Category: Independent News
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Local wine shop named business of the month
Staff Writer By Josh Davidson VERONICA YANKOWSKI Felix Sanchez (l) and Kristen Sipler (r) stand under the archways in front of the vast display of wines at Matawan’s La Bottega wine shop. MATAWAN — Being selected as Matawan’s May Business of the Month is evidence that La Bottega Wine Shop owner Felix Sanchez’s efforts to…
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Council gears up for fireworks
Staff Writer By Josh Davidson The key to Keyport’s annual fireworks extravaganza is cooperation from neighboring Aberdeen. The Aberdeen Township Council was sent a letter from Mayor Kevin Graham on behalf of the Keyport Business Alliance requesting permission to launch fireworks from Aberdeen, said Aberdeen Mayor David Sobel at the council’s June 3 workshop meeting.…
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Owner of condemned property wants it back Officials say it will serve municipal purpose, possibly as open space
Staff Writer By ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Owner of condemned property wants it back Officials say it will serve municipal purpose, possibly as open space HAZLET — If you don’t really need it, give it back to someone who wants it. That’s Jersey City resident Angelo Stracquatanio’s take on the latest turn in condemnation court regarding…
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Police seek ID of dead man
Pictured above is a sketch of an unidentified man whose decomposing body authorities found on an island in Natco Lake, bordering Hazlet and Union Beach. The man is described as a white male between the ages of 35 and 50, 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 150 to 170 pounds…
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Local man grabs second daytime Emmy
Staff Writer By darlene diebold Local man grabs second daytime Emmy FARRAH MAFFAI Michael Pomarico sits with the second Emmy award he won for technical direction of the soap opera All My Children in his Holmdel home last week. HOLMDEL — Michael Pomarico is living his childhood dream. For the second time in seven years…
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2 cell antenna applications on Planning Board table
Staff Writer By ELAINE VAN DEVELDE 2 cell antenna applications on Planning Board table HAZLET – On the heels of a new edict to ban hand-held cell phone use while driving in the township, two applications for phone antenna installment in the same spot are now on the Planning Board table. That spot is the…
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Keyport Historical Society turns 30
Staff Writer By darlene diebold Keyport Historical Society turns 30 VERONICA YANKOWSKI Borough Historian Jack Jeandron (l) and Historical Society President Bill Longo stand outside of the Steamboat Dock Museum in Keyport on Monday. KEYPORT — To the delight of its members, the Keyport Historical Society is alive and kicking, 30 years after it all…
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Pallone comes out against Hook plan
Staff Writer By GLORIA STRAVELLI FARRAH MAFFAI Sharon Burnham, executive director of the Monmouth Conservation Foundation, Middletown, takes her turn at the microphone at a public hearing at Sandy Hook’s Post Theater Saturday on the proposed adaptive reuse development of Fort Hancock. A last-minute effort by state Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D) may keep the…
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Letters and manure prompt investigation
Chief can’t comment; more charges coming from force By elaine van develde Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — You are what you see — horse manure. That was the salient message of separate scathing letters packaged with piles of horse excrement and sent to four township police officers. The mailings prompted the four officers on the receiving…
