Category: Independent News

  • Lunch is served at Arc’s Long Branch center

    Expanded menu makes Opportunity Knocks Café a popular lunch spot BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer The Opportunity Knocks Café offers a lunch spot and job training at The Arc of Monmouth Work Opportunity Center in Long Branch. Seth Kaplan works as cashier at the café. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff LONG BRANCH — Fridays at the…

  • Bayshore towns propose joint court system

    Hazlet, Matawan and Keyport will abolish municipal courts BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI & MIKE DAVIS Staff Writers Hazlet Township and the boroughs of Matawan and Keyport have each introduced ordinances at the Sept. 20 meetings of their governing bodies that would establish a cost-saving joint court system. The ordinances would abolish each of the towns’ municipal…

  • Sylvia’s Children builds an ‘oasis of hope’

    Nonprofit provides education, medical care for Ugandan children BYMIKE DAVIS Staff Writer Students at the Mbiriizi Advanced Primary School in Uganda line up at mealtime. There’s nothing like getting off that bus. Sylvia Allen — alone or with anywhere from five to 15 volunteers — gets off the bus five times a year, the end…

  • The wisdom of Elie Wiesel, teacher and student

    Nobel Prize winner discusses ethics and politics BYMIKE DAVIS Staff Writer Elie Wiesel OCEAN TOWNSHIP — Like any good teacher, Elie Wiesel openly admits that he’s still a student. Even if he didn’t mention it during his Sept. 18 lecture at Congregation Torat El in Oakhurst, it was easily noticeable in the very manner of…

  • Auto show to benefit Blind Citizens Assoc.

    MIDDLETOWN — For the sixth year running, volunteers from the Middletown Lions Club will host the annual Auto Show & Motorcycle Meet on Saturday, Oct. 8 (rain date Oct. 9) to benefit the New Jersey Blind Citizens Association (NJBCA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of the blind and visually impaired. This year’s…

  • Suspect arrested in car theft

    MIDDLETOWN — Police are looking for a man involved with the theft of an automobile in Belford. According to a press release from the Middletown Police Department, a Belford man observed an Elizabeth woman allegedly steal a 2010 Audi parked in his driveway. The suspect was allegedly dropped off by a green Range Rover, previously…

  • Holmdel appoints new administrator

    BYMIKE DAVIS Staff Writer HOLMDEL — After more than a year without a chief administrative officer, the Township Committee appointed Andrew Katz to serve as Holmdel’s township administrator at a salary of $115,000, effective Sept. 30. “We did an extensive search with the Township Committee,” said Mayor Patrick Impreveduto. “Mr. Katz was one of the…

  • ‘NJ: The State of Invention’ at library branches

    Throughout October, the Monmouth County Library will host “NJ: The State of Invention” programs and events at all 13 library branches as part of the library’s continuing initiative to promote science literacy. Learn about the first computer, the ENIAC, and the women who programmed it. Discover the historic roles Bell Labs, Camp Evans and the…

  • stork club 

    Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank,announces the following births:Aug. 29, a girl to Jessica and MichaelAgostinacchio of Middletown.Aug. 29, a girl to Amanda Vashey andDante Finley of Port Monmouth.Aug. 29, a girl to Jacqueline Szlepcsikand Michael Niedbala of Middletown.Aug. 31, a girl to Michelle and GregoryWilk of Aberdeen.