Category: Independent News

  • Hazlet awaits state OK of $18.8M 2011 budget

    BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer HAZLET — The Township Committee deferred adopting its $18.8 million budget as it awaits state approval. The 2011 budget, $230,674 less than the 2010 budget, results in a tax levy of $13.2 million and a $78.11 increase in municipal taxes per year for a home assessed at the township average…

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    Sailor Andria Cooney poses with Girl Scouts who presented her with cookies to share with shipmates. The two Holmdel Girl Scout troops, Daisy Troop 41 and Junior Troop 1874, “adopted” Cooney, who is serving in the U.S. Navy and based in Seattle, to receive the troops’ “Gift of Caring” cookies. These are cookies that people…

  • ‘A Family Portrait’

    Regina Yarosh James Yarosh marks his return to painting with an exhibit in the windows of the Art Alliance of Monmouth County gallery in Red Bank. The window display will run through May 29 at theArtAlliance, located at 33 Monmouth St. The themes of this month’s Art Alliance show are “Hats & Shoes” and “Children’sArt”…

  • Trainer excited about Kentucky Derby prospects

    Kelly Breen’s 3-year-old Pants On Fire won $1M Louisiana Derby BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Kelly Breen, who has twice been the leading trainer at Monmouth Park, Oceanport, trained Pants On Fire, a horse that will race in the 2011 Kentucky Derby on May 7. Breen, who lives in Farmingdale and hails from Old Bridge,…

  • Judge orders stay on wind turbine plans

    Injunction temporarily delays hearing on BRSA application BY KAITLYN D. KANZLER Staff Writer HAZLET— Plans for the 380-foot-tall 1.5-megawatt wind turbine in Union Beach were put on hold last week when Judge Mary Cuff of theAppellate Division granted a stay of a ruling by state Superior Court. The Superior Court ruling had directed the Union…

  • Solar farm approved for Holmdel

    18K ground-mounted panels will track sun’s movement BY KAITLYN D. KANZLER Staff Writer HOLMDEL — The township’s first solar farm will be constructed on farmland along Holmdel Road after the Holmdel Zoning Board approved an application for a 4.8-megawatt solar field on April 27. Applicant OCI Solar Power LLC/ CornerStone Holmdel LLC submitted an application…

  • ‘Soundstage’ musical event to aid autistic children

    Benefit set for Saturday at Bar A in Lake Como BYAMY ROSEN Staff Writer Alicia Madison Greater Media Newspapers is once again reaching out to help the public in a charitable way, and all its dedicated readers are invited to be a part of it Saturday, May 7, when “Soundstage” comes to Bar Anticipation in…

  • Mission Matawan helps homeowners

    MATAWAN — Mission Matawan is accepting applications from members of the greater Matawan-Aberdeen community who need assistance in repairing and maintaining their homes for its 2011 program. Mission Matawan will run from June 25 through July 2. Now in its ninth year, Mission Matawan provides a helping hand to the elderly, handicapped and others who…

  • Community ties pay dividends for Riverview

    $6.5M in donations fund new surgical wing BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer Riverview Medical Center President Tim Hogan (l-r), David Flood, president of Meridian Health Foundation, John Lloyd, president, Meridian Health, pose with donors Joan and Robert Rechnitz, George Kolber and Domenic DiPiero. RED BANK — Several substantial donations have given Riverview Medical Center the…