Category: Independent News

  • Keyport 2010 municipal budget in holding pattern

    BY JAMES McEVOY Correspondent KEYPORT — The Borough Council will have to wait at least until its next scheduled meeting on May 18 to adopt the 2010 municipal budget after two proposals failed to get a second motion for a vote. The $8.4 million budget, which as constituted would include an increase of 1.6 cents…

  • Portion of Navesink River Road to reopen

    MIDDLETOWN — A westerly portion of Navesink River Road that has been closed and under repair since April 1 is expected to reopen in about two weeks. The delay was caused by a faulty markout by the water company that caused a water main break at the construction site, according to a press release from…

  • MCSPCA official files animal cruelty charges against two

    An Aberdeen Township resident pleaded guilty May 5 to six counts of animal abuse, according to Victor “Buddy” Amato, chief humane law enforcement officer for the Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Paul Justin Poulet, 21, of Aberdeen, was charged with six counts of abuse of a living creature and pleaded…

  • Police use grant funds to curtail underage drinking

    Mid’twn PD: Cops in Shops program a success BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — Plainclothes officers are staking out local liquor stores as part of the Cops in Shops program to prevent the purchase of alcohol by underage customers. An $8,000 grant from the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control pays the salaries…

  • Retail complex gets first round of approval

    Agreement with NJ Transit needed for project BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer The exterior of the Colonial Shops strip mall located on Route 516 would receive improvements under a proposed plan. JACQUELINE HLAVENKA MATAWAN — The borough’s Unified Planning and Zoning Board gave preliminary approval for a new retail building and improvements to an existing…

  • ‘Senior Spring Swing’

    Mary Silenski and Ben Weiner, residents of Matawan, move to the lively swing music provided by the Manasquan High School Band at the “Senior Spring Swing” held at Monmouth University, West Long Branch, on May 4. CLAIRE SHEPROW

  • Matawan pares,passes $9.8M 2010 budget

    Police union agrees to cut overtime to save jobs BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer MATAWAN — The Borough Council unanimously passed its introduced $9.8 million 2010 budget on April 22, a $54,321 reduction from the 2009 total budget. As a result of the state budget crisis, the borough received a decrease of approximately $478,000 in…

  • EarthFest

    David Wasserman (l) and son Jonah plant daffodils outside Temple Shalom Aberdeen during EarthFest on May 2. More photos at gmnews.com. LAUREN CASSELBERRY

  • A volunteer removes a tire during a cleanup

    A volunteer removes a tire during a cleanup of the fresh-water tributary leading into Whale Creek in Aberdeen, sponsored by the NY/NJ Baykeeper, the Aberdeen Environmental Committee and Bayshore Regional Watershed Council on May 1. LAUREN CASSELBERRY