Category: Independent News

  • Alliance aims to expand improvement district

    Staff Writer By darlene diebold Alliance aims to expand improvement district KEYPORT — Officials of the Keyport Business Alliance, which runs the borough’s Business Improvement District (BID), are hoping to expand the district to include all of the borough’s commercial properties. Buoyed by the BID’s success, alliance President Jeff Fink and business advocate Kathaleen Shaw…

  • Historic Christ Church celebrating 300 years Series of events planned with sister congregations

    Staff Writer By ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Historic Christ Church celebrating 300 years Series of events planned with sister congregations VERONICA YANKOWSKI The Rev. Dean Henry, seen here at the church altar, looks forward to celebrating his church’s past. MIDDLETOWN — Christ Church’s missionary venture for the last 300 years has been to preach the "good…

  • County panel approves vocational school work

    Staff Writer By dick metzgar FREEHOLD — One group of Monmouth County officials has approved the final three years of a five-year capital spending plan being completed by the Monmouth County Vocational School District. Following a discussion of the long-range facility plan and capital projects at a special meeting of the Board of School Estimate…

  • Holmdel Half Century Club boasts over 200 members

    Staff Writer By darlene diebold VERONICA YANKOWSKI Outgoing President Agnes King talks about Holmdel Half Century Club activities. HOLMDEL — Since its inception as a way for people to meet in the rural township in the late 1960s, the Holmdel Half Century Club has been a social club, offering seniors a chance to meet and…

  • Crystal Lake plan continued to Feb. 6

    Crystal Lake plan continued to Feb. 6 VERONICA YANKOWSKI The Islamic Society of Monmouth County’s new mosque at 496 Red Hill Road in Middletown, just south of Garden State Parkway Exit 114, is beginning to take shape. The township Planning Board approved the plans in 1999. Aberdeen mayor says application ‘sloppily put together’ By alison…

  • Commuter lot part of plans for Exit 114 County, Highway Authority signed off on agreement a year ago

    Staff Writer By darlene diebold Commuter lot part of plans for Exit 114 County, Highway Authority signed off on agreement a year ago HOLMDEL — Questions are being raised about what will really be happening around Garden State Parkway Exit 114 in Holmdel and Middletown. For years now, people have known that changes are coming,…

  • Municipal building a sore spot for some Mayor says choice to

    Municipal building a sore spot for some Mayor says choice to condemn is wise; hearing pushed to Feb. 8 By elaine van develde Staff Writer HAZLET — When it comes to one vacant 2.39-acre piece of land slated to house a long-awaited new municipal complex, it’s not just the benefit of the project’s location that’s…

  • Some movement in teacher talks

    Mediator to hold public hearing at 9 a.m. Saturday By alison granito Staff Writer Although the Middle-town Township Education Association (MTEA) accepted pieces of a Dec. 19 proposal offered by the Board of Education, a settlement on the major stumbling blocks of health benefits and salary issues remains elusive. In a statement last week, the…

  • Horse-racing groups are worried about purse cut Thoroughbred industry optimistic McGreevey will restore funding

    Correspondent By jane meggitt Horse-racing groups are worried about purse cut Thoroughbred industry optimistic McGreevey will restore funding On his final day in office, former acting Gov. Donald DiFrancesco cut the horse-racing purse supplement by two-thirds, from $18 million in 2001 to $6 million this year. Last year, the thoroughbred industry received $11.7 million, which…