Category: Independent News

  • 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…

  • Input sought for disaster survey

    ABERDEEN – The township is working withMonmouth County’s Emergency Management Office to identify natural hazards and plan for future disasters as part of the county’s Multi-jurisdictional Natural Hazard Mitigation Planning Project. Residents are being asked to complete a survey, available online, to help officials gauge the level of knowledge local citizens have about natural disaster…

  • Olympians bring home the gold, silver & bronze

    Hazlet Rockets excel in N.J. Special Olympic Winter Games BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer The Hazlet Rockets left for the Olympic games with their snowshoes and skis and returned with 19 medals and a bunch of fun memories of competing with friends. Clockwise from top: Hazlet Rockets pose at the New Jersey Special Olympics Winter…

  • ‘Overture’ original quilts at library

    Innovative design, vivid colors and fine hand craftsmanship converge in an exhibit of original quilts created by members of Rebecca’s Reel Quilters currently on display at Middletown Main Library. “Raffle” Showcasing two dozen exuberant quilts by 21 talented quilters from the Monmouth/Ocean area, “Overture, an exhibit of fine hand-crafted original quilts,” is a dazzling exhibit…

  • Hazlet planners reject rezoning of tract

    Board votes new zone is not consistent with master plan BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer HAZLET – The Planning Board sent a controversial ordinance back to the Township Committee last week, after deciding the new zoning isn’t consistent with the master plan. In what came as a shock to the residents in attendance who waited…

  • Voices raised for peace

    The Shrewsbury Chorale, with the Garden State Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, joins singers worldwide in the Song of Peace project when it presents Haydn’s “Lord NelsonMass (Mass in Time ofWar)” at Freehold Presbyterian Church on March 8. The Shrewsbury Chorale is proud to be the first NJ choral group to register as a participant in…

  • Township attorney’s pay target of lawsuit

    Court calls for ordinance setting compensation BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN – At the monthly workshop meeting on Feb. 4, the Township Committee discussed drafting an ordinance to establish compensation for the township attorney, The attorney’s salary became an issue following a ruling by Superior Court Judge Lawrence Lawson thatMiddletown had incorrectly fixed township…

  • 38th annual Monmouth arts festival

    The 38th annualMonmouth Festival of the Arts, New Jersey’s largest art invitational, will take place April 5-9 at Monmouth Reform Temple, 332 Hance Ave., Tinton Falls. The event will begin with the Artists Gala Reception at 7:30 p.m. April 5 – an opportunity to meet the artists, enjoy a catered cocktail party, and browse the…

  • A Process of Intention

    ‘AProcess of Intention: Artists and the Methods to their Creation,” currently at Frederick Galleries inAllenhurst, is an exhibition of works by nine artists working with recurring themes and diverse materials. “Bayside Illusion” by Jennie Meares The conventional elements of ground and the material qualities of oil, watercolor, wax, pastel, acrylic, ink, film, graphite and emulsions…