Category: Independent News
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Bid Rig salesman gets four months
Employee sentenced for bribing Neptune official BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer NEWARK – A salesman for International Trucks of Central Jersey was sentenced to four months in prison Oct. 31 for his role in Operation Bid Rig. Robert Feldman, 51, of Brick, admitted in May to handing over $6,500 in bribes to Richard Messer,…
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Furniture store owner indicted
MIDDLETOWN – A Monmouth County grand jury returned an indictment charging a furniture store owner of consumer fraud Oct. 29. William C. Neumann Jr., 61, of the Leonardo section of Middletown, was charged with second-degree theft by deception, third-degree theft of movable property, second-degree misconduct by a corporate official and one count each of the…
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Dr. Lawrence S. Sykoff, head of school at Ranney School, Tinton Falls, and Ranney’s Upper School administration and the college office will host “The Evolving Landscape of College Admissions,” an evening with Dr. Jeffrey Brenzel, Yale University’s dean of undergraduate admissions, Nov. 13 from 7-9 p.m. at the Ranney commons. Brenzel will discuss college admissions…
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Group scares up chilling stories
Garden State Horror Writers offers support for writers of dark genre BY LARRY RAPPOPORT Correspondent What frightens you? Is it a tarantula the size of a Hummer? A psychologically deranged killer? Or perhaps dinner with the in-laws? ANDREW MILLER staff Jonathan Maberry discusses the art of writing for the horror genre during a meeting of…
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Photo
ERIC SUCAR staff A group of seagulls “park” in a lot off West Front Street in downtown Keyport on a cloudy and brisk Saturday, Nov. 3.
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IN THE ARTS
The annual Mudslingers’ Pottery Open House will be held Sunday, Nov. 11, 1-6 p.m. and Monday, Nov. 12, 4-8 p.m. Beautiful wheel thrown and hand built functional and decorative stoneware pottery by Lauren Bellero, and vibrant oil and watercolor paintings by Kathleen Stephens will be featured. The event will take place at 39 Leroy Place…
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From the Vault
Actor Herb Wolke dresses in full Abraham Lincoln garb to promote a local one-man presentation, “For the People.” The photo ran in August 1985.
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Did the punishment fit Merla’s crime?
Officials’ opinions vary on whether 22-month sentence was enough BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer John Merla is going to jail, but nobody seems happy about it. On Oct. 23, three years after his 2005 arrest, the former Keyport mayor was sentenced to 22 months in a federal penitentiary for accepting $23,000 in bribes from…
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Cell tower may be built on h.s. grounds
BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN – Students of Middletown High School South may be asking, “Can you hear me now?,” after the approval of a bid to construct a cell tower on school grounds. At the Oct. 23 Board of Education meeting, approval was given to New York SMSA Limited Partnership, representing Verizon Wireless,…
