Category: Independent News
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Boro seeks NJT’s OK to relocate day laborers
Council wants attorney general’s opinion on registration proposal BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer “… I really don’t think it’s the municipality’s job to go out and document people… ” – William Malley Councilman MATAWAN – Plans to move day laborers from in front of the 7-Eleven to an unused portion of the train station…
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Keyport looking for a few good developers
Boro to accept requests for qualifications for Aeromarine site BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer FILE PHOTO The Aeromarine property, located on the Raritan Bay in Keyport, the subject of several lawsuits and the focus of redevelopment plans in the borough. KEYPORT – Anyone interested in developing Aeromarine? On Sept. 18 the borough authorized an…
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Ocean advocates fight offshore LNG ‘island’
Corzine asks for protective status to block facility BY AMANDA BELING Staff Writer Local officials and environmentalists held a press conference Sept. 7 to voice their opposition to a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage facility within miles of the coast. At the press conference held on the Sea Bright beach, Mayor…
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Area Muslims begin observance of Ramadan
Month of fasting, personal sacrifice lasts through Oct. 12 BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer Ramadan, the monthlong devotion that includes fasting and acts of good will, began last week for Muslims throughout the world. CHRIS KELLY staff Muslim men gather for prayer in South River last week, the first week of the holy month…
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Councilman hopes to document day laborers
Buccellato says boro’s muster area should be moved to train station BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer Paul Buccellato MATAWAN – Councilman Paul Buccellato would like documents for undocumented workers. On Friday, Buccellato, a Republican, issued a press release saying he wants to set up a voluntary registration program for the undocumented workers who wait…
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Six years later, memory of 37 victims kept alive
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer People file into Middletown’s World Trade Center Memorial Gardens, where 37 township residents who lost their lives during the attacks are commemorated. The service was held on the sixth anniversary of the attacks last week. MIDDLETOWN – Sept. 11 in Middletown was overcast and rainy, a sharp contrast to the…
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St. George’s-by-the-River listed on historic registers
Architecture, history qualify church for state, nat’l designations BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer St. George’s-by-the-River Episcopal Church is an example of Gothic Revival-style architecture. The church, which will celebrate the 100th anniversary next year since it was consecrated in 1908, has been named to the National and N.J. Historic Registries for, among other things, its…
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From the Vault
Director Mark Fleming observes Eric Galipo, of Asbury Park, during an audition for a production at the Henderson Theatre, Lincroft, in May of 1993.
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‘Millions’ of dead fish wash ashore
Officials believe lack of oxygen may have killed bunkers BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer What one Monmouth County official estimated as over a million dead bunker fish washed up on the Raritan Bay’s shores in Keyport last week. SAM SNYDER The waters near Brown’s Point Marina in Keyport were thick with the carcasses of…
