Category: Independent News

  • Great Race to benefit families of WTC victims

    Correspondent By mary dempsey MIDDLETOWN — The community will join forces next month in an effort to help local families of those missing in the Sept. 11 World Trade Center terrorist attack. Organizers of Middletown Township Education Foundation’s The Great Race are planning to donate all the proceeds from the Oct. 20 event to help…

  • Volunteers sought for county response team Hazardous Materials group focuses on bioterrorism, weapons of mass destruction

    Staff Writer By linda denicola Volunteers sought for county response team Hazardous Materials group focuses on bioterrorism, weapons of mass destruction The Monmouth County Health Department’s Hazardous Material Response team (HazMat) decontaminated about 1,000 people that terror-filled Tuesday that turned the World Trade Center into another Pompeii. The frightened evacuees came in from downtown New…

  • Bias called simple case of ignorance, arrogance Muslims, others face new hostility in aftermath of WTC attack

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde Bias called simple case of ignorance, arrogance Muslims, others face new hostility in aftermath of WTC attack The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 stunned some of other cultures into a state of fear that flag-waving patriotism laced with all the good intentions in the world could turn into a…

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ Students in Mary Ellen Dolinick’s fourth-grade class at Ravine Drive School in Matawan drop pennies destined for the American Red Cross into a collection jar Friday.

  • Registration deadline for gymnastics Sept. 28

    Registration deadline for gymnastics Sept. 28 The Hazlet Recreation Commission will hold gymnastics for girls and boys Monday and Wednesday evenings beginning Oct. 1. Cost for the 16-week program is $55, and classes will be at Cove Road School, Hazlet. One-hour classes will be given as follows: students age 6-8, 5:40 p.m.; girls age 6-8…

  • America Recovers Photos

    America Recovers Photos JERRY WOLKOWITZ Volunteers load supplies onto a SeaStreak Ferry at the Highlands Marina Thursday bound for ground zero in Manhattan. At right, Raritan High School student Stephanie Coonan pins a red ribbon on classmate Scott Laudati. JERRY WOLKOWITZ During a rendition of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA,” participants at a Sunday…

  • Mid’town contingent responds to hot spot 24 provided support soon after tragedy struck

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde Mid’town contingent responds to hot spot 24 provided support soon after tragedy struck JERRY WOLKOWITZ In Highlands volunteers load supplies onto a SeaStreak ferry for delivery to the World Trade Center disaster area in lower Manhattan. In the wake of the World Trade Center terrorist attack and tragedy, the…

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ In the wake of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center disaster, candlelight vigils were held in several area towns over the weekend. Here a woman takes part in a vigil Sunday evening at Beach Park in Keyport, where the twin towers used to be visible across the bay.

  • Area police on high alert; no tolerance for bias, they say

    Area police on high alert; no tolerance for bias, they say In Middletown bias incident, a man donated blood, then assaulted gas station attendant By elaine van develde Staff Writer Area police are committed to making certain that a national tragedy won’t turn into local hate crime mayhem of any proportion. The message: Intolerance will…