Category: Independent News

  • Fossil Finds

    The O’Brien family of East Windsor, John III (l-r), Christine and John, look through silt for fossils during a Fossil Hunt held at Poricy Park on July 13. A fossil hunter sorts through pebbles in a screen at the Middletown park. Stacie Stroz, Middletown, examines a find during the hunt. PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff

  • Habitat will build on Matawan site

    Project will be chapter’s first in Bayshore BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer MATAWAN – A family will get the opportunity to own a home when Habitat for Humanity breaks ground for the first time in the borough. “Right now we are only doing some engineering work and looking at what grading we are going…

  • Two suspects arrested in theft at restaurant

    MIDDLETOWN – Police made two arrests last week after a township woman reported that the pair had stolen her pocketbook. Police were summoned to a restaurant on Route 35 in Middletown on July 7 after an employee reported that two patrons had stolen her pocketbook from her work area, according to a press release from…

  • Byrnes wants budget expedited

    Committeeman says bipartisan effort needed BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN – Committeeman Sean Byrnes wants to see the budget process end earlier than the June 30 date when the municipal budget was formally voted on. “I’d love to see a budget committee with one committee member from each party to engage in the process…

  • Driver faces road rage, lewdness charges

    BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer HOLMDEL – A family from Atlantic Highlands got more than they bargained for when they pulled into the Holmdel Commons shopping center on Route 35 and bore the brunt of a Hazlet man’s road rage. According to police, at 7:41 p.m. on July 5, Andrew Plant, 38, of Hazlet,…

  • Visit historic homes during 40th annual house tour

    A Victorian-style home in Ocean Grove OCEAN GROVE – The Historical Society of Ocean Grove will hold its 40th annual house tour on Friday, July 18. The tour is a selfguided walking tour within this Victorian community, which attracts visitors from throughout the world. The tour will include guided tours of the eight most beautiful…

  • NOTES

    FRANK GALIPO Charlene Brown (l) and her daughter Caiti Brown share a moment during the second Annual Daniel R. Shalloo Memorial Picnic and Softball Tournament at Cross Farm Park in Holmdel. The event raised money for Caiti’s cancer treatments. Holmdel Community Church, 40 Main St., will offer a Summer Faith and Fitness Group 6:30 p.m.…

  • ZEST

    Images from Dee Ann McCarthy’s series “Through the Porthole.”

  • Green roofs, walls becoming latest trends

    It’s not what you think and, no, you did not forget to scrape off the moss up there. Green roofs and walls are all the rage and are appearing in evergreater numbers on “green” houses, corporate headquarters and public buildings. Used by fashion designers, interior decorators and restaurateurs, these verdant backdrops are a lush and…