Category: Independent News
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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.
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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…
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Holm-less: Board may have to vacate offices
Officials want to rearrange municipal building by next year BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer HOLMDEL – Come March, the school district offices will be in need of a new home. Officials who use the board offices that currently occupy the second floor of the Holmdel municipal building have been asked to…
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Spotlight Players set for run of ‘Oliver!’
BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer MATAWAN – Charles Dickens has never sounded so good. Spotlight Players, a community theater group, will put on “Oliver!,” the musical version of the classic “Oliver Twist” at the First Presbyterian Church in Matawan opening July 15. The musical created by Lionel Bart will boast a…
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Lyme disease on the rise in Monmouth County
Female deer tick The number of confirmed cases of Lyme disease in Monmouth County has risen steadily over the past four years, according to the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. In 2002 there were 171 cases, in 2003 there were 213 cases, in 2004 there were 242 cases, and last year there…
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Democratic leader keeps enthusiasm for position
Victor Scudiery believes 2006 ticket has chance to succeed in Nov. BY DICK METZGAR Staff Writer BY DICK METZGARStaff Writer Victor Scudiery Monmouth County Democratic leaders are hoping this is the year their grassroots efforts will begin to bear fruit. Both Victor Scudiery, of Highlands, who was recently re-elected by the executive committee of Monmouth…
