Category: Independent News
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Untold stories of the ‘British Invasion’
Pete Bennett in a vintage photo with the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. For fans who weren’t around yet, or who want to revisit a definitive chapter in rock history, an insider’s look at the music scene during the heyday of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones – with a tour guide who…
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Resident arrested after armed standoff with police
MIDDLETOWN – After a three-hour standoff, which included one round of ammunition being fired, a township resident was charged with aggravated assault and possessing a weapon for an unlawful purpose. James Pepa, 60, Danemar Drive, was spotted getting into his pickup truck with a shotgun at about 6 p.m. May 1, prompting a neighbor to…
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Councilman wants more options for factory site
BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer “It just seemed that I struck a raw nerve. I haven’t seen that kind of behavior in the council before.” – Joseph Sheridan Councilman KEYPORT – Plans to build multi-family housing at an old factory site are causing a rift on the Borough Council.…
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Bills would let school districts reject bus cos.
BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer Middletown MIDDLETOWN – In response to more than one recent incident involving school bus companies, two area legislators have joined forces to unveil a bipartisan, seven-bill package aimed at making transportation safer for students. Assemblywoman Amy Handlin (R-Monmouth/ Middlesex) and Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein (D-Middlesex/Mercer) are co-sponsoring…
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First-class mail stamp price to rise to 41 cents
New postage rates go into effect on Monday, May 14, including a 2-cent increase in the price of a first-class mail stamp. Post offices nationwide are now selling the new 41-cent stamps and also 1- and 2-cent stamps for customers who still have a supply of 39-cent stamps, according to a press release from the…
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On Campus
Yelizaveta Yermakova, Middletown, a student at High Technology High School, Lincroft section of Middletown, has been awarded a National Merit Schering-Plough Foundation Scholarship from the nonprofit National Merit Scholarship Corp., Evanston, Ill. Scholars were selected from finalists in the 2007 National Merit Scholarship Program that met the criteria of the student’s scholarship sponsors, with annual…
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‘Smile!’
CHRIS KELLY staff Ian and Kaitlyn Whalen, both 8, pose for a picture with their grandparents Isabel Hill, Hazlet, and Bob Nann, Florham Park, during Grandparents/Special Friend Day at Raritan Valley School in Hazlet on May 1.
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In the Service
Army National Guard Pvt. Jorge H. Morejon Jr. has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, he studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and…
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Exhibit to show Europe from Hazlet man’s lens
Photo from Alan Leckner exhibit at Mitchell Sanborn Gallery Alan Leckner, Hazlet, will have his first exhibition of photojournalism at The Mitchell Sanborn Gallery in Keyport from May 19 to June 9. The show, consisting of 70 images culled from 4,000 photographs taken on a recent trip to Eastern Europe, tells a story of life,…
