• Operation Medicine Cabinet offers safe disposal of drugs

    BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Start cleaning out the medicine cabinet of all unwanted, unused or expired medicine and prepare to take them to local police departments for safe and environmentally sensitive disposal during a statewide day of collection designated as Operation Medicine Cabinet on Nov. 14. More than 400 police departments are participating in Operation…

  • Roosevelt slates youth open gym program

    The Roosevelt Recreation Department is sponsoring a youth open gym program for students in grades 7-12 on Fridays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. beginning Dec. 11. The program, to be held at the Roosevelt School, 2 School Lane, is offered free of charge and will not run on days that school is not in session.…

  • For the Record

    To further clarify the article “Veterans help students connect to U.S. military history” in the Nov. 5 edition of the Examiner, the Veterans of Vietnam War Inc. and the Veterans Coalition New Jersey Post 03 in Millstone works with the National League of Families of American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action (POW-MIA) in…

  • Roosevelt pianist presents ‘Nocturnes and Ballades’

    Roosevelt pianist Alan Mallach will perform a recital of Romantic music Nov. 14 at Roosevelt’s borough hall. ROOSEVELT— Moods and stories will permeate Saturday night. The Roosevelt Arts Project will present “Nocturnes and Ballades,” a recital of Romantic music with commentary by pianist Alan Mallach at 8 p.m. Nov. 14 in Borough Hall. The nocturne…

  • Fund established in memory of Mary Klink

    UPPER FREEHOLD — Longtime animal control officer Mary Klink, who died suddenly at age 48 in September, was devoted to animals all of her life. Friends of Klink have partnered with two local animal rescue groups to establish programs in her memory. Helping Hearts Equine Rescue, Millstone, will use monies contributed to its Mary Klink…

  • N.J. voters say yes to open space initiative

    The pipeline for the purchase of open space — with the goal of preventing that land from being developed — remains open in the Garden State. On Election Day, Nov. 3, a majority of people who went to the polls, by a count of 52 percent to 48 percent, voted to continue funding to the…

  • Sheriff will stay until January

    Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno, who was elected as New Jersey’s first lieutenant governor on Nov. 3, has announced that she intends to fulfill her obligations as sheriff until she takes the oath of office as lieutenant governor in January. “It has been my privilege to serve as Monmouth County sheriff since Jan. 1, 2008.…

  • Curley’s win gives GOP control of county govt.

    Middletown resident claims seat on freeholder board BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer The Republican Party exerted its stronghold in Monmouth County on Election Day, Nov. 3, and newly elected Monmouth County Freeholder John P. Curley was part of that overwhelming GOP victory. According to election results posted on the Monmouth County Internet website, Curley…

  • Scouts created U.F. open space inventory

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — Local Boy Scouts earned recognition for their participation in helping develop the township’s master plan. The Township Committee honored Boy Scout Troop 180 on Nov. 5 for helping prepare the township’s open space plan by taking the inventory. Scoutmaster Bill Hoover, his son Alex and Jake Stein…

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