Category: Independent News

  • Middletown committee approves 2 contracts

    The Middletown Township Committee recently approved two awards of contract. A contract for $142,800 was awarded to Sodon’s Electric, Atlantic Highlands, to install emergency generators at the Middletown Township Senior Center, Croydon Hall, and at town hall, located on Kings Highway. The generators will be used to provide electrical power during outages. All American Print…

  • Quadruplets prepare to enter school

    The Prevost quadruplets, Joseph, Brian, Stephen and Joshua, enjoy the last few days of summer — and freedom as they prepare to enter kindergarten in September. MARIE ORTIZ

  • Crow count up to 28; no new spraying planned 16 more crows test positive for West Nile virus in Monmouth

    Staff Writer By cindy tietjen Crow count up to 28; no new spraying planned 16 more crows test positive for West Nile virus in Monmouth HOLMDEL — Although additional crows have been found in Monmouth County, officials are still optimistic that last week’s adulticide spraying helped in the fight against the West Nile virus. The…

  • Middletown foundation plans Campaign for Perpetuity

    Middletown foundation plans Campaign for Perpetuity The Middletown Township Educa-tion Foundation will launch a major fund-raising initiative — The Campaign for Perpetuity — in September. The foundation hopes to substantially increase donations to reach $500,000 by 2005. "The intent of the campaign is to bolster our investments so we are less dependent on the success…

  • Holmdel concerned about possible aerial application Mosquito Commission head says no date is set and material is harmless to humans

    Staff Writer By cindy tietjen Holmdel concerned about possible aerial application Mosquito Commission head says no date is set and material is harmless to humans HOLMDEL — With the threat of the West Nile virus spreading to this area, officials are taking every precaution. Last week the county conducted ground adulticide spraying throughout Keansburg and…

  • Wind Surfing

    Wind surfers enjoy some great weather Saturday off Sandy Hook. JEFF HUNTLEY

  • Battle against ocean dumping intensifies

    Eight-day 100-mile march concludes at 2 p.m. Friday on Sandy Hook By marilyn duff Staff Writer Ocean advocates went to work last week to halt the renewed dumping of dredged materials off the Jersey Shore and got a boost from Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.). Thousands of marchers were expected to join an eight-day, hundred-mile protest…

  • New look coming to old Main Street building

    Staff Writer By paul dowd PAUL DOWD Tom Lyons navigates his way on the scaffold while working on the former Sandford Drugs building on the corner of Main and Little streets in Matawan. MATAWAN — Residents may have noticed lately that one of the borough’s best known buildings, the former Sandford Drugstore, is getting a…

  • SAND IN A BOTTLE —

    Devin Stypa, 7, of Rumson, waits for a cork after filling her bottle with different colors of sand at the 25th annual Monmouth County Friends of Clearwater festival Sunday at Sandy Hook. JEFF HUNTLEY