Category: Independent News

  • Governor pushes property-tax relief plan

    BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer Governor pushes property-tax relief plan BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer In a tour to promote his new tax relief plan, Gov. James E. McGreevey last week sat with reporters to review his "three-pronged" FAIR (Fair and Immediate Relief) tax relief plan. The plan includes what McGreevey has dubbed a "millionaires’ tax"…

  • Committee to sell two parcels of open land

    BY VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writer BY VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writer HAZLET— The Township Committee is looking to sell two parcels of open land to help keep the municipal tax rate down. The two separate parcels of property total about 19 acres, and will drop the municipal tax rate about 7 cents per $100 of assessed property…

  • Committee introduces $800,000 spending plan

    BY VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writer BY VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — The Township Committee is looking to bond $880,000 for the development and construction of football and playing fields in town. The committee voted 5-0 May 10 to introduce a bond ordinance for the appropriation of $880,000 for the fields. A public hearing for the…

  • Senior citizen clubs find new home at middle school

    BY VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writer BY VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff Rebecca Corrado of Hazlet and Tyler Page, 11, work on an e-mail during a computer class given to seniors by fifth- and sixth-graders at Beers Street School in Hazlet Thursday. HAZLET — It’s back to school for some township senior citizens. The Hazlet…

  • H.S. North hosting event to fight SIDS

    BY JOSH DAVIDSONStaff Writer BY JOSH DAVIDSON Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — Members of High School North community will gather for a basketball game to raise money in the fight against sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The fifth annual Megan Biebel Memorial SIDS Basketball Game and Carnival will take place June 4 at Middletown High School…

  • Walk to aid ALS battle

    LAKEWOOD — Several members of the HBO series "The Sopranos" are scheduled to join hundreds of area residents to raise funds for local patient services and help find a cure for what is commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease by participating in the second annual Seaside Board"Walk to D’feet ALS" on May 22. Registration is…

  • No end in sight to record-high gas prices

    One gallon of regulargasoline nearing $2 BY MARC CAVELLA & VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writers One gallon of regular gasoline nearing $2 BY MARC CAVELLA & VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writers Travelers at the Jersey Shore will face record gas prices as they drive to their destinations this summer. The average price of a gallon of regular unleaded…

  • Wine lovers enjoy fruits of their labor

    Grape Beginnings BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer Grape Beginnings’ owners turn hobby into business BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Rich Trawinski and Frank D’Aponte took the passion they have for a hobby and turned that hobby into a lucrative business. The hobby-turned-business is "wine-making," and the two men, who are brother-in-laws and…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Early signs of summer began to emerge at the pond near the Murray Farm House at Poricy Park in Middletown on Sunday.