Category: Independent News

  • State, local history will be on display at library

    State, local history will be on display at library History buffs are awaiting with great anticipation their annual trip to the Monmouth County Library Headquarters to celebrate Archives and History Day. This year, the event will take place on Oct. 16 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the library headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan.…

  • Crowd of 500 debates noise at Raceway Park

    BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — There may be ways other than legislation and legal action to address the issue of noise that is emanating from the Raceway Park drag strip, according to state Assemblyman Michael J. Panter (D-Monmouth and Mercer). Raceway Park is on Pension Road in south Old…

  • Battle of the Bands rocks in Keyport

    Radio Havana comesin loud and clearto panel of judges BY VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writer Radio Havana comes in loud and clear to panel of judges BY VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff Lead singer and guitar player Michael Trudel, 17, of Taken the Blame, Cliffwood, competes in Keyport’s Battle of the Bands at the Stop…

  • Golf outing boosts Scouts

    Monmouth Council of Girl Scouts’ 13th annual Girl Scout Golf Classic took place on July 12 at Knob Hill Country Club, Manalapan. This year’s event generated more funds than other golf outing the organization has hosted in the past. "Despite the soggy weather we raised $44,000. This was our most successful golf outing yet thanks…

  • Nonprofit gains second consecutive minigrant

    BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer ABERDEEN — For the second consecutive year, the Bayshore Regional Watershed Council, Raritan Bay, is one of 11 community groups and nonprofit organizations in New York and New Jersey awarded a minigrant from the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program (HEP). The group will receive $1,670…

  • Kidnapping attempt ends in stabbing, suicide

    Middletown teenhospitalized afterconfrontation BY VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writer Middletown teen hospitalized after confrontation BY VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — A Colts Neck man took his own life after he failed to abduct an ex-girlfriend and instead stabbed her 17-year-old brother at their Lincroft home, police said. Herbert Bertine, 27, was found dead by township police…

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters made a big difference

    Local woman saysnonprofit helped her through tough times BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer Local woman says nonprofit helped her through tough times BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer Irene Hayes, 21, of Long Branch says she is living proof that the Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) program can make a difference in the life of a child.…

  • Snail mail takes on new meaning in 07760

    Sea Bright asksfor its ownZIP code BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer Sea Bright asks for its own ZIP code BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT — Mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka-Adams wants to know what’s happening to the mail — both that come into the borough and that go out. In a letter to U.S. Postmaster Gen.…

  • Bellamy to be tried as adult for 1968 murder

    Suspect waived hearing on whether juvenile court rules should be employed BY VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writer BY VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writer Jerry Lee Bellamy FREEHOLD — Murder suspect Jerry Lee Bellamy voluntarily agreed to transfer his case from the juvenile to the adult court, where he will be prosecuted for the killing of a 13-year-old Middletown…