Category: Examiner News

  • Kinsey’s win lands Republican majority

    Presidential election affected outcome, Pfefferkorn says BY TARA PETERSEN Staff Writer BY TARA PETERSENStaff Writer TARA PETERSEN Bob Kinsey, his wife, Paula, and their daughter, Alexandra, 7, are met with a warm welcome on election night. Residents of Millstone overwhelmingly supported their Republican candidates across the board last Tuesday. Locally, the race was tighter. Republican…

  • Committee votes to support school plan

    Official challenges board members BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — The township officially supports the new school referendum, but not without some reservations. At the Nov. 4 meeting to show support for the Board of Education, Committeeman Stephen Alexander asked the Township Committee to pass a resolution in favor…

  • Roosevelt mulls gray water issue

    Officials say future rate hikes not due to water meter installation BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ROOSEVELT — Water issues continue to be contentious in the borough. At the Nov. 1 agenda meeting, council members discussed problems with the storage of gray water, which could be treated from outside users and…

  • Rest or play?

    Clockwise from top left — Jerry Parker (r) launches a pass while being rushed by defender Steven Turowski during a pick-up touch football game Sunday. Kiran Shah, 4, of Millstone, relaxes on the bleachers on a warm autumn morning at Wagner Farm park while his father, Sunish, plays touch football. Matthew Turowski tries to run…

  • NJ Rep founders partners in life and in art

    BY KATHY HALL Correspondent BY KATHY HALLCorrespondent MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Gabor and SuzAnne Barabas are surrounded by theater memorabilia in the lobby of New Jersey Repertory Theatre, which they founded in Long Branch. SuzAnne and Gabor Barabas, founders of the NJ Repertory Co. in Long Branch, met at a Halloween party when they were teenagers,…

  • Voters elect to keep U.F. all-Republican

    Dems said town now has a competitive two-party system BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer The Upper Freehold Township Committee will continue to be all-Republican next year, with the election victory of incumbent William Miscoski and newcomer Stephen Fleischacker. Miscoski won his fifth term on the governing body, drawing 1,735 votes, the…

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    FARRAH MAFFAI staff Jesse Resto, 9, flies down the hill in front of the Upper Freehold Elementary School on a windy November day last week.

  • Family copes with loss, urges teens to reach out

    Suicide is on the rise and is the third leading cause of death for teens BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Nicholas Napoliello MILLSTONE — The mother of a 15-year-old male student who committed suicide last month is hoping that others can learn from her family tragedy. “I ask myself all the…

  • Bridge questions delay 60-home application

    Board members refrain from making a motion to approve application BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — The hands of the clock struck midnight before the attorney for a proposed 60-home development agreed to an extension for his client’s application. John Giunco, the attorney for Oak Tree Development at Holmdel — which hopes to…