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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…

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…

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…

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…

Staff Writer By alison granito Hazlet administrator will replace Klavon Quinn to jump to Matawan-Aberdeen district in August Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School Dis-trict officials chose to stick close to home in their choice for a new school superintendent. The school board voted last week to appoint Matawan resident Bruce Quinn, who is currently serving as an…

VERONICA YANKOWSKI Jim Biegen and his daughter, Neshani, 3, watch the Memorial Day parade down West Front Street in Keyport Sunday.

about Rte. 520 widening plan Public meeting scheduled for June 6 at Brookdale C.C. By elaine van develde Staff Writer It was designed to help, but a contingent of Lincroft residents thinks the recommendations that came with a county-solicited Route 520 study will hurt the community if not altered. Those residents are known as the…

VERONICA YANKOWSKI Sporting an American flag in her collar, Roxie the boxer enjoys the Keyport Memorial Day parade Sunday.

Staff Writer By darlene diebold JERRY WOLKOWITZ Bill Foster, owner of Feigenson’s Shoes, Keyport, is proud of selling “comfort shoes for the whole family.” KEYPORT — There’s no business like the shoe business, and after 43 years in the business, Bill Foster knows that all too well. Feigenson’s Shoes has been a Keyport staple since…