Category: Independent News

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  • Volunteers needed for Middletown Domestic Violence Response Team

    Volunteers are being recruited for the Middletown Township Domestic Violence Response Team (DVRT). The Middletown Township Police Department, in conjunction with 180 Turning Lives Around, maintains a team of specially trained volunteer advocates available to meet confidentially with domestic violence victims at police headquarters 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Volunteer advocates are…

  • Holmdel approves fees for field use

    Committee also sets order for priority use of fields BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Correspondent HOLMDEL — The Township Committee unanimously approved an ordinance last week that will charge nonresident sports teams a fee to use township fields. As approved, the fee would apply to sports teams made up of 65 percent nonresidents or more, and the…

  • Toys from Vietnam era come to Holmdel

    HOLMDEL — The Vietnam Era Educational Center will host a new exhibit, “Growing Up in the 1960s-’70s: A Flashback in Time.” The exhibit is a collection of more than 50 toys from the 1960s and 1970s from the Doll and Toy Museum in New York. The exhibit will be on display at the educational center…

  • Artists Days

    Artist Michelle Chen, of Holmdel, works on a pastel rendering of the vibrant orchids in the greenhouse at Sickles Market in Little Silver on Feb. 21 during the market’s annual Artists Days. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • “From the Big House to the Little White House,”

    Lorraine Stone performs at the Middletown Township Public Library Feb. 21 in her one-woman show, “From the Big House to the Little White House,” the story of Mary Bowser, an African-American woman who returned to the South during the Civil War to spy for the North. SHEPROW

  • Nelson Riddle ‘Studio Sessions’ slated for March 5 & 6

    On March 5 and 6, Tim McLoone’s Supper Club in Asbury Park will host a second concert of the music of Nelson Riddle, the iconic band leader and musical genius whose arrangements helped define an era. “The Nelson Riddle Show: Studio Sessions” will set the mood for the audience to revisit the original studio arrangements…

  • First Assistant Chief Andrew Spears

    First Assistant Chief Andrew Spears was sworn in to the ranks of the Middletown Township Fire Department by Mayor Gerald Scharfenberger on Feb 15. In attendance were department officials (l-r) 3rd Assistant Chief Peter Laimann, 2nd Assistant Chief John D’Altilio Sr., Spears, Deputy Chief Michael Chenoweth and Chief of the Department John Isaksen. A standing-room-only…

  • Celebrating a natural local treasure

    BY MARIE MABER Correspondent ‘Local Treasures: Images of Sandy Hook” at the Center for the Visual Arts gallery celebrates Brookdale Community College’s new painting classes offered at Sandy Hook. “Late Afternoon, Sandy Hook” by Sid Godwin The exhibition includes recent “Hook” paintings by Brookdale faculty and students. In addition, local artist — and local treasure…