Category: Independent Calendar

  • Community Bulletin Board Lloyd Road PTO spring fashion show March 21

    Community Bulletin Board Lloyd Road PTO spring fashion show March 21 The Lloyd Road Elementary School PTO, Matawan, will hold a spring fashion show and gift raffle March 21 at 6:30 p.m. at St. Clement’s banquet center, 172 Freneau Ave., Matawan. The event will feature a sit-down dinner, door prizes, 50/50s, and a gift raffle.…

  • Ordinance would expand Keyport business district

    Staff Writer By darlene diebold Ordinance would expand Keyport business district KEYPORT — As expected, the Borough Council unanimously voted to introduce an ordinance that would expand Business Improvement District to include all commercial businesses, including the marinas. The public hearing will be held on March 5. The current district runs from Chingarora Creek to…

  • Town gets its ducks in a row for arts fund-raiser

    Staff Writer By ELAINE VAN DEVELDE JERRY WOLKOWITZ The Middletown Arts Advisory Committee is counting on these little ducks to help promote arts. In the background is committee member Roy A. Mussina. MIDDLETOWN — Things are looking just ducky for the arts in the township. By Deputy Mayor Rosemarie Peters’ account, arts enthusiasts are flocking…

  • Former soldier recalls an earlier Fort Hancock

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde They can huff and they can puff, but Al Zwiazek is one man who isn’t so sure that breathing new life into buildings at Sandy Hook’s Fort Hancock and Proving Ground could ever restore the historic fort to its former glory. Sandy Hook Partners and the National Park Service…

  • Investigation continues in gas station robbery

    ABERDEEN — Police are searching for the man who robbed a gas station at knifepoint last week. According to township police, $300 in cash was taken from the Amoco station on the corner of Route 35 and Amboy Avenue on Thursday at approximately 5 a.m. A black male suspect brandishing a knife approached the work…

  • H.S. North construction expected to start April 1

    Staff Writer By alison granito JERRY WOLKOWITZ The long-awaited construction project at Middletown High School North is finally ready to begin this April, according to a sign in front of the school. MIDDLETOWN — A sign posted outside announces to all who pass that construction is expected to begin on April 1 at High School…

  • Aid offered to those who lost jobs after attacks

    The 9/11 United Services Group, on behalf of the American Red Cross in Greater New York, The Salvation Army and Safe Horizon, has announced a two-week extension of the deadline for workers displaced by the events of Sept. 11 to make appointments for financial aid. The new deadline is March 8. The three above-mentioned agencies…

  • Pallone voices concerns

    Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-6, this week said he is opposed to the present plan to redevelop historic Fort Hancock because it favors commercial developers over nonprofits and educational groups that call Sandy Hook home. The legislator said he supports plans to preserve the historic buildings at Fort Hancock but is concerned that the plan…

  • Bova-Scarano to make third committee bid

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde MIDDLETOWN — Democrat Beverly Bova-Scarano has declared her intention to make a third consecutive bid for a Township Committee seat in November. The 60-year-old resident of 6 Marvin Road wants the competition to know she’s ready for another go in the race, party nomination or not. She thinks she…