Tag: Upper Freehold Township
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Local school boards return Bailey, Nolan to leadership positions
Two local school boards that serve Millstone Township, Allentown and Upper Freehold Township have reorganized for the new year. The Millstone Township K-8 School District Board of Education held its annual reorganization meeting on Jan. 4. During the meeting, the winning candidates from the November 2021 election – incumbents Theodore Filis and Christine Reese, and…
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Allentown storekeeper spent decades recording histories of area families
By Thomas K. Robbins On Aug. 15, 1922, (journalist) Ida Tarbell knocks at a door on Main Street in Allentown and is presented with an extraordinary gentleman named Charles Robbins Hutchinson. She describes the feeling of meeting him as “… same kind of feeling I have when looking for china … see a real Windsor…
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Monmouth County News Briefs, Dec. 29
The Monmouth County Division on Aging, Disabilities and Veterans Services, Area Agency on Aging/Aging and Disability Resource Connection (AAA/ADRC), recently received recognition from the New Jersey Division of Aging Services, Office of Area Agency on Aging Administration, for its efforts to help seniors during the coronavirus pandemic. In the annual programmatic and fiscal assessment of…
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Newcomers lead Redbirds into 2021-22 basketball campaign
ALLENTOWN – Third-year coach Walter Kelly and his Allentown High School boys basketball players are excited for the opportunity to be back on the court and playing a full season during the winter of 2021-22. Allentown went 7-5 in 2020-21 during a season that was significantly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. A host of newcomers…
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School districts will share cost of officer to provide traffic control
The Upper Freehold Regional School District and the Millstone Township K-8 School District will share the cost of providing Allentown High School with a police officer to assist with traffic control. On Nov. 22, the members of the UFRSD Board of Education approved a motion that proposed a shared services agreement with the Millstone Township…
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Allentown High School marching band wins national championship
The Allentown High School Redbird Marching Band has concluded an outstanding and memorable 2021 fall season with a victory in a national championship competition. The marching band won the USBands IIA national championship on Nov. 6 in Allentown, Pa. Prior to the national championship competition, the band won New Jersey events in South Brunswick, Jackson,…
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Examiner News Briefs, Nov. 24
The Allentown Village Initiative (TAVI) is planning four community-wide programs for the Christmas season. Full details and registration information is available at www.allentownvinj.org Registration is open for TAVI’s holiday wreath decorating contest. Individuals may register to display their creations at one of Allentown’s Main Street businesses. Wreaths can be hung as soon as Thanksgiving weekend…
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Writer continues research on old burial ground in Upper Freehold Township
By Thomas K. Robbins The publication of Ida Tarbell’s “In the Footsteps of the Lincolns” in 1924 generated renewed interest in the Robbins Burial Ground in Upper Freehold Township and in Deborah Lincoln, who was President Abraham Lincoln’s great-grand aunt. This may have been the reason for Dr. Edward McCue Bodine to declare he owned…
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Voters elect members of Millstone, Upper Freehold Regional school boards
Theodore Filis, Christine Reese and Deborah Riley have won three-year terms on the Millstone Township K-8 School District Board of Education. Filis and Reese are current members of the school board, while Riley is a newcomer who will join the panel in January. Their terms will run from January 2022 through December 2024. The 2021…