Category: Independent News
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Cheer team headed to Disney
KAREN E. BOWES The Keyport Pop Warner cheerleaders hold up a sign reading “Keyport Indians: Simply the Best,” a gift from the mayor and councilmen for qualifying to compete in a national competition in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. KEYPORT – Cheerful young girls packed borough hall last week, showing off their trophies and…
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SCOTT PILLING staff Watoto, a children’s choir from Uganda, Africa, performs at St. John’s United Methodist Church in Hazlet on Nov. 22. The children, who danced and sang in traditional Uganda style, have all lost one or both parents to AIDS or war.
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16 graduate from fire academy
MIDDLETOWN – Sixteen local residents graduated from the Middletown Fire Academy Nov. 18, and are now expected to provide firefighting services in five area municipalities, including the township. The initial training to become a firefighter requires about 150 hours over a four-month period. Since 1974, the Firefighter 1 course has been given at the academy,…
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Residents propose ideas to ease Rt. 520 traffic
BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer FILE PHOTO Residents of the Lincroft section of Middletown shared several ideas with the Township Committee for relieving traffic on Route 520 (above). One plan was to create a new exit from Route 18 to Laird Road in Colts Neck, which leads to Phalanx Road and…
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SCOTT PILLING staff Holmdel’s Guilhurme Borges shows some emotion after the final whistle ended the Hornets’ North II Group III championship soccer win over Voorhees in Holmdel. For story, see sports.
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Here comes Santa Claus right down W. Front St.
Tree-lighting ceremony, Santa’s Workshop event in Keyport Saturday BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer Keyport businessman Ed Burlew (l) supervises while Ray Casanova (center) and Bruce Craig (r) place the borough Christmas tree at the mini park on West Front Street Thursday. This year’s tree was donated by Dick Currier,…
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Judge sides with township in town center lawsuit
Rules committee’s decision to rezone tract was proper BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer “This was a long-awaited decision and one which issupported by the majority ofresidents in Middletown.” – Thomas Hall Mayor MIDDLETOWN – In the latest – and officials hope final – chapter of Mountain Hill LLC’s bid to build…
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Hazlet woman faces life for New Year’s murder
BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer Angela Pizzarelli FREEHOLD – A Hazlet woman and two men from Jersey City have been indicted in the murder of an Asbury Park man on New Year’s Eve. Angela Pizzarelli, 25, of the West Keansburg section of Hazlet, Antoine Dennis, 26, and his brother Andre, 21,…
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Grand jury indicts four in Keyport bar robbery
BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer FREEHOLD – Four people have been indicted in connection with the 2005 robbery and assault of a 32-year-old borough man. On Nov. 15, Dominick Gallucci, 45, of Somerset, and his brother, Mark Gallucci, 42, of South Amboy, were each charged by a grand jury…
