Category: Independent News
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For Warner, 45 years of putting students first
Educator continuesto reach out as pastorat Pilgrim Baptist Church BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer Educator continues to reach out as pastor at Pilgrim Baptist Church BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer Dr. Donald Warner It was the first morning of the first day of Dr. Donald Warner’s tenure as principal of Willingboro High School, and Warner had…
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Sup’t looks to keep administrators
BY PAT MILLERStaff Writer BY PAT MILLER Staff Writer HOLMDEL — Superintendent of Schools Maureen Flaherty wants to improve the Board of Education’s image and make the district more administrator-friendly in the coming year. "We can take a very fine district and continue on a course of excellence," Flaherty said at the Oct. 8 board…
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Planner’s illness forces board meeting delay
BY JOSH DAVIDSONStaff Writer BY JOSH DAVIDSON Staff Writer ABERDEEN — The township Planning Board postponed its meeting on two building projects that would bring over 700 new residential units to the municipality. On the board’s Oct. 9 agenda were approval hearings for preliminary and final major site plans and subdivisions at Horizons at Aberdeen…
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Sewerage authority vote on hold again
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer HAZLET — Officials decided at the Oct. 7 Township Committee meeting that the vote on whether or not to dissolve the Hazlet Township Sewerage Authority and replace it with a township-run utility will be put on hold until a transition plan is created. For…
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Political signs burned and defaced
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer HAZLET — It’s a sign of the political times. Some of the Democratic candidates’ campaign signs, which were posted on the lawns of Middle Road residents, were defaced last week. On one sign, Deputy Mayor Christopher Cullen’s name was covered with bumper stickers in…
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Holocaust center celebrates 25 years
BY JOSH DAVIDSONStaff Writer Holocaust center celebrates 25 years BY JOSH DAVIDSON Staff Writer JOSH DAVIDSON Holocaust survivors (l-r) Manfred Rosenthal, Middletown; Suzanne Axelrod, Matawan; Erica Rosenthal, Middletown; and John Woolf, Marlboro, recognized the 25th year in service of the Center for Holocaust Studies at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, Oct. 8. MIDDLETOWN — A community…
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Aberdeen council denies library funding
BY JOSH DAVIDSONStaff Writer BY JOSH DAVIDSON Staff Writer MATAWAN — The Township Council’s decision on funding has held up the second phase of a renovation project at the Matawan-Aberdeen Public Library. "We are at a stalemate at this point," the library’s director Susan Pike said. "We made a request to both municipalities, but at…
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KHS names six to Hall of Fame
BY PATRICIA A. MILLERStaff Writer KHS names six to Hall of Fame BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer KEYPORT — Their graduation dates span over 30 years, from 1944 to 1976. But the most recent inductees to the Keyport High School Hall of Fame share a common achievement — a lifetime of community service. For…
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Hazlet political debate nixed by Democrats
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer HAZLET — Democrats say there’s no need. Republicans say the Democrats are running scared. So goes the political debate status in the township. It all started when an informal, tentative invitation was extended from township Republican County Committee Chairman Steve Grossman to township Democratic…
