Category: Independent News

  • District’s secretary retires after 28 years

    Reni Mey’s career spanned 10 superintendents BY MARIANNE KLIGMAN Correspondent Renata Mey, longtime Middletown School District secretary to the superintendent, with one of her first bosses, Thompson Middle School principal Pat Houston. MIDDLETOWN – Renata Mey, the longtime confidential secretary to the superintendent, retires in January after more than 28 years of service in the…

  • Polar Bears poised for icy plunge in Sea Bright

    BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer Polar Bear Plungers get ready to take a dip Jan. 1, 2007, in Sea Bright. SEA BRIGHT – Have you ever felt the urge to take a dip in the ocean on a crisp January afternoonwhile raising somemoney for charity? Well, the Sons of Ireland Polar Bear Plungers have, and…

  • Program for at-risk new moms comes to city

    VNACJ opens Healthy Families program at Broadway location BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH – The Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey (VNACJ) has begun operating one of its programs out of a Long Branch building in order to cater to atrisk first-time moms in the area. Healthy Families was started by the VNACJ…

  • ‘New Beginnings 2008’ Happy tales = happy tails

    Twelve new happy tales, 12 wonderful adoption stories are featured in the 2008 New Beginnings Calendar from the Monmouth County SPCA. This year’s photos were taken by photographers Joan LaBanca and Scott Longfield and volunteer Val Craig and highlight 12 heartwarming stories of pets (dogs, cats and even a rabbit) adopted from the MCSPCA. The…

  • 2007: The year in photos

    CHRIS KELLY staff Clockwise from top: A winter storm glazed trees with ice and left plenty of parking spaces open at the White Street lot in Red Bank. Reindeer shadows march down Middle Road during the Hazlet Township Holiday Parade Dec. 1. Children cool off under the spray of a fire hose on a hot…

  • Photo

    JEFF GRANIT staff Holmdel’s Alex Diekmann (No. 20) is fouled by Midddletown North’s Laura Mahoney (l) as she drives to the basket in the Bayshore Holiday Tournament in Holmdel on Dec. 26.

  • Antonucci, Sachs leave a changed committee

    BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer HAZLET – In 2004, when Republicans BridgetAntonucci andMichael Sachs won their seats on the Township Committee, the Republican Party gained full control. With Sachs winning his re-election bid and Antonucci joining the committee for the first time, it looked at the time like it would be a Republican majority for…

  • Shelter warns: Avoid ‘free to good home’ ads

    Aberdeen man facing animal cruelty charge BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer There is nothing Ursula Goetz loves more than a litter of cute, cuddly kittens. Ursula Goetz and a shelter cat So when stories come out about animal cruelty, she wonders why people don’t just put their pets up for adoption at a shelter as…

  • Women dance their way to fellowship

    Core of Fire uses the healing power of dance BY LINDA DeNICOLA Correspondent Memories of when they danced together as young women led Red Bank nativesMargaret RiceMoir and Carol Penn to form a dance company made up of mature women and call it the Core of Fire Interfaith Dance Ministry. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff…