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Scholarship honors young horse lover
The New Jersey Equine Advisory Board is offering a $1,000 scholarship to help 4-H and FFA members, as well as any young adult that is a member of a New Jersey Equine organization represented on the New Jersey Equine Advisory Board, pursue their equine activities. The Sara Dubinin Scholarship, in memory of Sara Dubinin, who…
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SRF will host fall festival, gymkhana
The Standardbred Retirement Foundation (SRF) will host an open house fall festival and Halloween gymkhana beginning at noon Oct. 30 at the farm, 108F Old York Road, Hamilton. The festivities will include pumpkin painting, pony rides, face painting, holiday vendors, wine tasting, seasonal pies and a gymkhana — speed pattern racing and timed games on…
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Jr. paleontologists for the day, RPS students teach why fossils rock
Third-graders collected over 200 specimens from Poricy Park for their geology museum BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Roosevelt Public School third-grader Anthony Orlando shows his fossil finds to prekindergarten students Tamsin Ditchik (l) and Ryan Sexton during Fossil Day on Oct. 12. PHOTOS COURTESY OF ILENE LEVINE A night in the museum has nothing on a museum…
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Princeton consolidation considered again
GUEST COLUMN GINA GENOVESE The residents of the Princetons have the opportunity to make history in New Jersey on Tuesday, Nov. 8, when they vote, once again, on the issue of consolidating Princeton Township and Princeton Borough. In the next few weeks, the Princetons can become a model for the state, showing municipalities how to…
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School choice would usher in education reform
I read with interest Kathy Wolden’s letter on school choice in the Oct. 13 issue of the Examiner. Perhaps Mrs. Wolden and other defenders of the status quo should ask why people would want their children to attend charter schools, private schools and home schools. Freedom of choice is the basis for our entire society,…
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Training at the Bolshoi: A ballerina’s dream comes true
Millstone dancer expanded her cultural understanding on NSLI-Y scholarship in Moscow BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Millstone’s Isabella Cerri, 16, on pointe in front of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia during a trip to Moscow that she took on a dance-related scholarship this past summer. MILLSTONE — After spending six weeks in Moscow this past…
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Allentown resident volunteers to run U.F. basketball for free
BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent UPPER FREEHOLD — The township’s youth basketball program will join the rest of the recreation programs in having a volunteer coordinator, saving the municipality approximately $3,500. Recreation Director Gail Mele announced at the Oct. 13 Township Committee meeting that Allentown resident Ray Gooley has volunteered to run the program with no…
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Drivers told to slow down, obey signals in Upper Freehold Township
Fatal accident prompts officials to issue warnings BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent Members of the governing body raised concerns and issued warnings about traffic problems in Upper Freehold at their Oct. 13 meeting. Mayor Lorisue Horsnall Mount, a Meirs Road resident, referred to the fatal accident that took place on her road a few weeks ago…
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