Category: Independent News

  • Council calls for fee waiver for senior center’s needy

    Keyport also looks at allowing escrows in redevelopment plans BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer KEYPORT — The Borough Council tasked the Keyport Senior Center’s executive director with creating a waiver process that would excuse some out-of-town, lowincome seniors from paying a $50 fee. This summer the council voted to initiate a $50 membership fee for…

  • Developer seeks return of escrow funds

    Attorney says Somerset did not authorize charge BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer HOLMDEL— Somerset Development, contract purchaser for the Alcatel Lucent property, is seeking reimbursement for escrow funds that paid for a report at odds with the developer’s concept. According to Ralph Zucker, president of Somerset Development, the Lakewood company was charged $3,500 in escrow…

  • Speed, safety are concerns in Cliffwood

    Discussion to be held at Dec. 1 council meeting ABERDEEN — Residents of West Prospect Avenue, adjacent to Matawan Avenue Middle School (MAMS), spoke at the Nov. 10 Aberdeen Township Council meeting, voicing concerns about speeding and child safety in the area. The street, in the Cliffwood section of Aberdeen, is notorious for accidents, speeding…

  • Help feed the hungry

    HAZLET — RAINE (Reaching All In Need Everyday) is seeking food donations for Thanksgiving dinners for the needy. The nonprofit organization needs approximately 50 turkeys and nonperishable foods to distribute to area families. Nonperishable food items include things like instant mashed potatoes, canned vegetables and stuffing. Food donations can be dropped off at any Hazlet…

  • $800K approved to repair historic gun batteries

    Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-12th District) announced that the U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Fiscal Year 2010 Interior and Environment Conference Report, which includes funding for Sandy Hook National Park. The conference report reconciled differences between the House and Senate appropriations bills that were passed earlier this year. The final report now goes…

  • New faces win two seats in Matawan

    BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer Andy Lopez MATAWAN — The Republican Borough Council candidates cruised to victory on Nov. 3. Newcomers Andrew Lopez Jr. and Toni Angelini swept the two, three-year term seats for the Matawan Borough Council. Angelini garnered 1,524 votes and Lopez tallied 1,483 votes out of 5,323 votes cast, according to the…

  • After heated election, Fink keeps Twp. Committee seat

    Provisional ballots give incumbent 26-vote lead BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer In a tight race for a Holmdel Township Committee seat, a count of provisional ballots on Nov. 9 at the Monmouth County Board of Elections office in Freehold revealed that incumbent Larry Fink won re-election by 26 votes. Holmdel Committeeman Larry Fink confers with…

  • Curley’s win gives GOP control of county govt.

    Middletown resident claims seat on freeholder board BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer The Republican Party exerted its stronghold in Monmouth County on Election Day, Nov. 3, and newly elected Monmouth County Freeholder John P. Curley was part of that overwhelming GOP victory. John P. Curley According to election results posted on the Monmouth County…

  • Provisional ballot count determines election results

    Provisional ballot count determines election results     Two tight races in the Bayshore region were determined by the counting of provisional ballots at the Monmouth County Board of Elections on Nov. 9.     In the closest race in the county, Keyport Borough Councilwoman Christian Bolte won re-election by a single provisional ballot over challenger Ed…