Category: Independent News

  • Mid’town teen leads cancer awareness fight

    Student looking to do big things against ovarian cancer BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — Courtney Mackrell leads something of a double life. In one, she’s an honor roll student at Thorne Middle School, where she’s a member of the cheerleading squad known for her upbeat personality. In the other, she’s a young woman…

  • Seminar offers insight in starting a business

    HOLMDEL — Out of work? Looking for a change? Thinking of starting your own business? You may think that given the state of the economy, now is not a good time to start your own business, but with companies cutting staff and services, now is a great time for small businesses to fill in those…

  • NOTESAround Town

    The Brush and Palette Art Society will offer a pen and ink class taught by Dennis McGee, and open to all levels, 7-9 p.m. Sept. 22 and 29,and Oct.6 at Cullen Center, 1776 Union Ave., Hazlet. For more information, call Irene at 732-888-0993. ***** Monmouth County Park System will hold its “Great Fall Perennial Plant…

  • Area parishes embark on pastoral planning process

    BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Cooperation, coordination and collaboration among parishes are some of the expected outcomes of the pastoral plan recently released by the Diocese of Trenton. Titled “Led by the Spirit,” the plan would impact the 111 parishes in the counties of Monmouth, Ocean, Burlington and Mercer. More than 175 members of parishes, who…

  • Street Wise: Charity Car Show on Sept. 27

    Brookdale Community College has announced its Street Wise: Charity Car Show scheduled for Aug. 29 has been rescheduled to 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Sept. 27 at the school on Newman Springs Road, Lincroft section of Middletown. A variety of import and classic cars will be judged for “best of,” beginning at 11 a.m.; awards will be…

  • Developer revises plan for Lucent site

    Somerset will host community event at site on Sept. 23 BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer Somerset Developers, Lakewood, contract purchaser of the Alcatel-Lucent property, has submitted a revised redevelopment plan that calls for less residential development on the 472-acre site. An architectural rendering of the new concept for the atrium of the Bell Labs building…

  • Police seek information on missing Aberdeen teen

    Jacqueline Hlavenka April Goodwin Police seek information on missing Aberdeen teen BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer     ABERDEEN — Township police are investigating a missing persons report filed by the family of a township teen. According to the police department, April Goodwin, 16, of Ivy Way, is believed to have left her home for…

  • 9/11 tribute

    Dan Fowler (center) and other members of the Middletown Township Fire Department raise an American flag during the September 11 Remembrance Ceremony held at the Middletown World Trade Center Memorial Gardens, created in tribute to the 37 Middletown residents who perished in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. More photos, page 3.

  • Towns eye FEMA program, lower insurance rates

    To date, few towns enrolled in Community Rating System BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer With the start date of the new Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps looming, towns throughout the Bayshore are turning to a voluntary federal program that could potentially lower insurance rates for residents. Four municipalities along the Raritan Bay are in…