Category: Independent News

  • Memorial is planned for WTC victims

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde MIDDLETOWN — They will remember. That’s what the Township Committee is counting on — a form of permanent remembrance for its mourning community, and for the residents whose loved ones were victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America. In a move to honor 34 residents who lost…

  • WTC widow doesn’t want her three children to hate Matthew Picerno of Holmdel loved life, the outdoors and autumn

    Staff Writer By darlene diebold WTC widow doesn’t want her three children to hate Matthew Picerno of Holmdel loved life, the outdoors and autumn Petrina and Matthew Picerno at their wine school in Jersey City last year. HOLMDEL — When terrorists flew two airplanes into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, no one knew…

  • Matawan-Freehold RR added to Transit study County park system proceeding with trail project on abandoned rail line right of way

    Staff Writer By marilyn duff Matawan-Freehold RR added to Transit study County park system proceeding with trail project on abandoned rail line right of way The old Freehold to Mata-wan/Aberdeen railroad route has been added to a study of a potential route for the long-touted but controversial Middlesex-Ocean-Monmouth rail line. Based on current data, NJ…

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    VERONICA YANKOWSKI Making their way through a corn maze at A. Casola Farms in Holmdel Saturday, Eileen and Nick Aragona of Staten Island, N.Y., were among the many young people attracted to Halloween displays in our area.

  • Judge invalidates open space ordinance Peskoe rules changes conflict with state land use law

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde Judge invalidates open space ordinance Peskoe rules changes conflict with state land use law Astate Superior Court judge just closed the door on the Middletown’s new idea of open space. The township is expected to appeal, however. Last winter — Feb. 20, to be exact — the Middletown Town-ship…

  • Borough and PBA raise money for WTC victims

    Matawan Relief Fund will collect until Nov. 1 By Alison Granito Staff Writer MATAWAN — The borough’s efforts to collect donations on behalf of the families of four Matawan residents lost Sept. 11 will continue until Nov. 1. Mayor Robert Clifton said the borough started the fund to address the tough circumstances many of the…

  • Bank robbed at gunpoint

    Staff Writer By Alison Granito ABERDEEN — A white man in his 30s robbed Columbia Savings Bank on Route 34 and Lloyd Road last week. According to the police report, at 10:36 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 17 an unidentified man pointed a black handgun at a teller, handed her a yellow plastic bag and demanded…

  • Bay waters to reopen to shellfish harvesting 5,425 acres to be upgraded from prohibited to ‘special restricted status’

    Bay waters to reopen to shellfish harvesting 5,425 acres to be upgraded from prohibited to ‘special restricted status’ VERONICA YANKOWSKI Charlie Confessore, 15 months, of Harrison sits in a pumpkin patch at A. Casola Farms in Holmdel on Saturday. Shell fishing is a sustenance of Bayshore industry; in fact, by Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)…

  • Hazlet eying three sites for town hall

    Middle Rd. facility has structural, other problems By elaine van develde Staff Writer Round and round plans for a Hazlet municipal complex go, and where it’ll end up nobody seems to know. Township Committee members thought they had the answer to a 10-year-old dilemma a few months ago. But now it looks as if a…