Category: Independent News

  • With roots deep in Middletown, Evelyn Hartman turns 100

    Evelyn Starke Hartman MIDDLETOWN — Evelyn Starke Hartman, a descendant of Middletown’s earliest residents, was born on Jan. 3, 1910, in the same house on Conover Street where she lives today. On the occasion of her 100th birthday, she was honored by generations of family and friends who celebrated her remarkable life in a ceremony…

  • Investigation under way on fatal train accident

    MATAWAN — Local officials are investigating an accident involving a NJ Transit train that fatally injured a Laurence Harbor man walking on the tracks near the Matawan- Aberdeen Train Station on Monday, according to NJ Transit. The train, which struck Krishna Kumar, 45, departed at 4:30 a.m. Feb. 1 from New York Penn Station and…

  • Taylor Butler House

    Re-enactor George Efinger portrays a Delaware Indian warrior allied with the British during the Revolutionary War before a group at Taylor Butler House in Middletown on Jan. 26. FRANK GALIPO

  • Rescue mission

    Left to right: Justin Sampson (l-r) helps Joe Santos out of the water during an ice rescue drill conducted by the Matawan Fire Department on Jan. 24. Ed Lee pulls in the rescuer and “victim” during the drill held at Lake Lefferts in Matawan. PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff

  • Twp. to rezone former industrial site for senior housing

    Planning Bd. approves amending age-restricted housing zone BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer ABERDEEN — A zoning change for the proposed public senior housing complex on the former South River Metals site is under way for 2010. The Aberdeen Township Planning Board unanimously approved introduction of an ordinance amending its Age- Restricted Affordable Housing (ARAH) zoning…

  • Fight Like a Girl’ benefits women being treated for cancer

    LONG BRANCH — The second Fight Like a Girl Against Cancer” benefit will be dedicated to women being treated for cancer, including a local mother of two who is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Wendy Estrada Martinez, a Long Branch resident, will be among those celebrated in the second “Fight Like a Girl Against Cancer”…

  • Prosecutor: Man took $187K from company, firehouse

    Detectives from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office arrested a Holmdel man for allegedly embezzling a combined $187,000 from his ambulance company and Hazlet Fire Company No. 1. Jeffrey Walker, 51, was charged on Jan. 8 with second-degree theft by failure to make required disposition of property received and third-degree theft by deception, according to a…

  • Population growth is topic of Dialogs at Unitarian Meetinghouse

    MIDDLETOWN — Understanding the impact of an exploding population on the Earth’s resources and our quality of life will be the topic of two Sunday morning dialogs at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Monmouth County Meetinghouse in Lincroft. On Jan. 31, “Global Population: 6.8 Billion and Growing. Are We There Yet?” will be presented by…

  • Cooking over the Hearth

    Lenita Gullman, a docent at Poricy Park in Middletown, talks to a group about cooking over the hearth at the historic Murray Farmhouse on Jan. 24. CLAIRE SHEPROW