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Youth group will sponsor spooky fun
Millstone Wyldlife-Younglife, a middle and high school interdenominational Christian youth group, will hold a spooky night of fun Oct. 18 at the Community Center, Route 524/Stagecoach Road, in the Clarksburg section of Millstone. Sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders will meet 6:30-8 p.m. Those in high school will meet 8-9:30 p.m. The event will include a scariest…
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Millstone firefighter retires after serving nearly a decade
Commissioners appoint acting lieutenant, fire official BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE — The township’s firstever career firefighter has retired, and an acting lieutenant has been appointed to take his place. Lt. Chris Weltner, a Millstone resident, announced his retirement last month, with an effective date of Sept. 30. Weltner was the first career firefighter…
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Millstone Community Education offers classes
Millstone Township Community Education will offer the following programs: • Musical theater ensemble, high school through adult, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Mondays, Oct. 12-Dec. 7, $248 fee, plus $12 materials fee. The class will concentrate on ensemble numers of all types. Students will be coached in character development, proper state movement, vocal technique and choreography. • Watercolor…
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Old fire truck sells for more than anticipated
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Millstone firefighters load the department’s retired 1986 Mack fire truck onto a flatbed for shipment to Louisiana. Grand Isle Fire Department, which suffered equipment loss during Hurricane Katrina, has purchased the truck for $20,000. MILLSTONE — A retired township fire department truck has found a new home in Louisiana. By…
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Finest and Bravest Appreciation Days’
On Oct. 16-17, Six Flags Great Adventure theme park on Route 537 in Jackson will host “Finest and Bravest Appreciation Days” and will offer special discounted tickets to firefighters, police officers and their family and friends. This comes during Six Flag’s 18th annual Fright Fest, “The Northeast’s Largest Halloween Party.” Special discounted tickets for theme…
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Two charged with criminal restraint
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE — What was reported as a kidnapping, which the complainant said began in Blackwood in Camden County and ended at the Millstone Wawa, has resulted in charges filed against two people. New Jersey State Police Detective Michael Rosica said that Douglas Verchlende, 26, Bradley Beach, and Evona Barnes, 21,…
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Tribute to Holocaust survivors at library
The Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Center at Brookdale Community College will present a program on its “Tribute to the Survivors in Our Community” at 2 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan. The tribute, designed to preserve the survivors’ past, and to recognize their resolve as they…
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Mine files suit against Millstone
Constitutionality of required mining truck route called into question BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Alocal mine owner has filed a lawsuit against Millstone and its governing body regarding the routes that empty mining trucks must take through town. Plaintiffs Maria Campo, the Anthony Campo Family, and Campo Construction Co. filed the complaint Sept. 4 in…
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Fire starts in high school dining hall
Damage minor, senior cafeteria closed for cleaning BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Afire broke out in a kitchen at Allentown High School after school dismissal on Oct. 7. Vice Principal Constance Embley reported that faulty equipment in the senior cafeteria started the fire and kept the blaze going longer than it should have. She said…
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