• Victims of Conn. shooting honored at town meeting

    BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — Mayor Nancy Grbelja honored the memory of the 20 children and six adults who lost their lives in the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., with a moment of silence at the Dec. 19 Township Committee meeting. Grbelja said the holiday tree at the Millstone…

  • Trump trumps zoning; gets OK for helipad

    BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer COLTS NECK — Real estate magnate Donald Trump received the green light last week to build a helipad at his Trump National Golf Club off Route 34 in Colts Neck. In July 2011, the Colts Neck Zoning Board of Adjustment denied Trump’s application for the helipad. Since that time, attorneys…

  • Grant could fund downtown work

    BY ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer ALLENTOWN — A project for the borough’s downtown area that is expected to provide a number of accessibility improvements received funding from Monmouth County earlier this month and led the Borough Council to amend the 2012 municipal budget. According to state regulations, Mayor Stuart Fierstein and the council must ask…

  • Longest-tenured Monmouth employee concludes career

    Freehold’s Marion Vinyard has worked for elections department since 1961 BY JOSEPH SAPIA Correspondent Marion Vinyard It took more than a half-century, but it finally is happening: Marion Brown Vinyard is retiring from Monmouth County government. Her last day on the job as an elections worker, an area she has worked in all her 51-plus…

  • Victims must not be forced to abandon their property

    Eight weeks in and there was still a need to provide a hot meal to approximately 150 of the 250 or so folks who showed up for clothes and dry goods in Keansburg. How do we as a state, a nation, look at ourselves in the mirror when children and seniors are still going to…

  • With development stalled, board OKs time extensions

    BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — With planned development for the most part at a standstill, the Millstone Township Planning Board has cancelled many recent scheduled meetings due to a lack of applications. Meeting on Dec. 6 for the first time in months, board members extended time for projects that were approved years ago. Planning…

  • Registry is a tribute to late teenager

    Next of kin to be alerted if car accident victim is unresponsive BY STELLA MORRISON Staff Writer Sara Dubinin The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) has announced the launch of its emergency next-of-kin registry, which will ensure that a loved one is contacted in the event a car accident victim is unresponsive. The registry,…

  • Images of 2012

    Memorable photos taken by Examiner staff photographers Jeff Granit and Eric Sucar during 2012 included (clockwise from top left) miniature American flags being handed out during a presidential election convention during which pupils at Stone Bridge Middle School in the Upper Freehold Regional School District learned about the electoral process; Allentown High School goalkeeper Cameron…

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