Category: Independent News
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Community Announcement
Middletown Animal Control Seeking Owner of Injured Dog Middletown Animal Control Seeking Owner of Injured Dog Middletown Township Animal Control is seeking the owner of a female pit bull found without a collar. The animal is black with a white chest and appears to have recently have had puppies. The animal was hit by a…
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Doctor finds calling on medical missions
Wayne Farmer visits Peru to provide care in tropical jungle BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent At an early age, Wayne Farmer knew that he wanted to be a medical doctor and work in the world’s underdeveloped countries that need medical care. College, medical school, marriage, family and children put this ambition on the back burner. Dr.…
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Run for the Fallen
A runner approaches the finish line for the New Jersey Run for the Fallen at the N.J. Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Holmdel on Aug. 23. The run is held in remembrance of New Jersey soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who lost their lives in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. More photos, page 3.
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Keyport requires some workers to furlough
Tom Shortell KEYPORT – Mandatory furloughs of municipal employees will go into effect Aug. 21 even though the borough narrowly failed to introduce a budget at its Aug. 18 council meeting. Under the current plan, non-emergency personnel must take four furlough days, when workers are not paid and do not come in for work, before…
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Holmdel committee OKs property reassessment
Assessor: 600 tax appeals filed by property owners BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer Faced with an increase in tax appeals, the Holmdel Township Committee has authorized an emergency appropriation to reassess property values. The committee voted unanimously at the Aug. 20 meeting to spend $99,200 for a township-wide property tax reassessment. The ordinance was introduced…
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County sues to delay FEMA flood maps
Pallone joins lawsuit as friend of the court BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer Monmouth County filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Aug. 14, the latest move in the ongoing fight against revised mandatory flood maps in the Bayshore region. The lawsuit alleges FEMA has no legal standing…
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Run for the Fallen
Clockwise from top: Runners trail their N.J. State Police escort as they near the finish of the New Jersey Run for the Fallen at the N.J. Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Holmdel Aug. 23. A runner wears a photo of Sgt. Stephen Sherman. who was killed in action while deployed in Iraq in 2005. Participants listen…
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Keyport falls one vote short of budget intro
Furlough days implemented for nonemergency personnel BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer KEYPORT — The Borough Council fell one vote short of introducing an amended budget at the Aug. 18 meeting, where borough clerks, police officers and their supporters appeared in numbers to object to possible layoffs. The council voted 3-2 in favor of introducing a…
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Drunken-driving crackdown to begin on Aug. 21
Law enforcement officials from the Aberdeen and Holmdel township police departments will be cracking down on drunk drivers as part of the summer 2009 Over the Limit, Under Arrest campaign. Beginning Aug. 21 and running through Sept. 7, local and state law enforcement officials will conduct saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints, looking for motorists who…
