Category: Independent News

  • 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…

  • Open house, public meeting at Sandy Hook June 1

    The National Park Service will hold an open house and public meeting June 1 at the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area to discuss plans for the rehabilitation and adaptive use of the historic buildings at Fort Hancock. Activities will be held at the Fort Hancock Post theater. An open house to allow…

  • Nobel winner speaks to Satz School students

    Staff Writer By darlene diebold PHOTOS BY JERRY WOLKOWITZ During a visit with students from William R. Satz School in Holmdel, Bob Wilson, a Nobel Prize winner in physics, explains some of his 1960s and 1970s research on the big-bang theory. Behind him is a photo of him and co-prize winner Arno Penzias, standing by…

  • Middletown chief of police issues safety warnings

    Beth Anne and Ken Pardue and their 21/2-year-old twins, Zachary and Mackai, enjoy a revival of Keyport’s Memorial Day parade Sunday. VERONICA YANKOWSKI Middletown Police Chief John F. Pollinger has announced that all police patrols will be conducting vigorous enforcement action against underage drinkers. Pollinger wishes to remind all parents and teen-agers that strict enforcement…

  • Dems to pick between candidates in primary

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde HAZLET — Despite varying political postures within the same party, voters will decide June 4 who, of two choices, will be the township’s Democratic candidate. The polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. at all the regular polling places in the township where voters can cast…