Category: Independent News
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Soaring at Saint Leo’s
Madeline Defelice enjoys one of the rides at the Saint Leo the Great Carnival in the Lincroft section of Middletown on June 13. LAUREN CASSELBERRY
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Their ‘Best Day’ is riding a wave
Camp offers fourth summer of surfing, water sports BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer Above: Brandon Kane, Freehold Township, is ready to catch a wave with the help of a volunteer at Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park on June 12 during Best Day at the Beach, a program that makes it possible for youths with special needs to…
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Photo contest to capture five decades of open space preservation
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but how many pictures would it take to capture the beauty of preserving 650,000 acres of open space and parks in New Jersey over the past 50 years? That’s the challenge the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is putting into the shutter-happy hands of residents and…
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Girl Scouts from Hazlet, Keansburg, Middletown and other areas of Monmouth County learn the science of bubbles during Girl Scout Science Night at Raritan High School in Hazlet on June 1. More than 40 Scouts enjoyed a Piccirillo Sciencetelling show, learned about energy conservation from Project Porchlight and watched demonstrations by the Hazlet Girl Scout…
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Outcry over DEP plans to extend sewers in Holmdel
BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer HOLMDEL — Township officials are weighing their options to counter the state’s plans to extend sewer lines to the Alcatel-Lucent and PNC Bank Arts Center sites in Holmdel Township. The concern, Holmdel Mayor Patrick Impreveduto said, is that the new sewer lines will spur development and have a negative impact…
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Christie to HUD: Approve fort plan
BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer OCEANPORT — Gov. Chris Christie has joined a growing chorus of state officials ratcheting up the pressure on Washington to approve the Fort Monmouth redevelopment plan. In a letter addressed to Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Christie calls for the agency to…
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Fort Hancock buildings continue to deteriorate
NPS preparing new management plan for historic base BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent SANDY HOOK — Change is coming again to historic Fort Hancock as the National Park Service prepares to release a Draft General Management Plan due to be made public this fall. The plan will outline a proposal to preserve the buildings at the…
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Victory is sweet for area bakers in ‘Dessert Wars’
Hundreds turn out to sample, witness battle of the batters BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer Contact Daniel Howley at [email protected]. Dessert lovers sample confections created by local bakeries for “Dessert Wars,” a bakery competition held May 24 at Branches in West Long Branch. ERIC SUCAR staff WEST LONG BRANCH — It was a battle to…
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Matawan to restrict use of boro vehicles
Council to vote on ending take-home privileges for most employees on June 21 BY DANIEL HOWLEY Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000253 EndHTML:0000008285 StartFragment:0000003117 EndFragment:0000008249 SourceURL:file://localhost/Volumes/Editorial/%20%20TUES%20PAPERS-Tri-Town,%20Indy,%20EB,%20Sub/INDEPENDENT%20RAW/Mat%20vehicles%2018.2%22%206.23dh MATAWAN — With fuel prices at just under $4 a gallon, the Matawan Borough Council is mulling a proposal to restrict take-home use of municipal vehicles by borough employees. The measure would bar…
