Category: Independent News

  • Yard debris will be picked up curbside

    MATAWAN — The borough is sponsoring a curbside cleanup and will provide pickup services for residential yard debris. Only yard debris, such as thatch, tree and bush clippings, and branches 4 inches in diameter and smaller will be picked up. The Matawan Borough Department of Public Works will begin picking up debris on the west…

  • Yvonne Yaar, Glass

    The Monmouth Museum is beginning the third season of its New Jersey Emerging Artists Series in the Nilson Gallery with an exhibition of works in glass by artist Yvonne Yaar. “Switchboard Without an Operator” Yaar is especially interested in the medium of glass, intrigued by its transparency, color and light-reflecting qualities. She creates both glass…

  • Helping hands

    Devrin Vivino, Freehold Township, and Mary Anne Mitchell, Wall, participate in a cleanup of the wooded boundary along the reservoir side of the Brookdale campus on April 5. The cleanup was sponsored by the Navesink Swimming River Group, Brookdale Waterwatch and the Monmouth County Clean Committee.

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Donna Abel, Matawan, adjusts a bow on the Easter bonnet worn by Sarah Abel, 8, before the borough’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt and Easter Bonnet Contest get under way on April 4.

  • NOTES

    Bryanna Long, 4, Aberdeen, checks out what’s hidden inside the eggs she collected during Matawan’s annual Easter Egg Hunt and Easter Bonnet Contest on April 4. With Easter approaching, volunteers at Cross of Glory Lutheran Church are gearing up for their 25th annual Easter egg hunt on Sunday, April 12. Children and their families are…

  • Dems choose Byrnes for freeholder run

    Control of county board at stake BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer The Monmouth County Democrats, in control of the Board of Chosen Freeholders for the first time in 23 years, have selected Middletown Committeeman Sean Byrnes Sean Byrnes to keep control of the county. Byrnes’ name will be on the Democratic ticket in June’s primary…

  • Middletown voters ‘Meet the Candidates’

    Six running for BOE field questions, state views BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer Dan Skelton MIDDLETOWN — All six candidates for the district Board of Education were in agreement last week that the current economic downturn and flat state aid numbers represent the biggest challenge faced by the Middletown Board of Education. The candidates, three…

  • 2009 Ryan’s Run set for June 20 in Middletown

    MIDDLETOWN — The planning committee for Ryan’s Run, an annual 5K run and 1-mile fun run/walk to benefit the Ryan Andrew Kaiser Memorial Foundation, will sponsor its sixth annual event on Saturday, June 20, on the grounds of Mountain Hill School in Middletown. The Jersey Shore Running Club will again partner with the event that…

  • Aberdeen projects put on hold

    Residents object to plans for rental units in Cliffwood BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer Residents of Cliffwood told the Zoning Board of Adjustment last week that they want new development in their section of Aberdeen Township to be the same as in other parts of town, a mix of rental and owner-occupied housing. The…