Category: Independent News

  • Aberdeen green team seeks community volunteers

    ABERDEEN — The township Green Team is seeking volunteers to help deliver free compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs throughout the community at a special event to be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 17. Funding for the bulb distribution is provided by Project Porchlight, a grassroots energy efficiency program that encourages people…

  • Middletown Arts Center seeks local talent for showcase

    The Middletown Township Cultural and Arts Council is sponsoring the 2010 annual Middletown Talent Showcase. The council is seeking all varieties of acts, including, but not limited to, vocal performance, musical performance, theatrical scenes and monologues, dance, magic tricks or any other special talent. All interested performers must participate in a formal audition to be…

  • NJ Transit director seeks public input

    Hearing will be held in Manalapan NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein has announced that the statewide transit agency is aggressively confronting current and future budget shortfalls that have arisen due to the severe national recession and the state’s $2.2 billion current-year budget gap, and $11 billion 2011 budget gap. In a press release, Weinstein…

  • “Underground Railroad,”

    Second- and third-graders at Strathmore Elementary School in Aberdeen perform March 2 in “Underground Railroad,” a program about the legacy of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, an African American who helped slaves escape to freedom. More photos, page 3. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Middletown collects supplies for resident serving in Afghanistan

    MIDDLETOWN — The township has reactivated the Support the Troops program to collect supplies for U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Nicholas Abbate, a lifelong township resident stationed in Afghanistan. Donations will be accepted through April 5 at Middletown Town Hall, 1 Kings Highway, and the Middletown Main Library, 55 New Monmouth Road. Abbate, a weapons…

  • Twp. and BOE continue negotiations over turf fields

    Public forum to be held in late March BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer Talks between the Middletown Township Committee and the Board of Education will reopen to discuss allowing local sports associations to use fields at Middletown High School South. A preliminary design plan for West Front Street Park was placed on the Middletown Township…

  • Spring Concert Series benefits food pantries, Haitian relief

    Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Holmdel will host a Spring Concert Series. The series opens at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 27, with a program featuring the N.J. State Youth Orchestra. The Chamber Players and the Preparatory String Orchestra will perform individual and joint selections. All money and food donations will benefit local food pantries. A…

  • Mid’town district faces tough budget choices

    Thompson: ‘There is no more money in Trenton’ BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer L ocal elected officials told members of the public attending a public forum hosted by the Middletown Township School District that school districts are being asked to make tough but necessary choices given the state’s fiscal crisis. Middletown Superintendent of Schools Karen…

  • Holmdel church organizes ‘Crack the Code!’ run/walk

    HOLMDEL — Hundreds of runners and walkers are expected to gather in Holmdel on Saturday, April 10, to participate in “Crack the Code!,” an event to help find the cause and ease the cure for breast cancer. The 5K run, 1-mile walk and children’s races will take place at the Vonage headquarters in Holmdel at…