Category: Independent Calendar

  • Registration under way for karate, kids’ program

    Hazlet Recreation is now taking registration for its karate lessons for children age 4-12, which will consist of 10 lessons beginning April 17. Cost is $32 ($15 late fee after April 16). Lessons will be Mondays from 4-5 p.m. and Saturdays from 10-11 a.m. at Amato’s Studio, Palmer Avenue. A uniform is required. "Mom or…

  • Poetry reading, talk on Mussolini at college

    Frank Vernoia The English Club at Brookdale Community College, Newsman Springs Road, Lincroft section of Middletown, will host "Teachers Who Teach, Teachers Who Write" April 7 at 6 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center. Donation is $2 per person. The event will featured 14 full- and part-time faculty and staff reading poetry and prose the…

  • Carving artist

    Carving artist CHRIS KELLY staff John Shersick, Metuchen, uses a chain saw to carve the Keyport High School Red Raider into a tree in front of the school on April 3.

  • Fire company card, coin shows April 17, 18

    Holmdel Fire Co. No. 1, Route 520 (off Route 34), will hold a sports card show April 17 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The show is free and will feature sports cards, vintage cards, supplies, autographs, figurines and memorabilia. A coin, currency and stamp show will be April 18 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., also at the…

  • Light show

    Light show CHRIS KELLY staff Karim Sayed, 16, twirls glow sticks at a Middletown High School dance on April 2.

  • Photo

    JEFF GRANIT staff The ceiling of the personnel office at Hazlet Town Hall collapsed March 31 after heavy rainfall and forced township officials to close the building permanently.

  • Youth groove

    Youth groove

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Middletown High School students get their groove on at a dance held at Middletown High School South April 2.

  • Open house at Christian preschool April 19-24

    Good News Christian Preschool of Gethsemane Lutheran Church, 60 Maple Place, Keyport, will hold an open house April 19-24 from 10 a.m.-noon. The school offers half-day sessions for children age 2 1/2, 3 and 4 years old, extended-day prekindergarten program for 4-year-olds, and "Lunch Bunch." For more information, call (732) 335-1522 or 264-8078.