, with Santa’s arrival time to be…

  • Where is Fabio when you need him?

    My husband has two different personalities. First, there is the romantic side — the Fabio-like personality that enjoys moonlit walks, engaging conversation, and washing the dishes. Fabio doesn’t hang out much, although he did show up from time to time during our courting years. bringing roses, opening doors and gazing at me lovingly across a…

  • On Campus

    Christopher Krantz of Allentown has received a Chancellor’s Scholarship from Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. He is enrolled in the university’s School of Education majoring in social studies education. Haley R. Reimbold, daughter of Lorraine and Bruce Reimbold of Roosevelt, has received the Donald A. Hamilton Prize scholarship at Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. The prize is…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…