Category: Independent News

  • Dec. 10 concert to feature holiday songs, local soprano

    Jo Ellen Miller HOLMDEL – The third annual benefit concert of the Chamber Music Players of the New Jersey State Youth Orchestra (NJSYO) will take place Dec. 10 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Holmdel. The concert will benefit Little Lambs School, which is housed in Good Shepherd Church. In keeping with the season, this year’s…

  • On the run

    DAN NEWMAN Second-grader Kevin HIggins, 7, sprints to the finish line during the Middletown Village Elementary School annual “Turkey Trot for the Kids” races last week.

  • New rail cars accommodate more riders, and comfortably

    Multilevel commuter train cars to be in operation mid-Dec BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer PHOTOSCOURTESY OF NJ TRANSIT Mayor John McCormac of Woodbridge speaks at the dedication ceremony of nine of more than 200 new multilevel rail cars NJ Transit will add to the fleet by 2008. The commute to New…

  • In the Service

    Dwayne M. Butler has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. A speechwriter to the Army Chief of Staff, he is assigned to Headquarters Department of the Army at the Pentagon, Arlington, Va. A 1986 graduate of Middletown High School North, Butler received his master’s degree in 1993 from Central…

  • Middletown OEM official named coordinator of year

    MIDDLETOWN – Township Emergency Management Coordinator Charles W. Rogers III has been named the 2006 Emergency Management Coordinator of the Year by the New Jersey Emergency Management Association. The Middletown Township Committee recognized Rogers for receipt of the award at the Nov. 20 Township Committee meeting. “Middletown is honored to have such a dedicated and…

  • Holy Toledo, Batman … it’s ‘American Comic’s Creators’

    Exhibit at SICA celebrates comics as an American art form Marvel Comics’ “Thor” by Jack Kirby An exhibit celebrating the artistic contributions of the creators of comic books and comic strips opens Friday at the Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts in Long Branch. “American Comic’s Creators” will run through Dec. 23 at SICA, 20…

  • The race is on

    Clockwise from top: Krista Wiegs, Kaitlyn Gwiacdlwski and Shannon Teehan cross the finish line in the girls’ first-grade race during the annual Fairview Elementary School turkey trot last week in Middletown. Jenna Reid wins the girls’ second-grade race. Jennifer Cimmino and daughter Abigail, 4, welcome Fairview students. PHOTOS BY MIGUEL JUAREZ staff

  • County donates $25,000 to state WWII memorial

    FREEHOLD – Recognizing the sacrifices made by World War II veterans, particularly those who lost their lives to preserve freedom, the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders has donated $25,000 toward the fundraising effort to build a memorial in New Jersey. “We have a Vietnam Veterans Memorial and a Korean War Memorial, but New Jersey still…

  • Mat-Ab troubled by bus aide’s arrest

    Man accused of giving Middletown teen drug also served district BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer The school bus aide who allegedly supplied a vial of methadone to a 15-year-old Middletown student last month also rode the bus with special needs students from the Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District. The incident,…