Category: Independent News

  • Market plan draws fire Holmdel official expresses outrage over Arts Center proposal By cindy tietjen HOLMDEL — Township Committee members expressed strong disagreement Monday during a debate over a proposed open air market at the PNC Bank Arts Center. In the end, Mayor Gary Aumiller, who favors the market, said, "I think the best thing…

  • Cleanup, treatment set to start at Shadow Lake By Doug mckenzie MIDDLETOWN — One of the township’s most popular fishing holes will be the site of a cleanup this spring. The Township Committee last week approved a contract to hire Allied Biological of Hackettstown to hydrorake Shadow Lake for 15 days and to treat it…

  • Latest Keyport project is strictly for the birds Resident’s concern sparks construction of 18-foot osprey tower DOUG McKENZIE This osprey tower was recently constructed at Veteran’s Park in Keyport as part of the borough’s effort to attract the rare birds, which are reportedly making a comeback throughout the state. By doug mckenzie KEYPORT — The…

  • Middletown administrator to replace Trocchia in Matawan Mayor breaks tie, calls borough lucky By paul dowd J oseph Leo, the soon-to-depart Middletown town-ship administrator, will move his desk to Matawan. Matawan Borough Adminis-trator Dominick Trocchia was relieved of his duties at last week’s Borough Council meeting after less than a year of service. The new…

  • Nut Swamp School Jenny Vallencourt (l), 10, and Alessandra Pollare, 11, both fifth-graders at Nut Swamp School in Middletown, try to piece together a tepee during the school’s Art Happening program Thursday. JERRY WOLKOWITZ

  • Suspect charged in Brookdale threats Computer trail leads to 21-year-old campus student By doug mckenzie A dministrators at Brook-dale Community College in Lincroft are hopeful that the school’s classes and programs will not face any further interruptions following last week’s arrest of a Spring Lake Heights man in connection with at least two recent bomb…

  • Keyport OKs business district, town budgets Municipal tax remains flat; first-year BID budget is $47,000 By Doug mckenzie KEYPORT— Noting that the borough is in "good financial shape," Borough Council members unanimously adopted the 2000 municipal budget last week, which means that residents will not see a rise in taxes for the fifth year in…

  • Elks seek donations for WW II memorial To assist with the construction of the national World War II memorial to honor those Americans who served overseas and on the home front, members of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks nationwide are seeking donations from its membership. Congress approved legislation authorizing the building in 1993. The…

  • Shadow Lake Shadow Lake, seen here at Stevenson Park in Middletown, is getting a spring cleaning. DOUG McKENZIE