Category: Independent News

  • The Boss at the Basie: Let the bidding begin

    So you had a dream that you got into a bidding war for a pair of tickets to a Bruce Springsteen concert. The guy you were bidding against kept upping the ante, but you weren’t about to be outdone and you finally trumped him and snared the elusive tickets. What if you weren’t dreaming, would…

  • DPW head to fill in as manager

    ABERDEEN – Public Works Director James Lauro has been named interimtownship manager. Lauro will serve as manager while the township searches for a replacement for former manager Stuart Brown. “I am just filling in until they can find someone,” said Lauro, who has been an employee of Aberdeen Township for 41 years. “Basically, we are…

  • Artists look at impacts of sprawl

    The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts (SICA) in Long Branch is hosting an exhibition titled “Sprawling” through April 4.T “Electric 1” by Leah Oates h e show highlights artists whose work investigates the changes that occur on the social, political, economic, ecological and geographic levels when a populated area stretches, swells, spreads and sprawls.…

  • Hazlet sets public forum on zoning for March 19

    Committee will air issues involved in rezoning tract BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer HAZLET – Residents looking for answers regarding the controversial rezoning of a property on Poole Avenue can expect to get them on March 19. At the Township Committee’s March 4 meeting, Mayor James DiNardo announced that a special meeting would be held…

  • Blithely spring forward!

    Long ago and far away, almost every living room in our little Bavarian town had a plant called “Zimmer Linde.” These Abutilon hybrids, a hibiscus relative, are nowundergoing a renaissance in the garden.Newbreeding has thembursting out all over. Heat- and humidity-tolerant, they add a newdimension.An excellent specimen is Orange Hot Lava, blooming in early June…

  • Middletown gives update on new COAH rules

    BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN – On March 6, the Township Committee and the Planning Board held a joint meeting at the Middletown Arts Center to discuss the township’s affordable housing issues. Township Planner Anthony Mercantante and special Mount Laurel counsel Jeffrey Surenian spoke about the revised affordable housing rules issued by the state…

  • Tailgating ban set for acts that draw younger crowd

    Public forum set for March 18 on underage drinking at arts center BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer HOLMDEL- Consumption of alcohol while tailgating at the PNC Bank Arts Center will be limited to older crowds during this summer’s concert series. According to Joe Orlando, spokesman for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which owns and…

  • Planner seeks solutions to Wawa traffic issues

    Mercantante looks at methods to calm traffic near site BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN – Township Planner Anthony Mercantante is looking for ways to alleviate traffic congestion in the area of a proposed Wawa on Route 35. Mercantante’s search for solutions was initiated by the Township Committee, which referred residents’ objections to the proposedWawa…

  • Boro to repeat selection process

    BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer MATAWAN – Members of the Borough Council will be sifting through a new pile of proposals from professionals who want to provide services to the borough. The council will be reviewing the most recent proposals because a resolution, approved at the Borough Council meeting Feb. 19, rejected the previous…