Category: Independent Calendar

Bulletin Board ‘Sandy Hook Lighthouse Day’ slated for June 8 Gateway National Recreation Area, Sandy Hook, will hold "Sandy Hook Lighthouse Day" June 8 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. The free event will include talks and tours of the house and keepers quarters, and demonstrations by Revolutionary War soldiers. The N.J. Audubon Society will hold an…

Community Bulletin Board Middletown Library to show free films in June Middletown Township Library, 55 New Monmouth Road, will show free films during June, beginning with a western starring Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen June 4. The films will be shown at 3 p.m. The film Flowers of Shanghai (Mandarin with English subtitles) will be…

VERONICA YANKOWSKI Irvin Beaver, president, and his son Brian, 12, sit by a new Sept. 11 memorial installed last week by the Middletown Township Retired Police Officers Association at the Route 35-Apple Farm Road jughandle, which the group maintains. The stone was donated by Joe Uras Monument, Middletown.

The Monmouth County Planning Board and Verizon will again sponsor a summer telephone book drive to collect old phone books for recycling. New phone books will be delivered in late May-July in Monmouth County. Residents may bring their old phone books to the Middletown Township Recycling Center, Kanes Lane, June 1 to Aug. 31. Recycling…

Community Bulletin Board National Trails Day at Thompson June 1 The Monmouth County Park System will participate in the trail maintenance program, "National Trails Day, June 1 at 9 a.m. at Thompson Park, Newman Springs Road, Lincroft section of Middletown. For more information, call the park system at (732) 842-4000. Group to hold discussion, tea…

David Dash, a native of Lincroft, is the featured trumpet soloist in Songs of Love and War by Paul Moravec, a lyrical setting of four letters to and from American soldiers, to be performed by the Monmouth Civic Chorus Saturday at Holmdel High School, Crawfords Corner Road. Dash is a student at the Manhattan School…

Staff Writer By elaine van develde Town square hearing brings new witness MIDDLETOWN — Witnesses and attorneys bantered back and forth last week over land use issues and whether a variance is ultimately needed to build a town square. According to Township Planning Director Anthony Mercantante, along with the new witness, William J. Herman, a…

Staff Writer By elaine van develde MIDDLETOWN — When a man didn’t like what he heard in court last week, he ended up allegedly biting a court officer’s arm. According to the report of Patrolman Stephen Keller, David Michael Serricchio was in court May 20 on a domestic violence charge when at about 10:20 a.m.…

The Monmouth County Park System’s Deep Cut Gardens Festival will be June 9 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Deep Cut Gardens, Red Hill Road, Middletown. The free event will feature tours, gardening lectures, demonstrations, food and craft vendors, and horticultural exhibits. It is sponsored by the Friends of the Parks. National Trails Day…