Category: Independent Calendar

  • Community Bulletin Board ‘Poricy Park Day’ to celebrate Earth Day

    Community Bulletin Board ‘Poricy Park Day’ to celebrate Earth Day Poricy Park, Oak Hill Road, Middletown, will celebrate Earth Day with "Poricy Park Day" April 21 from 1-3 p.m. The free event will feature a puppet show, Milo the Clown, face painting, tours of Murray farmhouse, games and contests. Naturalists will also be available to…

  • Bird observatory to offer bird walks, workshop

    The new Sandy Hook bird observatory will continue its Tuesday morning bird walks April 23 and 30, and May 7, 14, 21 and 28 at 8 a.m. All walks commence at the parking lot at Guardian Park. The walks will be led by Peter Bacinski, director; Scott Barnes, teacher naturalist; and Linda Mack, N.J. Audubon…

  • Dems hoping to stage comeback in Matawan

    Staff Writer By alison granito VERONICA YANKOWSKI Though still a long way from completion, the site of the future Bayshore Ferry terminal shows some progress. MATAWAN — After a few years of lying low, the Democratic Party in the borough is attempting a comeback. Three Democratic candidates will be on the ballot for the June…

  • Community Bulletin Board Earth Day festivities set in Holmdel April 20-21

    Community Bulletin Board Earth Day festivities set in Holmdel April 20-21 The township of Holmdel will celebrate Earth Day April 20-21 noon to 2 p.m. at Bayonet farm, Middletown Road. The event will feature greenway nature walks, a bake sale to benefit the farm’s gardening committee, a plant sale, children’s crafts, fossil information, and a…

  • Sign up for weeklong July ‘Baseball Dream Trip’

    Brookdale Community College’s office of student life and activities will sponsor a "Baseball Dream Trip" July 1-7. The first game of the trip will be the Columbus Clippers vs. the Scranton Red Barons in Columbus, Ohio. The next stop will be St. Louis, Mo., to see the Cardinals play the San Diego Padres in a…

  • Monmouth Junior Science Symposium April 11, 12

    Monmouth Junior Science Symposium April 11, 12 Monmouth University, West Long Branch, will host the 40th annual "Monmouth Junior Science Symposium" (MJSS) April 11 and 12 at 9 a.m. at Pollak theater on campus. The event will be broadcast live via the Internet at www.monmouth.edu. The symposium is one of 48 regional junior science and…

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    VERONICA YANKOWSKI Shannon Keegan, 7, cleans up the trail that runs behind Lloyd Road School in Aberdeen last week. The cleanup was organized by neighborhood children in conjunction with the township environmental commission.

  • Zoning board to review White Castle application

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde MIDDLETOWN — If the owner of a Route 35 small tract of land gets his way, White Castle will come to town. A variance is being sought to build the 24-hour, fast-food restaurant, famous for its tiny square burgers, just south of the corner of Route 35 north and…

  • Committeeman steps up to GOP chairmanship

    HAZLET — He’s a former township mayor and a present committeeman. Now Michael Sachs is stepping up to the Republican Committee plate as its interim chairman. When former Hazlet Township Republican Chairman Walter Vella announced last month that he would step down from his post, initially no one offered to step in as his temporary…