Category: Independent News

  • Trips, exercise classes offered by park system

    The Monmouth County Park System will present "Watercolor Rearrangement," a workshop, June 25 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cost is $50 per person for the class, which will use rearrangement and/or collage treatments to transform students’ work. A trip to Philadelphia is set for June 26. Participants will be able to visit Independence…

  • KHS educator named county teacher of year

    BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Dr. Stuart Cristo of Keyport High School is the Monmouth County Teacher of the Year. At rear are students Katie Biechler (left) and Amanda Ries. KEYPORT — While there are many parents and grandparents who are adored by the younger generations, they’d be…

  • Committee undecided about bond ordinance

    BY VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writer BY VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — The Township Committee is considering bonding for playing fields at a school facility, but is still questioning the project’s plans and costs. The committee continued the tabled vote June 14, on a $880,000 bond ordinance for the development and construction of football and playing…

  • Committee undecided about bond ordinance

    BY VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writer BY VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — The Township Committee is considering bonding for playing fields at a school facility, but is still questioning the project’s plans and costs. The committee continued the tabled vote June 14, on a $880,000 bond ordinance for the development and construction of football and playing…

  • Form and function taught with Grace

    Keyport artist sharesher talents atThompson Park BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Keyport artist shares her talents at Thompson Park BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer LINDA DENICOLA Phyllis Rosser and art teacher Grace Graupe-Pillard at the Thompson Park Craft Center in Middletown June 2. In the long, low-slung arts and crafts building at Thompson Park in Middletown,…

  • Commuter parking on some streets may end

    BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer ABERDEEN — Commuter parking in the borough may get a little harder in the near future. The township introduced at its June 15 meeting an ordinance limiting parking on numerous residential streets. The ordinance calls for two-hour parking between 6-10 a.m. Monday through Friday on Ardmore, Autumn, Avondale, Brookview, Deerfield…

  • Summer work set for Ravine Drive School

    MATAWAN — The Ravine Drive Elementary School is scheduled to receive site improvements in its parking lot during the school’s summer break. The school will have an estimated $475,963 worth of work done to improve the conditions of the school parking lot. Improvements will include increasing the number of parking spots, adding parking area lighting,…

  • Police chief set to step down later this month

    BY VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writer BY VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Hazlet Police Chief Francis Emery, 64, has served in the police department for over 35 years and will retire June 30. HAZLET — After more than 35 years of serving in the township police department, including seven years as its top officer, Police…

  • Trips, exercise classes offered by park system

    The Monmouth County Park System will present "Watercolor Rearrangement," a workshop, June 25 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cost is $50 per person for the class, which will use rearrangement and/or collage treatments to transform students’ work. A trip to Philadelphia is set for June 26. Participants will be able to visit Independence…