Category: Independent News

  • PRB opposing plans to demolish Olde Union House

    Building BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer GLORIA STRAVELLI George Bowden (above) points to a list of historic Red Bank buildings demolished for new development at a Preservation Red Bank meeting, Sunday. Below, plans for the Olde Union House site call for a four-story building with retail space on the first level,…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Martin Fudali (l), of Brick, and Donald Pratt, of Middletown, view an engine block in a Chrysler PT Cruiser that was on display May 2 Middletown High School North’s classic car show, benefiting the March of Dimes.

  • Freeholders join GOP group to remove Dowd

    County Republican chair expects to win re-election in June BY VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writer BY VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writer Four members of the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders and two former county Republican chairmen have joined forces with the Monmouth County GOP for Change to oust county Republican Chairman William Dowd. Freeholder Director Harry Larrison Jr., Deputy…

  • Committee approves $16.1 million budget

    BY VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writer Committee approves $16.1 million budget BY VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — The Township Committee has adopted the municipal budget, but some residents question part of its recreation spending plan. The committee voted 3-2 at the budget’s final public hearing April 26 to adopt the $16.1 million budget with a 2.7-cent…

  • DEP head wants NPS to reopen lease process

    Commissioner doubtsviability of plan created by Sandy Hook PartnersBY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer Commissioner doubts viability of plan created by Sandy Hook Partners BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer The state’s highest ranking environmental official endorsed the redevelopment of historic buildings at Fort Hancock but suggested it’s time to dump the private developer, chosen for the project…

  • No disguising reason for costume shop’s move

    Rising rents in Red Bank behind store owner BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Bennett Camhi, owner of The Costume Shop located in the Red Bank mini-mall at the corner of Broad and Monmouth streets, holds up a Roman soldier costume. Crammed with costumes, fright masks, stage makeup and…

  • Planning Board approves forge project permits

    BY MARC CAVELLAStaff Writer BY MARC CAVELLA Staff Writer ABERDEEN — The Township Planning Board is unanimously in favor of going ahead with the Horizons at Aberdeen Forge housing project. The board voted 7-0 to grant final approval to the project at a board meeting held April 27. The plan, which calls for the construction…

  • Police investigate PTO leader’s broken window

    BY MARC CAVELLAStaff Writer BY MARC CAVELLA Staff Writer ABERDEEN — No good deed goes unpunished. That is what Mary Hasler said crossed her mind when her car window was shattered at 3 p.m. on April 20, possibly by a pellet from a pellet gun, in front of her residence on Idolstone Lane. Hasler, the…

  • Board formally accepts

    Lane BY JOSH DAVIDSONStaff Writer BY JOSH DAVIDSON Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — The tenure of High School South Principal Daniel Lane will officially end June 30. The Board of Education unanimously approved at its April 27 reorganization meeting an administrative leave for Lane that runs from March 12 to June 30, and accepted his resignation…