Category: Independent News

  • A year later

    The complicated journey toward healingOne year later,people affected by attacks still struggle with loss By jane waterhouseStaff Writer The complicated journey toward healing One year later, people affected by attacks still struggle with loss By jane waterhouse Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI Linda Dickinson holds her son, Patrick, at the Monmouth County Remembering September 11, 2001…

  • Boro seeks site for proposed skate park

    By darlene dieboldStaff Writer Boro seeks site for proposed skate park By darlene diebold Staff Writer KEYPORT — After months of searching for a site for a proposed skate park, the borough’s Recreation Committee is setting its sights on a portion of Jackson Street to build the park. "We are discussing the idea of having…

  • A year later

    Gone soldiering: Parents wait for son By linda denicolaStaff Writer Gone soldiering: Parents wait for son’s return Dorney among first to be deployed in Operation Enduring Freedom By linda denicola Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI Mary Beth and John Dorney proudly display a photograph of their son, Capt. Michael Dorney, who served as a logistics officer…

  • Senior apts. approved along Rt. 36

    By darlene dieboldStaff Writer Senior apts. approved along Rt. 36 By darlene diebold Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — The Planning Board unanimously approved the construction of a four-story, 180-unit senior citizens complex at its Sept. 4 meeting. Conifer Realty, LLC, which is based in Rochester, New York, was given site plan approval for the project contingent…

  • A year later

    FARRAH MAFFAI Kathryn Felt, 12, leans on her mom Sandra at the Monmouth County Remembering September 11, 2001 at Brookdale Community College. Edward Felt, Kathryn’s father and Sandra’s husband perished on Flight 93.

  • Bureaucracy taken out of cab licensing

    By elaine van develdeStaff Writer By elaine van develde Staff Writer HAZLET — Local officials want to know who’s shuttling people around their town in taxicabs. Yet officials want to make licensing easier to keep those cabs on the road. In an effort to streamline the licensing process for individual drivers and cab businesses, the…

  • County agencies preparing for future terror incidents

    Response teams trainedfor radiation, biologicaland chemical weapons By alison granitoStaff Writer County agencies preparing for future terror incidents Response teams trained for radiation, biological and chemical weapons By alison granito Staff Writer For local county officials it is not a question of if, but when, their resources will be tested by another terrorist attack in…

  • Fire damages Main Street auto shop

    By josh davidsonStaff Writer By josh davidson Staff Writer MATAWAN — A suspicious early morning fire caused interior and exterior damage to the Auto Tech Service Center, Railroad Plaza, Main Street. No injuries were reported, and nobody was in the building when the fire started just after 4 a.m. Sept. 3. The cause of the…

  • A year later

    Small airports feel pinch of tightening regulations By karl vilacobaStaff Writer By karl vilacoba Staff Writer At two local general aviation (GA) airports, several planes sat unguarded on recent afternoons, tied down with cord to turnbuckles in the ground. The only barrier between them and a visitor were short fences which could be walked around…