Category: Independent News

  • 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…

  • Parents, board angry at councils’ cuts to budget Board president says Aberdeen should stop new development

    Staff Writer By alison granito Parents, board angry at councils’ cuts to budget Board president says Aberdeen should stop new development ABERDEEN — Although the community at large voted the school budget down by a 2-to-1 margin, some parents reacted to the cuts to the $46.7 million school budget with anger at the loss of…

  • Matawan may raise sewer rates

    Staff WriterOfficials say hike would be first in over 10 years By alison granito Staff Writer Officials say hike would be first in over 10 years MATAWAN — According to borough officials, a raise in rates may be necessary in order to keep the town from losing money and running a deficit on sewer services.…

  • Committee hires private attorney to prosecute Wall Wall files ethics charges against three Holmdel officials

    Staff Writer By darlene diebold Committee hires private attorney to prosecute Wall Wall files ethics charges against three Holmdel officials HOLMDEL — In a 2-1 vote with two abstentions, the Township Committee last week voted to hire Hazlet attorney Michael Pappa to prosecute charges against a township committeeman. Pappa was authorized to prosecute charges filed…

  • Fire puts strip plaza out of commission

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde MIDDLETOWN — In what was deemed an after-hours electrical blaze by fire and police officials, a Route 35 hair salon was gutted, while neighboring stores suffered smoke damage. Although all the stores were temporarily closed immediately following the fire, owners reported that they would open as soon as conditions…

  • Councils walk out of board meeting Township, borough cut $914K from Mat-Ab budget

    Staff Writer By alison granito Councils walk out of board meeting Township, borough cut $914K from Mat-Ab budget A meeting last week at which the Matawan and Aberdeen town councils were slated to present their proposed cuts to the Matawan-Aberdeen Regional Board of Education quickly degenerated into a public shouting match among angry municipal and…