• Serious attention must be paid to pollution at NJ shore

    Summer beach season has officially kicked off and like many New Jersey residents, I will spend my weekends at the shore anywhere from Sandy Hook to Island Heights. Unfortunately, reckless development of Barnegat Bay and the shore is threatening the waters where we swim and fish due to chemical pollution from overstressed storm basins, making…

  • Millstone Girl Scout thanks the community for its support

    Thank you so much for your help and support on my Girl Scout Silver Award. I appreciate all the donations of books, pajamas, money, time, and moral support. I appreciate everything you did to make my project a success. I am proud to say I collected 700 plus books and 182 pajamas. I also helped…

  • Don’t weaken a law that protects children

    On Sept. 20, 2007, my wife and I awoke to the sounds of our baby daughter screaming. When I ran in to her room, I found that her crib front railing had dislodged from the side rail, catching her hand in between. She was only a little bruised, but it could have been much worse.…

  • N.J. Horse Council helps bolster equine enthusiasts’ various missions

    BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent Horses in the care of Millstone’s Helping Hearts Equine Rescue await adoption. MILLSTONE — A local equine rescue organization has received a $1,000 grant from the New Jersey Horse Council (NJHC). The grant was awarded to Helping Hearts Equine Rescue (HHER) on June 8 during the NJHC annual open meeting at…

  • Aspiring ballerina poised to train in Russia this summer

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Millstone’s Isabella Cerri, 15, (r) performs at the Princeton Ballet School in Cranbury. MILLSTONE — Isabella Cerri floats like a spirit on the stage. The ballerina tries to make each performance seem effortless to draw audiences into another world. Mastering this poised style of dance requires much practice. Isabella, 15,…

  • Lack of news coverage inspires help for tornado-ravaged Alabama

    U.F. woman reports back with message that people are still suffering there BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent Above: Upper Freehold’s Liz Blaso searches for family photographs in the remains of an 86-year-old woman’s home in Hackleburg, Ala. The homeowner survived the April 27 tornadoes that destroyed 90 percent of the structures in her town because she…

  • Low voter turnout for primary elections

    The June 7 primary elections in the Examiner coverage area weren’t exactly the nail-biters they’ve been in previous years. With no contested races in Allentown, Millstone, Roosevelt and Upper Freehold, voter turnout was low. While no Republicans filed to run in Roosevelt, the opposite was true for the three other towns, with no Democrats seeking…

  • AHS loses one of the catalysts in its continuing metamorphosis

    Principal Christopher Nagy accepts superintendent’s position in Bergen County BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Allentown High School Principal Christopher Nagy doing what he will miss the most — walking the hallways as students change classes — on June 9. He will resign from the principal position on July 1. JEFF GRANIT staff Christopher Nagy helped…

  • The trouble with trillions, and it’s not science fiction

    CODA GREG BEAN If you’ve been listening to the news lately, you know there’s a huge debate in Washington over raising the national debt limit. Currently, our national debt stands at about $14.3 trillion, give or take a few billion, and President Obama’s administration and the Democrats in Congress want to raise the debt limit by…

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