Category: Independent News

  • Faith group offers free haircut program

    MIDDLETOWN — A little off the top can go a long way in boosting self-esteem, according to Love In the Name of Christ (Love INC), a Monmouth County faith-based organization based in Eatontown that serves county residents in need. Through its free haircuts program, called Cuts for Christ, the group is able to provide a…

  • ‘Have a Heart, Give a Book’

    Annual book donation drive promotes literacy BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer Members of the Monmouth County Reading Council wrap books for the “Have a Heart, Give a Book” campaign at the Cliffwood Elementary School on Jan. 29. ABERDEEN — Volunteers with the Monmouth County Reading Council came together on Jan. 29 at Cliffwood Elementary…

  • NOTES

    Good News Christian Preschool, 60 Maple Place, Keyport, will hold an open house 10 a.m.-noon Feb. 21. The school offers half-day sessions for children age 2½-3, and 4. Its Mommy & Me program for children age 18-36 months begins March 4. For more information, call 732-335-1422 or 732- 264-8078. Holmdel Historical Society will meet 7…

  • IN THE ARTS

    CVA’s ‘Salon des Refusés’ at Brookdale Community College For artists, the jurying experience can leave them and their work out in the cold and not visible to the larger exhibition going public. This year, for the first time the public will be able to view the works of artists who entered the Monmouth County Arts…

  • Photo

    CHRIS KELLY staff Gabby Nuwar, a student at Fairview Elementary School in Middletown, keeps several hula hoops in motion during the school’s annual Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser for the American Heart Association on Feb. 13. More photos, page 19.

  • Developer’s 3 R’s: retail, residential & ratables

    Concepts presented for future of Bell Labs site BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer Holmdel residents and former Bell Labs employees crowded into the auditorium on the sublevel of the 2 million-square-foot glass and steel building on Crawfords Corner Road to listen to what may be in store for the property and the township. Ralph…

  • Alumni propose combining Catholic schools

    Diocese plans to close Bayshore schools in June BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer Alumni of three Catholic elementary schools scheduled to close in the Bayshore have proposed a plan to keep at least one of the schools open: combine the three into one viable school. St. Joseph School, Keyport “We really feel strongly about the…

  • M’town preps for stimulus funding

    Shadow Lake dredging and Leonardo outfall are options BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — Projects are being lined up as Middletown awaits word on its share of stimulus funds and whether the funds will come in the form of grants or loans, or a combination of both. At the Township Committee’s Feb. 2 meeting,…

  • FMERPA chair: Community must be vigilant in Bell Labs reuse

    BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer ERIN O. STATTEL Jim McCorkel, of Citizens for Informed Land Use, introduces Bob Lucky, chairman of the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority, who was the guest speaker at the Feb. 11 CILU meeting held at the senior center in Holmdel. HOLMDEL — Community involvement is key to ensuring…