Category: Independent News

  • Camp Happiness Summer Auto Meet for the Blind

    The Middletown Lions Club and the New Jersey Blind Citizens Association (NJBCA) will host the fourth annual Camp Happiness Summer Auto Meet for the Blind on Sunday, June 28, from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Dearborn Market, 2170 Route 35 in Holmdel. Camp Happiness, established in 1910 and located in the Leonardo section of Middletown…

  • Fiber Art X 7

    ‘Fiber Form & Function III,” an exhibit of works by a group of seven fiber artists who call themselves Fiber Art X 7, opens today at the Middletown Library, where it will run through June 26. “Tin Roof” by Sandra Rinehimer Roberts The fiber artists are Pam Burke, Theresa Caracappa, Beverly Hertler, Nancy McCarron Lubisco,…

  • Lakehurst to Red Bank is panel’s rail selection

    Efforts continue to institute passenger train service for inland Monmouth, Ocean BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer Passenger train service could come to inland Monmouth and Ocean counties if NJ Transit administrators follow through on the recommendation of a working group of stakeholders. According to a May 27 press release from NJ Transit, members of a…

  • Bring it on! 23rd annual Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival

    Memorial Day has come and gone, and now it’s time for the Jersey Shore’s first major festival: the Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival. Houston Person This annual extravaganza, produced by the Jersey Shore Jazz and Blues Foundation, will take place this weekend, June 5-7, in scenic Marine Park by the gentle Navesink River. The…

  • Special kids will have their best day ever at the beach

    Best Day Foundation promotes outdoor events for special-needs children BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer ACalifornia-based nonprofit will host the “Best Day at the Beach” series of events for special-needs kids at beaches along the Jersey Shore. A young girl catches a wave with the help of surfer Johnny Bowling during a day at the beach…

  • Fun at the fair

    Clockwise from top left: Braden Dupey, of Aberdeen, takes in the games and rides on May 27 at the annual St. Joseph Fair held last week at St. Joseph Parish in Keyport. Casey Osterkorn of Union Beach enjoys a whirl on the Scrambler. The operator of the Gravitron watches over riders.

  • NOTES

    Nick Weaver, Middletown, performs with the band Fruit of the Loom during a Battle of the Bands competition held at Red Bank Catholic High School on May 22. The event was a fund-raiser for Holmdel-based nonprofit Sylvia’s Children, which helps orphaned children in Uganda, Africa. Aberdeen Republican Executive Committeewill hold a pasta dinner from 6:30-9:30…

  • Budget on hold, discussion rolls on

    Despite a backlog of paperwork at state level, Twp. Committee talks dollars and sense BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer Despite taking no action on the 2009 municipal budget, the Holmdel Township Committee completed what one resident deemed a “successful” conversation about this year’s reductions and curtailed spending. “I castigated you all on Monday night…

  • Plant a garden and butterflies will come

    Students at Hazlet’s Middle School planted a courtyard garden designed to attract colorful butterflies to the school grounds. PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Above: Chenowa Wendel sets plants in a new butterfly garden at Hazlet’s Middle School on May 11. Below: Vanessa Ali and Becky Terranova water the plants designed to attract butterflies. “We chose…