Category: Independent News

  • Township newsletter, calendar win awards

    ABERDEEN – The Aberdeen Update newsletter and the 2007 Anniversary Calendar both received a Special Recognition Award at the 46th annual Municipal Public Information Contest held in December. The newsletter and the calendar were a collaborative effort between Township Manager Stuart Brown, Parness and Associates Public Relations of Aberdeen, Leckner Design of Matawan, and The…

  • German School hosts world-renowned puppeteer

    HOLMDEL – On Jan. 27, from 2 to 3 p.m., the German School of Monmouth County presents the only New Jersey performance ofDerKiepenkasper, a traditional German puppet theater. Performances of “The Three Magic Feathers” and “The Trip to Pirate Island,” will be presented by world-renowned puppeteer Uwe Spillman. Spillman’s 2008 world tour, which begins in…

  • Martial Arts with Hearts fundraiser

    MIDDLETOWN – The fourth annual Martial Arts With Hearts (MAWH) fundraising event will take place Sunday, Jan. 27, at the Collins Arena located at Brookdale Community College’s Lincroft campus. The event will showcase the talents of martial arts students and instructors, while culminating this year’s fundraising efforts. Students will perform with weapons and demonstrate various…

  • Stalking bill expected to be reintroduced

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Although it received last-minute unanimous passage in the lame duck state Assembly with an 80-0 vote, bill A- 4354, which sought to increase the penalties and alter the definition of stalking, died due to lack of time and a lack of action in the state Senate. The billwas introduced in…

  • Doering: State school aid formula skewed

    District to receive only 2 percent more in state aid BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN – Middletown School DistrictBusinessAdministratorWilliamDoering feels like he is standing on a soapbox when it comes to discussing the state school aid formula. Doering said that theMiddletown School District could stand to lose more than $12 million under the new…

  • Photo

    ERIC SUCAR staff Aberdeen Township Community Emergency Response Team members Neil Olufsen (l-r) and Ofer Elshten evaluate the condition of Joe Fox, posing as an injured victim, during training exercises held at the Fire Training Grounds in Aberdeen Jan. 12. More photos, page 7

  • CERT-ified volunteers

    PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Top to bottom: The Aberdeen Community Emergency Response Team graduated its fourth class on Saturday, Jan. 12, after final training exercises. CERT volunteers Neil Olufsen (l-r), Ofer Elshten and Mike Flatley discuss the best way to enter a building. Team members carry “injured victim” Leo Avila out of the building…

  • Advocate for disabled loses human rights post

    Schwebel says ADA lawsuit held against her BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer The Middletown Township Town Hall meeting room was filled with people newly appointed to volunteer positions on Jan. 6, but that’s not why Carolyn Schwebel was in attendance. Sitting in a wheelchair at the end of the second row waiting for the public…

  • $564K federal grant will fund 180’s programs

    BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer HAZLET – The nonprofit 180 Turning Lives Around now has 564,000 more ways to help end domestic violence and sexual assault in the community. The nonprofit organization received a $564,000 grant as part of the Senate Appropriations Committee FY 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill. The funding was announced Dec. 27 by…