Category: Independent News
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Cub Scouts learn gift of giving with holiday basket
By josh davidsonStaff Writer Cub Scouts learn gift of giving with holiday basket By josh davidson Staff Writer A group of Cub Scouts were taught the importance of appreciating what they have by giving to others. The 12 third-graders from Cub Scout Den 7 of Matawan and Aberdeen, which is part of Boy Scout Pack…
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Matawan gets help with train station project
By josh davidsonStaff Writer By josh davidson Staff Writer MATAWAN — The Borough Council is getting some help with the impending Aberdeen-Matawan train station redevelopment project. The council approved bringing in Beacon Planning and Consulting Services, Colts Neck, at a Dec. 20 special meeting to assist the borough with the train station plans. The company…
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Reconciliation committee holds first meeting
By josh davidsonStaff Writer By josh davidson Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — In an effort to heal the wounds of its past, members of the school district and its community met for its first Board of Education reconciliation committee meeting. Fourteen members of Middletown’s school community attended the meeting, held Dec. 16 in the Middletown High…
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Cub Scout pack brings holiday joy to seniors
By elaine van develdeStaff Writer Cub Scout pack brings holiday joy to seniors By elaine van develde Staff Writer HAZLET — Last Saturday was a day of holiday cheer for the seniors at Bayside Manor home. Township Cub Scout Pack 136 brought the spirit of the season to the senior home in the form of…
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Arendt to be honored at High School South
Board member was known to many as By josh davidsonStaff Writer PHOTOS BY JERRY WOLKOWITZ Above, Joseph Malfa (above l), the Middletown school district’s television production technician and Linda Ranger (above r), a television production teacher at Middletown High School North, work with studio cameras at Middletown High School South’s new television studio, which will…
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Police zoom in on repeat robber
Three police depts. working oncatching the thief By elaine van develdeStaff Writer Police zoom in on repeat robber Three police depts. working on catching the thief By elaine van develde Staff Writer If a group of Middletown police have it their way, there will be a burglar going to jail for Christmas. Police say that…
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Homes at Nike site to come down
Clearing way for township park By maura dowginStaff Writer By maura dowgin Staff Writer JERRY WOLKOWITZ All the houses on the historic Nike missile site, Telegraph Hill Road in Holmdel, are being demolished. The Township Committee on Dec. 16 ordered them to be demolished. The first house was torn down a day later. All the…
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Spanning the world to give the gift of education
By maura dowginStaff Writer By maura dowgin Staff Writer HOLMDEL — A group of students at St. Benedict Roman Catholic School got into the holiday spirit and gave the gift of a high school education to an African student. The school’s Builders Club, only in its second year, donated $300 to the Mount Elgon Foundation…
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Pooches homeless after fire
By maura dowginStaff Writer Pooches homeless after fire By maura dowgin Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI A family is homeless after their house, 22 Osborn St., suffered a devastating structural fire on Tuesday, Dec. 19. KEYPORT — One week before Christmas, an entire family is homeless after their house burned down in a suspected electrical fire…
