Category: Independent News

  • CVA gallery: Making their marks

    Fifty artists create works for exhibit showcasing drawings BY MARIE MABER Correspondent As county residents well know, Brookdale is a community college. It stands to reason that the art gallery located at the front of the art building, the Center for the Visual Arts (CVA), is a center for teaching and learning. Exhibitions that draw…

  • Special Eyes on the Environment

    The Monmouth Museum will host for the second year an exhibition of environmental photography by students with special needs attending CPC Behavioral Healthcare’s High Point School located in Morganville. “Sheep” by Jhanea of High Point School The gala opening ceremony will be held 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 10. The exhibit will run through…

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    More than 100 firefighters battled a blaze that destroyed a QuickChek food store Feb. 10 and led to the evacuation of all four stores at a Cherry Tree Farm Road strip mall near Route 35 in Middletown, authorities said.

  • Child Find effort under way

    The Middletown Township Board of Education is conducting its “Child Find” effort for Middletown residents. Parents and/or guardians with concerns about the educational development of a preschool child including homeless and migrant children who will be age 3 within the next year, children including homeless and migrant ages 3-5, should contact the township’s Office of…

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    DAVID BEALES Kathleen Lindsey (l-r), Bertha Kellum, Anna Stevens, Phyliss Amanda Walker and Elnora Lucile Gardenhire perform in “A Stitch in Time,” a musical presentation about the joys of sisterhood and the trials of life as a slave, during a Black History Month event at the Middletown Main Library Feb. 10.

  • Crowd does not give governor an E-ZPass

    Corzine explains need for toll increases; residents pan program BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Gov. Jon Corzine received a less than warm welcome at Marlboro High School on Feb. 4 when he came to Monmouth County to present his financial restructuring and debt reduction program for New Jersey. PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Anthony Strangia…

  • Train station bldg. slated for repairs

    Clifton: Continued deterioration could mean loss of bldg. BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer The historic building at the Matawan train station will be getting some TLC from NJ Transit. CHRIS KELLY staff NJ Transit plans to do stabilizing work on the historical building at Matawan Train Station. “The station exterior needs immediate work, so…

  • Keyport man indicted for robbery, assault

    AMonmouth County grand jury returned a two-count indictment on Feb. 6, charging Ryan Fallon, 20, of Keyport, with one count of first-degree robbery and one count of second-degree aggravated assault. According to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, at approximately 3:15 p.m. on Oct. 11, the Brookdale Community College Police Department received a call reporting a…

  • Resident: Young adults can’t settle in Mid’twn

    Blames use of RCAs for lack of affordable housing BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer Young adults are being shut out of living in the town they grew up in because Middletown sends affordable housing funds out of town, a resident told the Township Committee last week. Matthew Morehead, 27, West Front Street, told the committee’s…