Category: Independent News

  • Committee hopes cluster zoning will save space

    By maura dowginStaff Writer Committee hopes cluster zoning will save space By maura dowgin Staff Writer HOLMDEL — The township is exploring inventive ways to preserve open space in the middle of land development. Township Planner Frank Banisch proposed cluster zoning and open land zoning to the Township Committee to help preserve open land. The…

  • First Street townhouses may be on Keyport’s horizon

    By maura dowginStaff Writer By maura dowgin Staff Writer An artist’s rendering of the townhouses proposed to be built along First Street in Keyport. KEYPORT — Townhouses may be in the future for a section of First Street. The borough’s Planning Board approved a zoning use variance to allow Woodmont Properties, Parsippany, to build 12…

  • Town center developer heading to court again

    Language in challenge to Zoning Boarddecision questioned By elaine van develdeStaff Writer Language in challenge to Zoning Board decision questioned By elaine van develde Staff Writer They’re calling them fighting words. The Mountain Hill Group, LLC, filed a complaint Friday in state Supreme Court alleging a decision by the Middletown Zoning Board not to hear…

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    JEFF GRANIT Valedictorian Matthew Brown offers sage words to his classmates at the graduation ceremony at Raritan High School, Hazlet, on June 24.

  • Campaign finance reform one step closer to reality

    Committee tries to end pay-to-play situations By maura dowginStaff Writer Campaign finance reform one step closer to reality By maura dowgin Staff Writer Stricter rules on Holmdel political campaign contributions may soon be a reality. The Township Committee unanimously voted to introduce an ordinance creating local campaign finance reform. The proposed ordinance restricts the amount…

  • Area man charged in car accident death on pkwy.

    By maura dowginStaff Writer Area man charged in car accident death on pkwy. By maura dowgin Staff Writer HOLMDEL — A 42-year-old Ocean County man was killed in a hit-and-run accident on the Garden State Parkway Sunday. Wayne A. Peterson of Toms River was driving a Ford Astrovan south on the parkway June 29 when…

  • Battling neighbors heard in court

    By josh davidsonStaff Writer By josh davidson Staff Writer HAZLET — After numerous reschedulings, a dispute between a pair of Matawan neighbors was finally heard in Hazlet Township court. The trial, which began June 20, will continue with testimony from Robert Anfuso, 258 Main St. Anfuso received a series of complaints, filed by Jeremiah Hourihan,…

  • Middletown school board rehires Kenney’s law firm

    By josh davidsonStaff Writer By josh davidson Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — Despite disagreement from some Board of Education members, the board approved Malachi Kenney as its attorney. The board voted 6-3 at its June 24 meeting to rehire Kenney, Gross, Kovats, Campbell and Pruchnik, Red Bank, as its attorney and labor counsel for another year.…

  • Patient plunges to his death at local hospital

    Questions remain as man is mourned at Aberdeen funeral service By maura DowginStaff Writer By maura Dowgin Staff Writer A Matawan Regional High School graduate and beloved Hazlet postal worker was laid to rest Saturday, four days after he fell to his death from a window at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Aberdeen native Bryan Edward…