Category: Independent News

  • A walk in the park spoiled by hunting

    Resident: Hunting closes parkland to recreational use BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer Signs warn park visitors to steer clear of hunting areas. MIDDLETOWN – Joy Gamache was simply taking a walk through Tatum Park when she saw sign after sign stating “Deer Hunting: Area Closed”. “I had tried to go for a walk in Tatum…

  • Approval sought for 19-home development

    Planning Board hearing carried to March 5 BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN – An hour of testimony and questioning about an application to construct 19 single-family homes on a tract off Chapel Hill Road was sidetracked last week by a discussion on cluster housing. The application seeks preliminary and final major subdivision approval to…

  • Libraries launch historic archival resource

    Joint project puts Red Bank Register archive online MIDDLETOWN – With the application of the latest digital technology, and the efforts of many individuals, users of the information superhighway will be able to view online the entire archive of the Middletown/Red Bank community newspaper The Red Bank Register, which published from 1871 through 1991. To…

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    ALEX TOWLE Strong winds knocked down a tree branch that cut a power line, sparking a fire in the dry leaves along a road in Holmdel.

  • Middletown FD receives $114K grant

    BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN – Sixty-six feet belonging to 33 firefighters in Middletown will be receiving new boots, thanks to a recent grant awarded to the Middletown Township Fire Department. The fire department will receive $114,320 in funding, which will serve to purchase four thermal imaging cameras used to locate victims, lost firefighters,…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Eileen Sherry, of Bayonne, looks through a scope to spot ducks, geese and loons that inhabit Sandy Hook during a winter walk led by a N.J. Audubon Society naturalist Jan. 5.

  • Teens text message to raise money

    Youths expected to raise $100K in 10 minutes at Feb. 28 fundraiser BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Text messaging, a popular mode of communication, will help raise funds for the David S. Zocchi Brain Tumor Center, Long Branch. Parents should not get mad next month when their teens say they will “ttyl” or “talk to…

  • Commissioner upholds Witmer suspension

    Attny. for schools superintendent says he will appeal BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer After months of delay, the Middletown Board of Education finally has a decision on the district’s suspended superintendent. On Dec. 24, state Education Commissioner Lucille Davy ruled that former Middletown Schools Superintendent David Witmer should be suspended for the remainder of his…

  • IN THE ARTS

    Danke schoen, Wayne Wayne Newton will bring his spectacular show to the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank Thursday, Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $80 and $50 and are on sale now at the box office at 99 Monmouth St., online at countbasietheatre.org or by calling (732) 842-9000. Newton is no stranger to the…