Category: Independent News
-

Hazlet sending 8 teams to Odyssey of the Mind finals Two-day trip fund-raiser set for this weekend at Middle Road School
Staff Writer By ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Hazlet sending 8 teams to Odyssey of the Mind finals Two-day trip fund-raiser set for this weekend at Middle Road School HAZLET — They won big, and they’re going to the world finals. That’s what happened when Hazlet students competed in the Odyssey of the Mind 2002 state competition…
-

Dronne, Pascucci back in the GOP primary race
Staff Writer By darlene diebold Dronne, Pascucci back in the GOP primary race HOLMDEL — Although there was a challenge to their petition, Deputy Mayor Russell Dronne, 48, 76 E. Main St., and former Board of Education member Rocco Pascucci, 24 Yellow Brook Road, will be on the June 4 Republican primary ballot. Now, the…
-

Salary guides onlArbitrator rules on
Salary guides onlArbitrator rules on insurance contributiony remaining issue in contract settlement By alison granito Staff Writer After months of turmoil, one of the final two major road blocks preventing the Middletown Board of Education and the Middletown Township Education Association (MTEA) from reaching a signed teachers’ contract has finally been removed. Mediator Ronald J.…
-

Photo
VERONICA YANKOWSKI Kristen Berger, 9, of Middletown blows bubbles from a strawberry container at the Poricy Park Family Day in Middletown Sunday.
-

Jeans for Teens helps outfit the less fortunate Program donates wares collected at local high schools to homeless teens in Newark
Staff Writer By alison granito Jeans for Teens helps outfit the less fortunate Program donates wares collected at local high schools to homeless teens in Newark JERRY WOLKOWITZ Barbara Kenas, Matawan, holds up one of many pairs of jeans donated by local high school students to her Jeans for Teens program. The donations go to…
-

Leonardo the focus of latest pictorial history book
Staff Writer By elaine van develde The new Leonardo book includes a photo of famous local sculptor Donald DeLue’s monument of the Alamo brigade. Gone but not forgotten are the nooks and "cronies" of Middletown’s Leonardo section. In fact, they’re memorialized in a historical picture book. The book, simply titled Leonardo, is part of the…
-

Police memorial gets new home at town hall
Staff Writer By elaine van develde PHOTOS BY VERONICA YANKOWSKI The Middletown police memorial was originally located across the street from Community Church in Port Monmouth. MIDDLETOWN — Few realized that the police had a memorial to deceased officers nestled in a park next to the Port Monmouth Community Church on Main Street, Port Monmouth.…
-

Bayshore ER nurse receives NJENA award
Bayshore Community Hospital nurse Noreen Schifano (l) nominated Wendy E. Brown (r), Bayshore director of nursing, for the Leadership Award from the New Jersey State Emergency Nurses Association. The New Jersey State Emergency Nurses Association (NJENA) recently presented its Leadership Award to Wendy E. Brown, director of nursing at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. The award…
-

Parent group wants to change funding formula Fears soaring taxes, failed budgets in middle-income schools districts
Staff Writer By alison granito Parent group wants to change funding formula Fears soaring taxes, failed budgets in middle-income schools districts HAZLET — With rising property tax rates and state funding to schools being cut, the Organization of Parent Taxpayers (OPT) has banded together to fight what they say is an unfair system. The organization’s…
