Category: Independent News

  • Back to school is a time to help Third World kids

    MIDDLETOWN — By adding some items to their back-to-school shopping lists and saving the shoe boxes from their new shoes, Middletown-area kids are joining the effort to share a powerful message of hope with some 8 million disadvantaged children in more than 90 countries worldwide. Through Operation Christmas Child, billed as the world’s largest Christmas…

  • Keyport adopts $8.7 million amended budget

    Average homeowner’s tax bill will rise by $201 for 2008 BY LORI ANNE OLIWA Correspondent KEYPORT -— Keyport residents can expect an even higher property tax increase with the passing of an amended $8,728,120 budget by the Borough Council at a special meeting on Aug. 27. The amount represents an approximately 2.3 percent increase over…

  • NOTES AROUND TOWN

    LORI ANN OLIWA Members of the Keyport Business Alliance managed to avoid being splattered during a performance by watermelon-smashing comedian Gallagher, who appeared Sept. 12. Ed Burlew (l-r), KBA event chairman, Terry Musson, KBA treasurer, Gallagher and his “sledge-o-matic,” and Nina Jeandron, KBA secretary. The Master Gardeners of Monmouth County, and Monmouth County 4-H will…

  • Ready. Set. Go.

    MATT DENTON Runners sprint at the start of the 14th annual Saturday in the Park 5K "Women Taking Steps to Help Women" held Aug. 30 at Holmdel Park. The run, sponsored by the Jersey Shore Running Club, benefited local nonprofits that help women and children in Monmouth and Ocean counties.

  • Mayor sounds alarm about pace of spending

    Buccellato asks dept. heads to look for cuts BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer MATAWAN — Mayor Paul Buccellato announced at the beginning of the Sept. 2 Borough Council meeting that the borough was well past the earmark for what should be spent from the municipal budget. Buccellato announced that spending had actually outpaced the…

  • Ordinance limiting use of fields introduced

    Hearing set for Sept. 16 council meeting BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer MATAWAN — An ordinance addressing use of borough fields and parks was introduced at the Sept. 2 Borough Council meeting and will have a public hearing Sept. 16 at the next council meeting. If passed, the ordinance would make it mandatory to…

  • Matawan man pleads guilty to identity theft

    FREEHOLD — Salvatore Rivello, 56, of Matawan, pleaded guilty Sept. 3 to one count of second-degree theft by deception, four counts of third-degree identity theft and one count of fourth-degree deceptive business practices, according to a press release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. The guilty pleas were entered before state Superior Court Judge Francis…

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    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…