Category: Independent News
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New Aeromarine proposal calls for solar panel farm
If approved, change would redesign redevelopment plan BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer The Keyport Borough Council showed interest in amending the Aeromarine Redevelopment Plan to include a solar panel farm on a portion of the brownfield site after a preliminary hearing at an Oct. 29 special meeting. Paul Curran, senior executive vice president of Axio…
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Mitchell reflects on 24 years with Keyport Police Department
Chief began five months of vacation time Nov. 1 BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer Keyport Police Chief Thomas Mitchell was never supposed to be a cop. The men in his family had been Newark firefighters for generations, and the same was expected of him. Thomas Mitchell Instead, he took a different path in civil service.…
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Aberdeen receives grant for hazardous waste cleanup
BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer ABERDEEN — Township officials announced that Aberdeen has received $55,340 from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Municipal Grant Program. The funds will be used to pay for an environmental investigation at a 1.34-acre Church Street site that was previously leased to Matawan Borough for a…
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Windmill project gets green light, will seek bids for base
Contract must be in place by February to qualify for stimulus funds BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer The Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority is seeking bids to construct the base of a 380-foot-tall windmill after receiving permission from the Department of Environmental Protection. Robert Fischer, executive vice president of BRSA, said the sewerage authority put out…
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Veterans Day ceremony at Vietnam Vets’ Memorial
HOLMDEL — The New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation will host a Veterans Day Ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m. The N.J. Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial is located on the grounds of the PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel. Adm. Paul Gaffney II, president of Monmouth University, will be the speaker. Gaffney served two tours…
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Strokes of genius at the Jersey Shore
Satellite communications. Radio astronomy. The Big Bang theory. These world-changing breakthroughs and many others trace their origins to a quiet corner of Monmouth County where some of the most gifted scientific minds lived and worked for decades. Many still do, including Dr. Herwig Kogelnik, who will present “Making Waves— Genius at the Jersey Shore” at…
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Grant funds thermal-imaging camera
Dept. of Homeland Security funding available to police in smaller jurisdictions ABERDEEN — The township police department has been awarded an equipment grant from the Department of Homeland Security’s Commercial Equipment Direct Assistance Program (CEDAP). Through the grant, the department received a mini thermal monocular (MTM), a thermal-imaging camera that allows detection of heat-emitting objects…
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Digital language lab in future for Holmdel district
Foundation begins fundraising for digital learning technology BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — Plans call for township’s public school students to use the latest technology to learn a foreign language digitally. The Holmdel Foundation for Educational Excellence announced at the Oct. 28 Board of Education meeting that the foundation will embark on a fundraising…
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With a blessing, Highlands Bridge reopens to traffic
Traffic shifts onto completed southern half of span BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer Asmall group of Sea Bright and Highlands officials gathered at the Route 36 Highlands Bridge for a blessing of the structure before its reopening on Oct. 29. In attendance for the reopening of the bridge are Highlands Councilman Chris Francy, Sea Bright…
