Category: Independent News

  • A win for Earth Day

    Everett Stroz, of Middletown, jumps up for a slam dunk at The Wide World of Recycled Sports, one of the activities at the Monmouth County Park System’s Earth Day celebration held April 17 at the Huber Woods Environmental Center in Middletown. FRANK GALIPO

  • Brookdale trustees OK legal action against Burnham

    College CFO also faulted, placed on unpaid leave BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer A fter reviewing the audit of the president’s office, the Brookdale Community College board of trustees approved legal action against former President Peter Burnham to recover monies due to the college, at itsApril 14 meeting on the Lincroft campus. The charges against…

  • American Littoral Society celebrates Earth Day

    Students, volunteers plant beachgrass at Sandy Hook BY Kaitlyn Kanzler Staff Writer Damien Font (l-r), Hannah Doerr and other volunteers from Middletown Village School brave the inclement weather to plant American beachgrass on a dune during the American Littoral Society’s sixth annual Sandy Hook Beachgrass Planting held April 16. As a volunteer planting beachgrass, Andrew…

  • ‘Women Who Cook 2’ concert slated for May

    ‘W omen Who Cook 2: In Concert” will be presented at 8 p.m. May 7 at the Middletown Arts Center, 36 Church St., Middletown (located next to the Middletown Train Station). The show will feature the only area appearance of the Deanna Bogart Band. Sharing the stage with Bogart will be the Alexis P. Suter…

  • Wool Days at Holmes-Hendrickson House

    The Monmouth County Historical Association (MCHA) will present its annual family program known as “Wool Days” at its Holmdel site, the Holmes-Hendrickson House, noon- 3 p.m. Saturday, April 23. Wool Days is held in cooperation with the spring sheep shearing at neighboring Longstreet Farm. Visitors to Holmes-Hendrickson House will be able to try their hand…

  • Advocates slam new beach access rules

    BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer Local beach advocates’ worst-case scenario might come true in the next year if a proposed set of new beach-access regulations is approved by the state. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) released a set of proposed beach-access rules on April 4, and John Weber, Surfrider Foundation Northeast regional manager,…

  • Notice to Greater Media Newspapers classified advertising customers

     APRIL 15 — To individual classified advertising customers of Greater Media Newspapers: The only time Greater Media Newspapers asks for your credit card information is when you call our office to place a classified advertisement. We apologize to anyone who has received a telephone call this week from an individual claiming to be from Greater Media…

  • Blood drive honors injured firefighter

    Central Jersey Blood Center (CJBC) encourages residents of Highlands and neighboring communities to donate blood in honor of Firefighter Jason Fazio, who went into a fire in Asbury Park on Jan. 10, the morning of his 41st birthday. After being engulfed in a flash fire, he was forced to jump out of a two-story window,…

  • Photo

    Fourth-grader Patrick Bowles plays the role of an immigrant to America as he recites the Pledge of Allegiance in the gymnasium of Middle Road School in Hazlet, which was transformed into Ellis Island on April 5 for an interactive Immigration Day program held in conjunction with a third- and fourth-grade social studies unit. Story and…