Category: Independent Calendar

  • Bayonet Farm panel hopes to upgrade farm buildings

    Staff Writer By darlene diebold HOLMDEL — This is the year that the Bayonet Farm committee hopes to really get things moving. Bayonet Farm, which was purchased from the late Laura Harding in 1985, received some upgrades last year, but more are on tap for this year. Harding retained life rights of the approximately 150-acre…

  • Town paves way for Spy Harbor condo project K. Hovnanian planning to build 120 units in Port Monmouth section

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde Town paves way for Spy Harbor condo project K. Hovnanian planning to build 120 units in Port Monmouth section MIDDLETOWN — The Township Committee paved the way last week for the development of the township’s lone marine commercial zone. The ordinance amendment, which loosens restrictions, will enable developer K.…

  • Photo

    “Cardinal in the Snow” by Dankwart Koehler, Holmdel, is on display during February at the Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury.

  • Local photographers to exhibit at Shrewsbury gallery

    The Guild of Creative Art, 620 Broad St., Shrewsbury, will present the works of five photographers at a show Feb. 2-27. An opening reception will be held Feb. 3 from 3-5 p.m. Two of the photographers are local. Dankwart Koehler is a Holmdel resident, and Claire Kipnis hails from the Wayside section of Tinton Falls.…

  • Blood center schedules February blood drives Central Jersey Blood Center, Shrewsbury, will hold the following blood drives in February:

    Blood center schedules February blood drives Central Jersey Blood Center, Shrewsbury, will hold the following blood drives in February: • Feb. 7 from 6-9 p.m. at Bayshore Community Hospital, 727 N. Beers St., Holmdel (bloodmobile at front entrance); • Feb. 13 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the school gymnasium at St. Leo the…

  • U.N. honors volunteers

    U.N. honors volunteers JERRY WOLKOWITZ Deborah Stanley (l), Old Bridge, a Project Linus New Jersey board member, and Hillary Roberts, Keyport, the state organization director, show off quilt murals created by children for sick children. Project Linus N.J. receives Nonprofit Award for outreach efforts By darlene diebold Staff Writer KEYPORT — What started two and…

  • Man robbed at gunpoint at Ab-Mat train station

    Staff Writer By alison granito ABERDEEN — A 30-year-old Linden man was robbed at gunpoint at the Aberdeen-Matawan train station at approximately 8 p.m. Thursday, police said. The victim had just gotten off a northbound train and was walking over to the south platform when he was approached by a black male who pointed a…

  • Additional time sought on mud dump project

    U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-6), and Cindy Zipf, executive director of Clean Ocean Action, recently appealed to Col. John O’Dowd, district engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, to extend the public comment period for the Port Imperial maintenance dredging proposal. The Port Imperial Corporation made a request Dec. 26…

  • Preservation N.J. to meet in Roosevelt

    Preservation N.J. to meet in Roosevelt By jane meggitt Correspondent Former state Sen. William E. Schluter of Pennington, who ran as an independent candidate for governor in November, will receive the third annual Sarah P. Fiske Preservation Award when Preservation New Jersey holds its annual meeting on Jan. 26. This year’s meeting will be held…