Category: Independent Calendar

  • Cars need to be off roads during snowstorms

    Township of Middletown Chief of Police John F. Pollinger is requesting local residents keep cars off all streets during snowstorms and bad weather. This will enable the township plows to clean streets properly and safeguard children to and from school by giving residents an open road. The police department will conduct a street-by-street check in…

  • Scouts raise $2,300 for Scouts in tsunami areas

    Boy Scout Troop No. 331, Holmdel, recently raised $2,300 for victims of the tsunamis in late December. The troop asked residents to make a monetary contribution to The World Friendship Fund to help Scouts in the disaster areas rebuild scouting lives. The Scouts solicited donations at Acme, Lincroft section of Middletown, Pathmark in Hazlet, and…

  • Instruments accepted for Matawan area students

    The Matawan Aberdeen Educational Foundation is sponsoring an instrument donation program for students in grades four and five. Students unable to rent an instrument due to family finances will be able to borrow a donated instrument so the student may participate in the beginning lesson program. The foundation has approved funds to have donated instruments…

  • Matawan UMC pancake breakfast Jan. 15

    Matawan United Methodist Church (UMC) will hold a pancake breakfast Jan. 15 from 8 a.m. to noon at the church at Atlantic and Church streets, Aberdeen. Cost is $4, and free for children younger than age 5. For more information, call the church at (732) 566-2996.

  • Meditation, visualization class slated for Jan. 19

    Free meditation and visualization classes will be offered at Route 34 and Disbrow Road, Matawan, Jan. 19 at 7:30 p.m. The class is designed to help attendees release stress and feel “in balance.” To register, call Roslyn at (732) 583-6654.

  • Firm to hold art contest for high school students

    The Red Bank financial investment firm Network 1 Financial is holding an art contest open to all Monmouth County high school students. Art must be an original, measuring up to 18 by 24 inches with the theme of putting the world in the palm of your hand. Works may be done in oil, acrylic, watercolor,…

  • Middletown library trustees to meet Jan. 19

    The board of trustees of the Middletown Township Public Library will hold its regular meeting Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. at the main library at 55 New Monmouth Road. For more information, call Susan O’Neal, library director, at (732) 671-3700.

  • Reservations now taken for trip to EWTN show

    Catholic Women of Zion, New Monmouth section of Middletown, will offer a trip to Mother Angelica’s Eternal World Television Network (EWTN) station and the live show “Threshold of Hope” with the Rev. Mitch Pacwa April 10-16. Reservation deadline is Feb. 1. The trip will also visit the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Hanceville, Ala.,…

  • Brush & Palette Guild business meeting Jan. 18

    The Brush & Palette Art Guild of Keyport will hold a business meeting Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. at the Cullen Center, 1776 Union Ave., Hazlet. All are welcome to attend. For more information, call (732) 264-3853.