Category: Independent News

  • Come on down

    SCOTT PILLING staff 3-year-old Amanda Adams, Hazlet, enjoys getting some airtime while riding the potato sack slide during the Holy Family Church Carnival on Friday.

  • Family copes with rare nervous system disorder

    Son organizes benefit to educate, raise funds for syndrome BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Beverly and Leslie Shapiro OCEAN TOWNSHIP – – When township resident Bruce Shapiro learned that his father had been diagnosed with a rare nervous system disease, he wasn’t sure what to expect. In 2002, after being in…

  • Handlin chosen Assembly deputy minority leader

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer Amy Handlin MIDDLETOWN – Hoping to “have a stronger voice in the Assembly,” Amy Handlin was recently appointed to the position of deputy minority leader of the New Jersey Assembly. Handlin (R-Monmouth/Middlesex), a Middletown resident who was elected to the Assembly in November 2005 and started…

  • State reaches uneasy compromise on open space

    Referendum will ask voters for about $200M in short-term funding BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Efforts to renew the Garden State Preservation Trust (GSPT) through a November ballot referendum faltered as the Legislature missed the deadline to approve the necessary resolutions last week. While some environmental groups wish to pressure the…

  • Walsh calls for better info sharing on coyotes

    Public presentation on animals to take place tonight in Middletown BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer MIDDLETOWN – In the wake of a recent rash of coyote sightings and attacks in the area, Democratic candidate for Assembly Patricia Walsh wants the state to do more to report the sightings of these animals…

  • Visual deterrent

    SCOTT PILING staff Members of the Aberdeen EMS bring a drunken driving “victim” to an emergency helicopter during a mock drunken driving simulation at Matawan Regional High School June 6. The simulation was meant to deter students from drinking and driving on prom night.

  • Don Quixote neighbors oppose day care at site

    BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer MATAWAN – Neighbors of the old Don Quixote Inn banquet hall may be dreaming the impossible dream: asking a developer to let a prime piece of real estate remain vacant. Plans to build a bank and day-care center on the Route 34 property where…

  • Exploring human nature

    Jacob Landau’s work at Monmouth University through June 22 BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer “Songs in the Night,” lithograph While not exactly a household name, Jacob Landau was a force for reason in the world. A resident of the community of Roosevelt artists, he is internationally known for his drawings, lithographs,…

  • Wall falls in Holmdel

    Incumbent committeeman loses primary to DiMaso, Allocco by seven votes BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer Incumbent committeemanloses primary to DiMaso,Allocco by seven votes BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer HOLMDEL – The fallen Wall is still standing. Despite losing the June 5 Republican primary by a margin of just seven votes, Committeeman Terence Wall said…