Category: Independent News
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Sewer rate increase defeated in Holmdel
Sewer funds depleted for taxpayer relief BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer HOLMDEL— By a split 2-2 vote, an ordinance that would have increased residential and commercial sewer rates for the second time in six months failed at a Township Committee meeting on March 3. The ordinance, which proposed a 15 percent quarterly increase for sewer…
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Steinem: Full equality still a century away
‘An Evening With Gloria Steinem’ at Brookdale draws overflow crowd BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent Writer, editor and social activist Gloria Steinem talks with members of the press prior to the start of “An Evening With Gloria Steinem” at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft on March 1. ERIC SUCAR staff MIDDLETOWN — “If I had one…
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Keyport FD sounds alarm on vehicle replacement
BY JAMES MCEVOY Correspondent KEYPORT — Leadership and members of the Keyport Fire Department crowded into the municipal courtroom for the March 1 Keyport Borough Council meeting to make a public appeal for new equipment and to combat what they feel are misconceptions about the department. John McCluster, first assistant chief, said there is a…
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Army secy: Keep commissary open
PX could operate for two years after Fort Monmouth closure BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer The fight to keep the commissary at Fort Monmouth open past the post’s closure date in September has received some significant backing. In a pair of letters addressed to Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez (both D-N.J.), Secretary of the…
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Holmdel votes to oppose turbine
Twp. joins freeholders, Union Beach, Keyport Hazlet against turbine BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — The township has joined the Monmouth County Freeholders and the municipalities of Union Beach, Hazlet and Keyport in opposition to a 380-foot-tall wind turbine planned for the Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority’s (BRSA) 24-acre wastewater management plant site. The resolution…
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Matawan streamlines business license process
Ordinance revised to expedite new business openings BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer B MATAWAN — Opening a new business in the borough will now be faster and easier than ever before based on new licensing regulations approved by the Borough Council on Feb. 15. The governing body approved streamlining and revamping its business license ordinance…
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Frank Talk presents black history programs
REDBANK— Local actress Lorraine Stone will bring a great heroine of black women’s history to life in “AWoman Named Mary Bowser” at Frank Talk Art Bistro and Books on March 19 and 20. MaryBowserwas born a slave in 1839 on a plantation in Virginia. Her contribution to the outcome of the CivilWar was one that…
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‘Give Peace a Chance’
Left: John and Yoko, Tommy Smothers and Judi Marcioni Steinberg, Dr. Timothy Leary and wife Rosemary sing “Give Peace a Chance.” Above: John and Yoko perform a spontaneous and unrecorded duet. JOAN ATHEY/Peaceworks Now Productions Celebrate John Lennon’s life and legacy through images and stories featured in the exhibition “Give Peace a Chance: John Lennon…
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Asbury Park: A renaissance for Monmouth’s city-by-the-shore Empty
