Category: Independent News

  • Trailers at ShopRite reported burglarized

    BY JOSH DAVIDSONStaff Writer BY JOSH DAVIDSON Staff Writer ABERDEEN — About $18,000 in tools were reported stolen from five construction trailers at ShopRite on Lloyd Road. The incidents were reported to police between 7 and 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 5. The 32,000-square-foot ShopRite is in the process of being demolished and upgraded into a…

  • Residents recall ’63 March on Washington

    CHRIS KELLY staff Members of the Pilgrim Baptist Church Choir, Red Bank, perform at the Salem Baptist Church, Long Branch, during the beginning of Martin Luther Jr. week celebrations. "We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.…

  • Planning Board finally adopts master plan

    BY VINCE ECHAVARIAStaff Writer BY VINCE ECHAVARIA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — After four years, the Planning Board finally adopted the township’s master plan with a unanimous vote. The adopted document will be the official master plan of the township, and Board Chairman Ralph Blumenthal said it is the board’s vision of where the township should…

  • Township Committee to meet with PTOs

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer HAZLET — They’re forging an official relationship of a different kind. With the advent of the new year and the political changeover from a Democratic to a Republican mayor, Paul Coughlin is in the process of creating a unique relationship between the governing body…

  • Former teacher indicted on murder charge

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer The recent indictment of a Christian Brothers Academy Latin teacher for the brutal August murder of an Ocean Grove woman has brought to the forefront the question of whether he will face the death penalty if convicted. Matthew Dailey, 30, of Millbrook Road, Brick…

  • Official undecided on proposed town center

    New committeeman says he will look at all sides before making a decision BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Tom Hall, who was recently appointed to Middletown Township Committee, takes a phone call at his Liberty Mutual office in Holmdel on Jan. 12. MIDDLETOWN — Tom Hall…

  • Planning Board names its new leaders

    BY JOSH DAVIDSONStaff Writer BY JOSH DAVIDSON Staff Writer ABERDEEN — The township Planning Board began the year with a new chairman and vice chairman. The board made new appointments at its reorganization meeting on Jan. 7. William Shenton was named to replace Wilhelmina Gumbs as planning board chairman. Gumbs was elected to her first…

  • Mother donates kidney to ailing daughter

    Correspondent BY ERIN ROMANSKI HAZLET — The mother-daughter bond is strong between township residents Paula and Charisma Stasse. Just over two weeks ago, Paula went under the knife for a vital kidney transplant to help her 20-year-old daughter, Charisma, who was diagnosed with lupus six years ago. Mother and daughter checked in to Robert Wood…

  • Volunteer aspires to be ‘voice for the voiceless’

    Cecilia Reynoldsoffers help day or nightto fellow Latinos BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer Cecilia Reynolds offers help day or night to fellow Latinos BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer “I feel [contentment] when I look into their eyes and they say ‘thank you’ from their hearts.” — Cecilia Reynolds She is a teacher, she is…