Category: Independent News

  • Grover House to benefit from $278K state grant Middletown budgeted $260,000 last year to restore historic house

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde Grover House to benefit from $278K state grant Middletown budgeted $260,000 last year to restore historic house MIDDLETOWN — The township’s 250-year-old Grover House will soon be the beneficiary of better looks and sounder structure with the assistance of a state grant. The house, which dates back to 1750,…

  • FASHIONS GONE BY —

    At the Holmdel Historical Society’s Historical Fashion Show Sunday, Sue Quincannon of Holmdel, in a presentation from her collection of 19th and early 20th century fashions, displays a 1920s chemise flapper dress. Below Maureen Newell, of Colts Neck, examines a beaver hat as her sister Clare Palanara, of Atlantic Highlands, looks on. MARIE ORTIZ

  • Cocaine seizure leads to more task force arrests

    HAZLET — The arrest of a Middlesex County man for allegedly attempting to sell cocaine led to the apprehension of several other area men, according to the Bayshore Narcotics Task Force. Julio Alberto Disla, 29, Perth Amboy, was arrested on Oct. 23 in Hazlet as he was allegedly attempting to sell cocaine to an undercover…

  • Atty. hired to help town center fight Azzolina says residents should stop prejudging his plan

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde Atty. hired to help town center fight Azzolina says residents should stop prejudging his plan The group Concerned Citizens of Middletown is more than just concerned about Azzolina Land Corp.’s plans to build a town center in Middletown. The organization is hiring experts to help halt the proposal. As…

  • Flocking together may be problem for crows 14 of 16 crows in experiment die from West Nile virus

    Staff Writer By lindsey siegle Flocking together may be problem for crows 14 of 16 crows in experiment die from West Nile virus It turns out that a mosquito bite isn’t the only way for West Nile virus to be transmitted, at least among crows. Results of a recent experiment conducted by the United States…

  • County signs ferry contract

    Contract with N.Y. Waterways calls for service to start in April-July 2002 By cindy tietjen Staff Writer The long-awaited $9.5 million Belford ferry project now has an operator. Last week Monmouth County signed a contract with Port Imperial Ferry Company (PIFC), which operates New York Waterways, to be the prime operator of the Bayshore Ferry…

  • More than a flight of fancy Rumson pilot restoring plane in hopes of re-creating Amelia Earhart’s journey

    Staff Writer By linda denicola More than a flight of fancy Rumson pilot restoring plane in hopes of re-creating Amelia Earhart’s journey JERRY WOLKOWITZ Grace McGuire checks the curvature of her antique twin-engine plane at the Old Bridge Airport hanger where she is restoring it. What Amelia Earhart started, Grace McGuire plans to finish. McGuire…

  • Veterans parade

    Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 226, U.S. 1870 Calvary participate in VFW Post No. 2179’s Veterans Day Parade Sunday in Middletown. Veterans Day is this Saturday. MARIE ORTIZ

  • Aviator’s Electra L-10E among the last of its kind

    JERRY WOLKOWITZ Sixteen years after she bought it in 1984 (r), Grace McGuire’s twin-engine Electra L-10E is almost completely restored and ready for takeoff. There was a reverence for flight back in 1937 when Amelia Earhart at age 40 made her second attempt to fly around the world. Flying was dangerous and most people had…