Category: Independent News

  • ‘Winter Delights’

    An exhibit of more than 300 paintings by the Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast is at the Middletown Arts Center. Spring Lake Fog” by Lisa Grob “Winter Delights — Plein Air and Beyond,” a special exhibition of paintings exploring our communities, includes studio works as well as plein air pieces and will be…

  • Christmas Musicale

    Clockwise from top left: Ruth Alt, of Morganville, a volunteer with the Matawan Historical Society, places a decoration on the Christmas tree at Burrowes Mansion. Musicians Lenore Savino (above) and Diane Doolittle (below, right) play traditional Irish music as part of the Jersey Shore-based Irish band Trinity during the historical society’s annual Christmas Musicale Dec.…

  • NOTESAround Town

    Volunteers with Middletown High School South’s Eagles Helping the Community service club collected 45 turkeys during their Thanksgiving Day food drive The schoolwide drive, which benefits Middletown Helps Its Own, yielded more than 1,000 items of food in addition to the turkeys. Each year club members conduct Thanksgiving and Christmas food drives and sponsor a…

  • Consultants use feedback to envision future Hazlet

    Participants call for less traffic, more pedestrian and bike paths BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer HAZLET — Consultants presented their rough draft of Hazlet 2030, a visioning of the township based on resident feedback, to a small crowd of mostly township employees, volunteers and elected officials Dec. 2. Employees of Maser Consultants showed their first…

  • Dec. 13 all-ages show at Stone Pony to benefit Samaritan Center

    Greater Media wants to fuel the holiday spirit by providing good music and a way to help the hungry at Greater Media’s Good Samaritan Holiday Bash to be held Dec. 13 at the Stone Pony, 913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park. Proceeds and nonperishable food donations will benefit the Samaritan Center, a food pantry headquartered in…

  • Boro plans to bond $6.5M for water treatment plant

    Public comment, council vote at Dec. 15 meeting BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer MATAWAN — The Borough Council introduced a bond ordinance on Dec. 1 providing an appropriation of $6.5 million for improvements to the borough’s water treatment plant. The plant has been the subject of discussion since January because the facilities are in need…

  • Celebrating the holidays

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Clockwise from top left: Tommy Rasa, of Middletown, looks at the tree decorations during Middletown’s Christmas Tree Lighting and Holiday Celebration on Dec. 6. Joe Lawlor (center) leads musicians in TUBACHRISTMAS, a yuletide musical tribute to legendary tuba player William Bell. Victoria Laurence, Middletown, performs in TUBACHRISTMAS, which takes place in…

  • IM chat leads to arrest

    Law enforcement officials arrested a Marlboro man after he allegedly tried to arrange a sexual tryst with a person he thought was a 14-year-old. The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and the Keyport Police Department arrested Brian G. Schneider, 22, of Marlboro, Nov. 24 as part of a joint investigation. Police said Schneider, thinking he was…

  • Photo

    CHRIS KELLY staff Doug Kaufman, of Matawan, operates his model train setup during Greenberg’s Train and Toy Show at the New Jersey Expo Center in Edison on Nov. 29. CHRIS KELLY staff