Category: Independent News

  • Belmar to host Beer on the Pier

    More than 25 craft breweries will be pouring samples of their fine ales and lagers all afternoon Sept. 25 at the first Beer on the Pier at the Belmar Marina. American craft breweries such as Avery, Lagunitas, Yards, Stone, Smuttynose, Long Trail and many more will join local New Jersey breweries and beers from around…

  • Grant will fund regional coastal initiatives

    Urban Coast Institute receives $250K from NOAA BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — Monmouth University’s Urban Coast Institute (UCI) has received a $249,750 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to continue its coastal monitoring and policy initiative. UCI Director Tony MacDonald said the Resilient Coastal Urban Community and Ecosystem…

  • Freeholders ask gov to weigh in on wind turbine

    Board members say they lack power to halt Bayshore project BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — Monmouth County Freeholders plan to ask the state to consider placing a moratorium on a controversial 380-foot-tall industrial wind turbine planned for construction within 1,000 feet of a Union Beach neighborhood. At a meeting of the Board of…

  • Twp. Committee confirms four police appointments

    BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — Friends and family of the township Police Department gathered at town hall on Aug. 19 to witness four police promotions in the township. The Township Committee formally appointed 23-year department veteran John Mioduszewski as the fourth chief of police in Holmdel, and promoted Patrolman Michael Pigott to police…

  • County honors women’s right to vote, local leaders

    BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande (l-r), Sen. Jennifer Beck, Freeholder Amy Mallet, Freeholder Director Lillian Burry, Holmdel Mayor Serena DiMaso and Assemblywoman Amy Handlin pose with a proclamation recognizing the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. ERIC SUCAR staff HOLMDEL — The Monmouth County Board…

  • Monmouth Museum hosts Anique Taylor exhibit

    The Monmouth Museum is hosting “New Jersey Emerging Artists Series — Anique Taylor: Mixed Media.” The exhibition, which will run through Sept. 19, features mixed media sculptures rich in color and detail that are psychological portraits of women in various stages of their lives. Uncertain Spring” Taylor uses a variety of media, including paint, colored…

  • NOTES

    Learn how to create and share home movies and photoshows, review hardware and software, and much more, with a free multimedia workshop 7-9 p.m. Sept 9 on Brookdale Community College’s Lincroft campus in room ATC 224. (The location has been changed; it was originally to be held at High Tech High School). Visit http://home.comcast. net/~stevemiller1/BCUG/…

  • Ready to run

    Participants warm up for the first 5K walk/run supporting STARS, which promotes the social and athletic advancement of teens and adults with developmental disabilities, on Aug. 27 at the Hazlet Swim & Tennis Club. FRANK GALIPO

  • Mid’twn to hold 9/11 remembrance ceremony

    MIDDLETOWN — Middletown Township will hold a remembrance ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 11, at 8:46 a.m. at the MiddletownWorld Trade Center Memorial Gardens in memory of the 37 residents who died in the World Trade Center tragedy. The time marks the moment an airplane impacted the World Trade Center’s North Tower nine years ago. The…