Category: Independent News

  • Lucent, taxes among top issues in Holmdel race

    The top issues in the race for two Holmdel Township Committee seats this year are the future of Lucent, balancing the budget, and taxes, taxes, taxes. Democrats Janet Berk and Michael Sockol will try to break the GOP’s majority on the committee while Repu Karen E. Bowes The top issues in the race for two…

  • Mayor, two council seats up for grabs in Matawan

    BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer Two sitting members of the local government are battling it out for the mayor’s seat, and four more candidates are vying for two seats on the Matawan Borough Council. Mary Aufseeser Democratic Mayor Mary Aufseeser has served in the position since January 2006. An employee with the Matawan branch…

  • Group seeks mentors for children of 9/11 victims

    BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN MIDDLETOWN – Tuesday’s Children, a nonprofit that provides mentors to children who lost loved ones in the 9/11 attacks, is looking for volunteers in the Middletown area. The group says there are currently a few families in the area who are looking to provide their children with a mentor…

  • Two seats up for grabs on Hazlet committee

    BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer Scott Aagre HAZLET – Two familiar names on the ballot will be opposing two relative newcomers to the township political scene on Nov. 6. Scott Aagre and Republican running mate David Tinker are facing Democrats Joseph Marques and Gerard Jaume for two three-year terms on the Township Committee. Aagre is…

  • Tea Time

    One of the many tables at the annual “Tea on the Titanic” show held at the Keyport Yacht Club on Saturday is filled with tea, pastries and conversation. The event, which was hosted by the Keyport Historical Society, included tea, refreshments and a fashion show. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Red Bank police officer indicted for misconduct

    On Oct. 15, a Monmouth County Grand Jury returned an indictment charging Red Bank Police Officer Steven Adams with two counts of seconddegree official misconduct, and one count each of second-degree aggravate assault and fourth-degree falsifying records, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. The charges stem from an incident that occurred shortly after the…

  • Boni Bates’ gift came early in life

    Co-founders of ghost hunting group welcome skeptics BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer The visions began when Boni Bates turned five. The first grader had gone to get something out of her bedroom closet. When she looked up, she saw the ghostly faces of an elderly man and woman staring down at her. Then she…

  • Haunted prison a place of sadness and despair

    Travel Channel show features Brick woman BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – Even the weather cooperated when the Garden State Ghost Hunters Society visited the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia in June. Thunder boomed. Lightning flickered eerily from the skylights and across the stone walls of the medieval looking prison built back…

  • From the Vault

    Former President George Bush campaigns for re-election in September 1992 in Middletown. At his left is former Middletown Committeewoman Rosemarie Peters and to his right is former Monmouth County Freeholder Director Harry Larrison.