Category: Independent News

  • Art & More at Cel-ebration! Gallery

    ‘Art & More at the Jersey Shore” opens July 17 and runs through Sept. 4 at Cel-ebration! Gallery in Red Bank. “Jiminy Cricket” The show features the art of Andrea Alvin and Disney/Pixar’s “Toy Story 3.” Meet Alvin at the gallery July 17, 2-5 p.m. Throughout the show, Celebration! Gallery will be holding a toy…

  • Mid’twn weighs changes in brush, leaf collection

    Cutback would allow DPW to perform roadwork BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — In the wake of several damaging storms resulting in an unusually large volume of brush, Township Engineer Ted Maloney asked the Township Committee at the July 6 meeting to consider forgoing a fall brush collection to free up public works employees…

  • Vietnam film to be shown

    On July 17 at 1 p.m. the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation will host a film screening and panel about the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam. The film, “We Were Heroes: The 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam” will feature the story of the “First Team” in Vietnam, including the famous battles and operations in…

  • Community Garden feeds the hungry

    Tours of Lunch Break and garden set for Saturday MIDDLETOWN — Westminster Presbyterian Church’s PAR Garden (Plant-A-Row for the Hungry) is fulfilling its mission by producing a bountiful harvest that is feeding the hungry. The goal of the community garden, which is divided into individual plots and planted with vegetables, is to produce a minimum…

  • Julius Caesar

    Top: Audra Mariel Talerico, as Portia, and Daniel Rezac, as Brutus, perform for the audience gathered at the outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” held on the Great Lawn at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft on July 8. Brookdale’s Shakespeare Ensemble presented the multiple-day show. Bottom: The young cast makes final preparations before participating in…

  • Hunting for fossils

    Top to bottom: Jerry Nasta and his son John, 5, from Middletown, hunt for fossils in Middletown’s Poricy Park on July 11. Kristi Baar from Garnet Valley, Pa., and her 19-monthold daughter Sloane hunt for fossils in a streambed. A Poricy Park guide helps Mark Hines, 10, of Colts Neck, identify an Exogyra fossil fragment…

  • 7th annual Ryan’s Run held in Middletown

    Runners take their positions at the start of the seventh annual Ryan’s Run on June 26. MIDDLETOWN — Ryan’s Run was held on Saturday, June 26, on the grounds of Mountain Hill School, where 520 runners finished the seventh annual 5K event and 150 runners ran in the 1-mile run. Organized by the Ryan Andrew…

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    Residents gathered at Veterans Memorial Park watch as fireworks light up the sky during Hazlet Township’s Independence Day display on July 2. MIKE JAGENDORF