Category: Independent News

  • In the Service

    Army National Guard Sgt. Maj. Rodger A. Miller is returning to the U.S. after a deployment to the Iraqi Theater of Operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Miller, an operations sergeant major with 28 years of military service, is normally assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 114th Infantry, Woodbury. A 1979 graduate…

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    Becky Fellingham, of Holmdel, shows her patriotism at the First Presbyterian Church of Red Bank Strawberry Festival on July 5. A concert of patriotic music and song followed, an Independence Day tradition at the Tower Hill church.

  • Keyport makes it easier to live where you work

    Boro partners with state on work-force housing program BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer The borough of Keyport is introducing a state home-mortgage incentive program designed to encourage local workers to move into town. Marge Della Vecchia speaks during a press conference for Live Where You Work. Mayor Robert Bergen and officials with the New Jersey…

  • Residents protest Avaya rezoning

    Committee approves ordinance to provide affordable housing BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer The Middletown Township Committee voted unanimously to approve an ordinance that rezoned commercial properties for affordable housing despite outrage expressed by Lincroft residents at the July 20 meeting. Under the ordinance, the township is converting three commercial properties, including the 65-acre Avaya site,…

  • NOTES

    Audience members brought blankets and lawn chairs to watch a performance of “MacBeth” by the Brookdale Shakespeare Ensemble under the stars on July 16. Navesink Hook & Ladder Fire Company No. 1 will host its 121st annual Fireman’s Fair 6-11 p.m. Aug. 6-8 at the firehouse 141 Monmouth Ave., Navesink section of Middletown. The fair…

  • Fireman’s Fair, Nat’l Night Out, Spanish American Fest in Keyport

    KEYPORT — Late summer is a time when the borough plays host to several annual events, including the Fireman’s Fair, a summertime tradition. The 43rd annual Keyport Fireman’s Fair will be held 7-11 p.m. July 27-31 and 6:30- 11:30 p.m. Aug. 1 at Fireman’s Park, on the waterfront at Broad and First streets. The free…

  • ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’

    Carolyn Hodge portrays one of the three witches in the Brookdale Summer Shakespeare Ensemble production of ‘MacBeth’ presented outdoors on the Lincroft campus on July 16.

  • Christie taps Monmouth sheriff as running mate

    New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie on Monday picked Kim Guadagno, the current Monmouth County sheriff and a former federal prosecutor, to run on his ticket for lieutenant governor. In the November election, New Jersey residents will elect a lieutenant governor for the first time. “As a federal prosecutor and later as the Monmouth…

  • Emerging Artist: Shin-Young An

    The Monmouth Museum is presenting the third season of its New Jersey Emerging Artists Series in the Nilson Gallery. Partly Guilty 2″ This series continues with an exhibition of oil paintings by artist Shin-Young An, a resident of Palisades Park. “Shin-Young An — Oil Paintings” will run through Aug. 9. Shin-Young creates portraits juxtaposing ordinary,…