Category: Independent News

  • Something old, something new: Dorn’s vintage images open new gallery

    “Serenity Sisters,” Hoyt Photo, Tinton Falls, date unknown. A new gallery at the Monmouth Museum is the setting for an exhibit that affords a glimpse at a trove of vintage images that preserve a record of life in Monmouth County over the past century. “Dorn’s Collection of Vintage Images” is the inaugural exhibition in the…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff An Uncle Sam stiltwalker marches with local Boy Scouts during the Keyport Memorial Day Parade, held Sunday.

  • Plan suggests new look for Route 36

    Artistic landmarks may be placed at entrances to towns BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer A plan to remake Route 36 into a charming “gateway to the Bayshore” is making steady progress. Called the Bayshore Regional Strategic Plan, the long name hides a simple goal: make the highway a pretty…

  • Coughlin admits to taking bribe

    Questions raised over what ex-Hazlet mayor did with money BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer Paul Coughlin On a day when his trial on corruption charges was to begin, former Hazlet Mayor Paul Coughlin instead pleaded guilty Tuesday to taking a $3,000 bribe from a law enforcement official who was posing as…

  • Man charged with auto theft, home burglaries

    BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer MIDDLETOWN – Officers arrested a Keansburg man May 23 suspected of burglarizing houses in Holmdel and Hazlet and stealing a car from Best Buy in Holmdel, according to Holmdel Detective Louis Torres. James P. Quinn, 44, was seen driving a 1998 Dodge Neon that had been…

  • Bridge fight taken before freeholders

    Middletown resident says some county officials have conflicts of interest BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer KAREN BOWES Democratic candidate for Middletown Township Committee Pat Short spoke about eminent domain at the May 24 Freeholders meeting. MANALAPAN – I’m not the only one. On May 24, a Middletown woman expressed…

  • Trading cards, brochures show kids’ Keyport pride

    BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer KAREN BOWES Students at the Keyport Central School look over trading cards depicting local community leaders, May 19, in the school’s technology room. KEYPORT – Have you ever dreamed of owning a Councilman George Walling trading card? Well, dream no more. Students at the…

  • New bridge deemed safer, better looking

    BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer Holmdel Mayor Serena DiMaso (third from right) and Committeeman Larry Fink (third from left) join Freeholder Director Bill Barham (second from right) and county employees to dedicate the Middle Road bridge that spans Waackaack Creek HOLMDEL – County and township officials met on the span straddling…

  • Resident wakes up and battles home invader

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer MIDDLETOWN – Two days after allegedly breaking into a township home and scuffling with the homeowner, an Atlantic Highlands man was arrested. Michael McCullough, 23, was charged with robbery and burglary following the May 17 early-morning incident at a home on Florence Avenue, according to Detective…