Category: Independent News
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Her heart is in your hands
Honoring Women Composers concert takes place Sunday BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer MIDDLETOWN – Sometimes it’s like one hand clapping – nobody can hear it. In this case, if concert venues don’t play music created by women, nobody gets to hear it, or develop an appreciation for an alternative voice. Elaine…
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Recycling awards presented at dinner
Even though recycling rates continue to fall throughout the state and in Monmouth County, the all-volunteer Solid Waste Advisory Council recognized five organizations and individuals for their ongoing efforts to educate, innovate and offer economic solutions to support waste reduction. Awards and recognition were made at the board’s fifth annual recycling awards dinner held Feb.…
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State picks up tab for dispatch costs
Grant gives Matawan the ability to upgrade police car computers BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer The Matawan Police Department soon will see a return on an investment. Last July, the department, along with other borough public safety departments, transferred their dispatch services over to the county at a cost of over…
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In early 1970s, officials perceived need for landfill
Monmouth government constructed reclamation center at Tinton Falls BY DICK METZGAR Staff Writer BY DICK METZGARStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff The work of finding a place for garbage is never finished at the Monmouth County Reclamation Center, Tinton Falls. The 1,000-acre facility opened in late 1976 as municipal dumps began to be phased out of…
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MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Kimberly Blind, a nursing care coordinator at Bayshore Community Hospital, uses her X-rays to explain the benefits of the hospital’s new digital operating rooms. See page 3 for story.
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County begins to focus on future landfill use
A bulldozer moves tons of garbage as it is processed at the Monmouth County Reclamation Center. The Monmouth County Reclamation Center (MCRC) in Tinton Falls currently handles more than 500,000 tons of solid waste each year, according to a report prepared by Larry Zaayenga, the county’s solid waste coordinator. The county owns approximately 1,000 acres…
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Company chosen for bulkhead repairs
Bid higher than hoped, but Keyport officials happy to move ahead BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer Dragging on for over six years, the Keyport bulkhead replacement project took another baby step on the long road to construction last week. Bird Construction of Berkeley Township, Ocean County, was selected to…
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County sought incinerator as way to handle garbage
It’s likely that no issue has ever evoked more emotion, pro and con, in Monmouth County than the incinerator the county proposed to build at its Tinton Falls landfill about 15 years ago. The incinerator would have been used for the disposal of solid waste. The issue reached fever pitch during the summer of 1991…
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Bayshore operating rooms enter digital age
New equipment gives surgeons capabilities they never had before BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Kimberly Blind and Margaret Kinsella show off the new features of the digital operating rooms recently opened at Bayshore Community Hospital. HOLMDEL – The “Six Million Dollar Man” never had it so good. Patients…
