Category: Independent News

  • Twin Lights beacon was nation’s first radio station

    BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer HIGHLANDS — The year was 1899, and an Italian American named Guglielmo Marconi placed a receiving station, complete with an antenna, at the Twin Lights, sending results of the America’s Cup yacht races off the tip of Sandy Hook to editors at the New York Herald and demonstrating the…

  • Celebrating 32 years of open space preservation

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Securing permanent funding for open space was stressed at the annual board of trustees meeting of the Monmouth Conservation Foundation (MCF). MCF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to acquiring, holding and preserving open space in Monmouth County. Judith Stanley Coleman, president of MCF, held the April 26 meeting in her…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff A color guard from Matawan Regional High School marches in the Matawan Memorial Day Parade on May 24.

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    ERIC SUCAR staff Co-Chair of the Bayshore Regional Watershed Council Joe Reynolds lends a hand in the cleanup held along the Luppatatong Creek in Keyport on May 16. The New York/New Jersey Baykeeper and the Bayshore Regional Watershed Council sponsored the cleanup, which included about 20 volunteers.

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Phil Coccio, Aberdeen, looks over the names inscribed on a monument to veterans and firefighters at Memorial Park before the start of Matawan’s annual Memorial Day parade on May 24.

  • ‘A Century of Smiles’

    Although animation had its earliest beginnings in Europe in the 1800s, it took root in the U.S. at the dawn of the 20th century and is considered to be a true American art form. “Cheshire Cat – Krafty Kitty” by Disney Opening Friday, May 29, at the Monmouth Museum, “A Century of Smiles” pays tribute…

  • Residents demand answers as taxes rise

    Impact of reassessments weighs on homeowners BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer Residents turned out in full force at the May 19 Matawan Borough Council meeting to draw elected officials’ attention to the rising cost of living in the borough. What began as a budget hearing quickly turned into a question-and-answer session when residents peppered…

  • Brookdale teams shine on diamonds

    Baseball team is third, softball team is sixth at national tournaments BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer It has become a rite of spring. As sure as April showers bring May flowers, the Brookdale Community College baseball and softball teams play in the junior college national championships. The two teams — which over the years have…

  • 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…