Category: Independent News

  • Towns can join new Revolutionary byway

    Scenic route would stretch from central Monmouth to Bayshore BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer Monmouth County has invited 16 communities to participate in the development of a Revolutionary War scenic byway. According to Zunilda Rodriguez, principal planner in the Long-Range Planning Department of the Monmouth County Planning Department, the 16 municipalities invited to participate…

  • ‘Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur’

    BY MARIE MABER Staff Writer You’ve seen them and wondered – or you’ve passed them with a chill. Road shrines seem to have proliferated over the past few years. “Route 182” They’re created out of love, loss and a sense of necessity – but they rarely last in a state of beauty for more than…

  • League challenge to COAH rules

    Appeal to seek stay on deadline for filing housing plans BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer The New Jersey State League of Municipalities (NJLM) will appeal revised regulations adopted by the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) in June that set the number of affordable housing units towns must provide. In announcing the action, the…

  • Transforming Heaven and Earth

    Large-scale paintings by artist Joan Hierholzer are currently featured in an exhibition titled “Transforming Heaven and Earth: Artistic Visions of Technology” at the Monmouth Museum in Lincroft. The exhibition, which runs through Aug. 3, features powerful and dramatic murals and paintings of industrial and technological subjects. Intrigued by the role of technology in our civilization,…

  • Baykeeper hosts 7th annual Oyster Bash

    The Sandy Hook-based NY/NJ Baykeeper hosted the seventh annual Oyster Bash at the Monmouth Boat Club in Red Bank on June 26. Dozens of volunteer oyster gardeners planted oysters that were “gardened” in local waterways onto Baykeeper’s existing oyster reef in the Navesink River. Volunteers counted, measured and planted oysters on the reef. Four boats…

  • IN THE ARTS

    Compiled by Gloria Stravelli Designed by Eileen Russell Gerber The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’sNext Stage Ensemble presents a free performance of “Richard II” at 7 p.m. July 23 at the Middletown Main Library, 55 New Monmouth Road. For information, call 732-671-3700 or visit www.mtpl.org. The Borders Emerging Artist Series returns 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug.…

  • Court rules for Matawan in train station suit

    Legal challenge over developer for Aberdeen Matawan station BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer MATAWAN – It seems as if the legal maneuvering over the Aberdeen Matawan Train Station redevelopment has been settled, at least for now. According to court documents, the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled July 14 that the…

  • Miniature golf tournament to benefit ALS charity

    TINTON FALLS – The Rock & Roll Music Fund will host its first miniature golf tournament to benefit Joan Dancy and PALS, which is dedicated to helping people living with Lou Gehrig’s disease. The event will be held at Twin Brook Golf Center in Tinton Falls beginning at 11 a.m. on Monday, July 28. The…

  • Board wants out of cell tower deal

    BOE responds to opposition from residents BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN – The Board of Education doesn’t allow cell phones at High School South and now is having second thoughts about letting a cell tower be erected on the school property. After hearing residents’ complaints at the July 16 meeting, the Board of Education…