Category: Independent News

  • HOLMDEL — The Township Committee is considering spending money earmarked for improvements at Cross Farm Park at other township recreational areas. CHRIS KELLY staff A softball backstop at Cross Farm Park, Holmdel, where two lighted football fields for Pop Warner may also be installed. The committee voted 3-1 at its March 8 meeting to change…

  • Mat-Ab Board of Education adopts $54.3 million budget

    BY JOSH DAVIDSONStaff Writer Mat-Ab Board of Education adopts $54.3 million budget BY JOSH DAVIDSON Staff Writer MATAWAN — The Board of Education unanimously approved the introduction of a $54.3 million tentative school budget that calls for tax increases of 28 cents per $100 of assessed valuation in Aberdeen and 26 cents in Matawan. The…

  • Area towns relieved about state aid hike

    Area towns relieved about state aid hike Local municipalities received state aid increases in the 2004 state budget recently released by Gov. James E. McGreevey. Keyport received $1.1 million in state aid this year, for a $24,731 increase over last year. Councilman Robert Bergen, head of the finance committee, said the borough faces a budget…

  • Music by women, but not for women only

    Concert spotlights women composers BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer There is a deep vein of unmined gems running through the history of classical music. It is the golden music of women composers stretching back at least as far as the 12th century German composer Hildegard von Bingen. Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179,…

  • Petition denied by edu­cation commissioner

    BY JOSH DAVIDSONStaff Writer Petition denied by edu­cation commissioner BY JOSH DAVIDSON Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — The state’s education commissioner has denied a petition by a group of teachers against High School South Principal Daniel Lane. New Jersey Commissioner of Schools William L. Librera announced his decision to deny a petition through a letter to…

  • Public library gives back $100,000 to township

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — The township got back some of the money it has doled out for renovation of the library. The Middletown Public Library Board of Trustees presented a $100,000 check to the Township Committee at its March 1 meeting. The money, a second installment,…

  • Developer to be selected for So. River Metals site

    BY JOSH DAVIDSONStaff Writer Developer to be selected for So. River Metals site BY JOSH DAVIDSON Staff Writer ABERDEEN — The township is expected to name a developer within the next few weeks to build 60 affordable senior housing apartments on the former South River Metals site on Church Street. The developer will be chosen…

  • Sup’t ends reconciliation committee

    BY JOSH DAVIDSONStaff Writer Sup’t ends reconciliation committee BY JOSH DAVIDSON Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — A lack of interest in the Board of Education’s reconciliation committee has led to its demise. Poor attendance led to Superintendent of Schools David Witmer’s decision to end the committee, according his February "Superintendent’s Update" newsletter. The committee’s first meeting…

  • Accused murderer’s lawyer speaks up

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer FREEHOLD — As accused murderer Stephen J. Condit waits for a grand jury to decided whether or not he should be indicted for the Feb. 9 slaying of his Middletown apartment complex’s maintenance supervisor, his attorney last week maintained that Condit is not guilty…