Category: Independent News

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Bus collision is still under investigation

    Staff Writer By ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Bus collision is still under investigation MIDDLETOWN — The looks of a Route 35 accident last week that left a car totaled and a bus straddling a median were a bit deceiving, according to authorities. Middletown Police Traffic Supervisor Frederick Henry said Tuesday, "Usually when an accident looks as…

  • Cell phone ban seen as raising public awareness Marlboro has issued 130 tickets since law took effect in April ’01

    Cell phone ban seen as raising public awareness Marlboro has issued 130 tickets since law took effect in April ’01 MARLBORO — Flipping through stack upon stack of news clippings, Stephanie Luftglass reminisced about a time when the national spotlight shined on Marlboro. As the fifth municipality in the United States to undertake the task…

  • Councils face public on board meeting walkout Resident turns out to videotape Aberdeen council meeting

    Staff Writer By alison granito Councils face public on board meeting walkout Resident turns out to videotape Aberdeen council meeting Municipal officials in Aberdeen and Matawan faced the public fallout at their respective public meetings last week from their decision to walk out of a televised school board meeting held earlier this month. The Aberdeen…

  • Mat-Ab appeals council cuts to school budget School officials say cuts were too deep to sustain

    Staff Writer By alison granito Mat-Ab appeals council cuts to school budget School officials say cuts were too deep to sustain ABERDEEN — According to Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District officials, the proposed cuts to the budget are too deep for the district to accept. The Board of Education started the process of appealing the $914,300…

  • Hazlet goes ahead with hands-on cell phone ban Emergency service personnel allowed to continue use

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde Hazlet goes ahead with hands-on cell phone ban Emergency service personnel allowed to continue use HAZLET — Keep your hands off your cell phone and drive. That’s now Hazlet law — a law that officials vowed to beat the state to the punch with and did. The decision came…