Category: Independent News

  • Board and teachers reach early contract agreement

    Salary increases will average 4.5 percent per year BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer The Board of Education and the Middletown Township Education Association have a collective bargaining agreement good through June 30, 2011. According to board member Joan Minnuies, this is the earliest the two groups have come to an agreement. They started the process…

  • Getting Ready to Cast

    ERIC SUCAR staff With help from her father, Pat Butler, 7-year-old Sage Butler of Red Bank makes the final preparations on her fishing rod before the start of the annual Kids’ Fishing Derby held at Stevenson Park in Shadow Lake in Lincroft on Saturday, April 26. The annual event, sponsored by Middletown Parks, Recreation and…

  • Celebrating the Earth

    Above: Angel, a Moluccan cockatoo, puts on a show with Freehold Township’s Terri Jones during the 10th annual Bayonet Farm Earth Day Celebration. Angel became a resident of the Arcadia Bird Sanctuary after its owner died in the 9/11 attacks. Far right: Holmdel’s Matthew Ameduri, 11, uses a spray bottle to simulate rain to show…

  • IN THE ARTS

    Join the Monmouth County Arts Council and The Latino Chamber of Commerce for a classical marimba concert and wine tasting reception to benefit the arts council at the Kirby House in Elberon, a historic mansion, hosted by Leigh Howard Stevens ThursdayMay 1, at 7 p.m. Stevens and Nora Clerc will present a program of Bach,…

  • ‘Weekend in Old Monmouth’ features tour of historic sites

    Monmouth County’s first “Weekend in Old Monmouth” historic tour will open the doors of 32 local historic sites all at the same time – from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 3 and from noon to 5 p.m. on May 4. “Independent and local historic sites are generally operated independently of one another,” said…

  • We’ve been there

    Familiar places and local landmarks arewaiting to be revisited in an art exhibit of watercolor paintings by local artist Linné Grant. “Places We All Have Been” will run through May 10 at the Monmouth Beach Cultural Center at 128 Ocean Ave. A reception with the artist will be held on Saturday from 6-8 p.m.; all…

  • Matawan still emotional over attorney controversy

    BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer MATAWAN – Borough taxpayers are still questioning the motives that prevented Borough Attorney Pat Menna’s reappointment earlier this month. After serving as the borough attorney for the past two years, Pasquale Menna, of Menna, Supko and Casagrande, in Shrewsbury, was rejected as attorney for the borough by the Democrats…

  • Talented students showcased at BCC arts festival

    BY LINDA DeNICOLA Correspondent Although Brookdale Community College in Lincroft has been an integral part of Monmouth County for a number of decades, it is still a work in progress. Endeavoring to remain on the cutting edge of creative arts education, faculty members have joined together to promote an arts festival that they hope will…

  • McCray sentenced for stabbing of store owner

    MIDDLETOWN – Jeffrey Trent Mc- Cray, 21, of Atlantic Highlands, was sentenced to a 12-year state prison term April 18 for his role in the 2006 stabbing of a Middletown Township bicycle store owner. According to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, McCray must serve 85 percent, or more than 10 years and two months, before…