Category: Independent Calendar

  • Allergy survival program at Matawan Library May 25

    Matawan-Aberdeen Public Library, 165 Main St., Matawan, will present an “Allergy Sufferers’ Survival Program” will be May 25 at 7:30 p.m. The program is free, but registration is required. To register, call the library at (732) 583-9100.

  • ALS to offer walks, tours beginning June 3

    The American Littoral Society (ALS), Sandy Hook, will offer a series of summer walks and talks around Monmouth County and beyond beginning with a four- to five-mile bike tour of Fort Hancock June 3 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. The guided tour will cover historic buildings, lighthouse and gun batteries of Fort Hancock and its surrounding…

  • Free lunch, talk on successful aging May 18

    The Holmdel Office of Parks & Recreation will present “Successful Aging – Make Those Years Golden” May 18 at noon at the Holmdel Senior and Community Center, Crawfords Corner Road. The lunch and discussion is free to Holmdel residents age 50 and older. Duncan Circle, a college professor of psychology, will present the program. Registration…

  • ‘101 Days of Safe Summer Driving’ May 22

    Middletown Chief of Police Robert Oches has announced the police department will support “101 Days of Safe Summer Driving” beginning May 22. The campaign will focus on two themes, the state-wide “Click It or Ticket” seat belt enforcement, and impaired driving enforcement crackdown. The township plans on using directed and aggressive enforcement, combined with a…

  • Reading program at Keyport library

    Keyport Public Library, 109-111 Broad St., is offering a reading program for Keyport children in prekindergarten through eighth grade, through June 30. Children must have a library card to participate. The program features various books, prize drawings, and an ice cream party at the end of the summer for children completing the program. The children’s…

  • Local Moms Club plants trees at Whale Creek

    The Aberdeen Township Environ-mental & Shade Tree Advisory Board recently supplied several trees that were planted along the bank of Whale Creek at Cliffwood Beach Park in late April. The board procured the plants from New Jersey Forestry Nursery. The 2-year-old trees were planted by mothers in a Moms Club in the Aberdeen-Matawan area. The…

  • Auditions slated for ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’

    St. John’s United Methodist Church (UMC), 2000 Florence Ave., Hazlet, will hold auditions for “Jesus Christ Superstar” May 21 at 3:30 p.m., and May 23 at 6:30 p.m. Individuals should prepare 16 bars of a song from either the play, “Tommy,” “Godspell,” “Sweeney Todd,” or “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” Performances will be Aug.…

  • Planting, recreation registration in Matawan

    The Matawan Alliance will plant flowers on Main Street in downtown Matawan May 20 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Volunteers will meet at the Bank of America parking lot on Main Street, and should bring own gardening gloves and tools. The Recreation Commission will hold registration for its summer program May 24 from 6-8…

  • ‘Afternoon for American Cancer Society’ May 20

    The fundraiser “An Afternoon for The American Cancer Society with David J.V. Meenan” will be held May 20 at 3 p.m. at the home of David J.V. Meenan, Middletown. Meenan will hold the fundraiser in conjunction with The Pampered Chef, with partial proceeds for the Cancer Society, and part for his friend Dana Lewis. Lewis…