Category: Independent News

  • Greetings from the Jersey Shore Postcard Club

    Group collects ‘little pieces of history’ that come with a stamp BY DANIELLE MEDINA Correspondent BY DANIELLE MEDINACorrespondent PHOTOSBY CHRIS KELLY staff Above, Bob Randolph (l), of Wall Township, and Joe Torrence, of Middletown, flip through postcards for sale at the Jersey Shore Postcard Club’s monthly meeting at Brick Civic Plaza July 11. At left,…

  • A watershed moment

    Aussie shatters 81-year record for NYC-Sandy Hook swim BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer SCOTT PILLING staff Tammy van Wisse is greeted by members of the Middletown Swim and Tennis Club after arriving in Sandy Hook following her 22-mile swim from Battery Park. Summertime traffic on a Friday? Tammy van Wisse just…

  • Gov. says goodnight to bed tax

    BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer “I think it had become clear to [Gov. Corzine] that there simply were not enough votes to pass it.” Amy Handlin assemblywoman HOLMDEL – The sick can sleep tight. Gov. Jon Corzine’s proposal to tax hospital beds was thrown out at the last minute…

  • The garden of eating

    Students work to protect vegetable-growing area from deer, groundhogs BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer Vegetable garden planted by Lisa Rosado’s fourth-grade class at Lincroft Elementary School. The garden initially was infiltrated by groundhogs, and eventually deer started hopping over the fence. MIDDLETOWN – In 1997, Lisa Rosado sought to show her…

  • Legislation would ban protests near funerals

    Bill prompted by Kansas group’s demonstrations at slain soldiers’ services BY JESSICA SMITH Correspondent BY JESSICA SMITHCorrespondent “I think there was some feeling that it might happen [in New Jersey], and we wanted to pre-empt that.” – Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein (D-Middlesex/Mercer) A bill banning protests near funerals was unanimously approved by the state Senate and…

  • Four juveniles accused of causing damages to schools

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer MIDDLETOWN – Four youths were arrested Sunday evening for their alleged roles in two break-ins at township schools. At about 9:40 p.m., policed responded to a burglary in progress at Harmony Elementary School on Murphy Road. Witnesses at the scene told the officers they heard a…

  • Freeholders urged to deny Marpal expansion

    BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer FREEHOLD – A local garbage transfer station has already ruined the neighborhood, according to residents, and now they want to make it worse. About 40 people, mainly from Tinton Falls and the Lincroft section of Middletown, attended the Monmouth County Freeholders meeting Thursday night,…

  • Sea monsters

    CHRIS KELLY staff Aberdeen’s Andrew Sliwowski, 8, paints an original sea creature while attending the Adventure in Art by Gina Torello, at the Monmouth County Park System’s Thompson Park Craft Center on Monday.

  • Scenes from a commuter’s imagination

    Pen-and-ink works of Robert E. Moore on display at library “Pier” BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN – The commute into New York City is an art form in itself, a stressful, onerous art form. Traffic, pavement and toll tokens are the commuters’ art supplies; highways, bridges and tunnels, their inspiration. But for one Middlesex…