Category: Independent News
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Revised plans presented for waterfront park
Plans reduce parking, add green space and welcome center BY DENNIS JORDAN Correspondent KEYPORT – The most recent design plan for the new waterfront park, featuring expanded green areas but reducing the number of parking spaces, was presented at the Keyport Borough Council meeting on Tuesday night. Borough Engineer Donald Norbut made the presentation to…
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Twp. man convicted of armed robbery
ABERDEEN – A township man was convicted of first-degree armed robbery of a taxi driver last week. On March 13, a Monmouth County jury convicted Fernando Vasquez Volano, 26, of Aberdeen Township, of the crimes of first-degree armed robbery, third-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and fourth-degree unlawful possession of a weapon,…
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Holmdel BOE budget up $2.1M
Spending plan calls for 4-cent increase over last year BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer HOLMDEL- The Board of Education has approved a $50,051,557 budget for 2008-09, an increase of $2.1 million over last year’s budget. The board approved the budget at the March 12 meeting. There will be a public hearing on the budget…
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Police investigate copper thefts from job sites
MIDDLETOWN – The Middletown Township Police Department is investigating four incidents of the theft of copper from two residential job sites in the Belford area of the township, according to a press release from the police department. On Feb. 27, March 7, March 10 and March 13, officers responded to houses under construction on East…
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Mat-Ab OKs $63.3M BOE budget
School budget up 3.9 percent over 2007-08 plan BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer ABERDEEN – The Matawan-Aberdeen Regional Board of Education unanimously adopted a $63,356,016 2008-09 school budget at the special meeting March 4. The budget represents an increase of 3.9 percent from last year. The district spending plan calls for a tax levy…
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Middletown officials take gov’t on the road
Park, flooding issues aired at community forum BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN – Any issue, no matter how big or small, was open for discussion at the first of four neighborhood meetings held at Fairview Elementary School on March 13. Topics ranging from police using their personal days, how the township works with the…
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2 sentenced for armed robbery
BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer MATAWAN- Twomen convicted of the armed robbery of the Sun National Bank on Main Street and two other banks were recently sentenced to federal prison. According to U.S.Attorney Christopher Christie, on Feb. 26, Kreig “Chub” Prosper, 25, of Woodbridge, was sentenced to 66 years and two months in prison,…
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District officials aim to build support for budget
Lowest increase in decade proposed after two years of defeat BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer HAZLET – The district’s proposed school budget increase is the lowest in nine years and school officials are telling anybody who will listen. “We came here tonight to speak to the people that we do not speak to at every…
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Roadwork will mean detours for drivers
BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer HOLMDEL – Drivers will experience some detours due to road improvements and alterations currently under way around the access points to the Garden State Parkway. Monmouth County Engineer Joseph Ettore and his staffwere present at theMarch 6 Township Committee meeting to outline the ongoing roadwork projects necessitated by the…
