Category: Independent News
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Federal funding options considered by borough
BY VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writer Federal funding options considered by borough BY VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writer KEYPORT — The Borough Council is considering uses for federal community development funds it hopes to receive this year. Borough Engineer Gerald Freda said community development funding is distributed to municipalities by the county. Each town is eligible for funds…
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$14.5 million town budget vote on hold
BY VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writer BY VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writer HAZLET — The Township Committee will have to wait a little longer before it adopts the municipal budget with a 4.9-cent tax increase this year. The committee held a public hearing on the $14.5 million budget May 4, but cannot vote on it until the state…
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Holt, Pallone seek review of CECOM duty transfer
Command BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer Holt, Pallone seek review of CECOM duty transfer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer FORT MONMOUTH — Reps. Rush Holt and Frank J. Pallone Jr., both D-N.J., are objecting to a recent Defense Department directive taking the long-standing battery management responsibilities away from the Army’s Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM) here.…
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Pallone comes out against fort’s privatization
Congressman calls for NPS to seekpublic-use tenants BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer Congressman calls for NPS to seek public-use tenants BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) recently called for talks between the National Park Service and Save Sandy Hook on the subject of keeping redevelopment at Fort Hancock in the public domain and free…
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Filmmaker’s focus: getting inside the outsiders
Fair Haven man seeks out society BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer GLORIA STRAVELLI Fair Haven neighbors (l-r) Alice Bullis and Peter Sillen have more than a neighborhood in common. Bullis is the subject of “Alice’s House,” one of Sillen’s documentaries. The outsider is a popular folk icon, but a local documentary…
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K-9 unit adds officer
The Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit has added a new explosives detection team as part of a statewide initiative to detect and render harmless explosive devices. Sheriff Joseph W. Oxley welcomed Sheriff’s Officer James Fay of Howell and Sheriff’s K-9 Falco to the six-team canine unit during a ceremony held at the Monmouth County…
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Students take odyssey to world finals
BY VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writer BY VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writer HAZLET — Four district school teams will compete against some of the world’s most creative problem-solving students when they head off to the Odyssey of the Mind world finals Memorial Day weekend. Twenty-eight students from Sycamore Drive School, Beers Street School, Hazlet Middle School and Raritan…
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Whelan to step down as school administrator
District curriculum head set to leavein September BY JOSH DAVIDSONStaff Writer District curriculum head set to leave in September BY JOSH DAVIDSON Staff Writer The Middletown Board of Education is looking for a new assistant superintended of curriculum and instruction. The board voted 8-0 at a special May 4 meeting to accept the resignation of…
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Parents find problems at North athletic field site
BY JOSH DAVIDSONStaff Writer BY JOSH DAVIDSON Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — A group of district parents want school administrators to respond immediately to problems the group found at the High School North athletic field construction site. A letter written April 22 by district parents James Cody and Dennis Pino includes 23 alleged code violations at…
