Category: Independent News

  • September: A perfectly edited garden vision

    What expectations do you have of your garden? Your goal should be to create a cohesive and vigorously flourishing plant picture — a doable creation with plants that know their place and don’t roam uncontrollably throughout the space allocated. The plants you choose to adopt say a lot about you. Some “safe” gardeners rely mostly…

  • Remembering 9/11

    Clockwise from top: The Pledge of Allegiance is recited by people attending the Middletown Township Sept. 11 Remembrance Ceremony. A memorial for Ronald M. Breitweiser is one of the 37 dedicated to Middletown residents who died in the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Emergency personnel stand at attention during the ceremony. A…

  • Fire co. gets $12K grant for response equipment

    MIDDLETOWN — The Lincroft Fire Company will be able to purchase a long list of equipment to help strengthen its emergency response thanks to a $12,234 grant. The grant has been awarded by Swett & Crawford and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. Red Bank-based Phoenix Underwriting Managers initiated the grant process by alerting Swett & Crawford…

  • Councilwoman probes, meets with resistance

    Gallo criticized for challenging hirings, budget BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer ABERDEEN — Amid the shouting and dissent that could be heard through the closed doors of an executive session, attendees at the Sept. 2 Township Council meeting were left waiting before the meeting got under way almost two hours after its scheduled start…

  • They’re back!

    “Glitter & Koi” by Sven Widen The Art Alliance of Monmouth County in Red Bank has ended its summer sojourn with the September exhibit “We’re Back.” This month’s theme celebrates the 30-year anniversary of the Art Alliance, located at 33 Monmouth St. in Red Bank. The window artists are Sven Widen and Lizzi Schippert, a…

  • Photo

    MATT DENTON Breanna Feerst, 14, is first to cross the finish line at the 14th annual Saturday in the Park 5K “Women Taking Steps to Help Women” Aug. 30 at Holmdel Park. Sponsored by the Jersey Shore Running Club, the run benefits local nonprofits that serve women and children.

  • Local volunteer aids hurricane evacuees

    Aberdeen woman joins Red Cross relief effort in Louisiana BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer ABERDEEN — This time, the levees held as Hurricane Gustav pummeled the shores of the still-recovering Gulf Coast, and an Aberdeen resident was there to assist in the storm’s wake. Diana Noble is one of nine volunteers deployed to Louisiana…

  • County challenges FEMA on flood maps

    Burry faults Army Corps for neglect of flood barriers BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer Monmouth County has filed an appeal to block the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from implementing revised flood zone maps this week. Freeholder Director Lillian Burry The county filed the appeal with FEMA’s Region II office in New York by the…

  • U.N. Peace Day marked with programs at UUC

    MIDDLETOWN — All are welcome to a celebration of the 2008 United Nations Peace Day on Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation Meetinghouse, 1475 West Front St., Lincroft. “Weaving Peace: What We Can Do” is sponsored by the Monmouth Center for World Religion and Ethical Thought. Beginning at 1 p.m., events will include…