Category: Independent News

  • Eye Sights 2006: Celebrating the diversity of vision

    First place, “Morning Serenity” by Carolyn Soltys, Aberdeen The diversity of individual creative vision is the focus of the 162-piece photography collection currently on exhibit at the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury. “Eye Sights 2006,” the guild’s third annual All-Members Juried Photography Show and Exhibit, will run through March 1. The competition was judged…

  • On Campus

    Students from Indian Hill School, Holmdel, recently took part in the “Knowledge Master’s Open” academic competition for students nationwide and overseas. The fifth-grade team received an honorable mention, and sixth-grade team earned first place in New Jersey, and 20th overall. Fifth-grade members are Sammy Guenzburger, Jason Liao, Jack Baisley, E.J. Carannante, Kristen Watkins, Kevin Closs,…

  • County: Torch set off mansion blaze

    Loss of historic site expected to be covered by insurance BY FRAIDY REISS Correspondent BY FRAIDY REISSCorrespondent Above, Monmouth County Park System Public Information Officer Laura Kirkpatrick (l) explains how the fire started to Freeholder Lillian Burry after last week’s press conference. At right, the over 100-year-old Geraldine Thompson mansion stands in ruins. Subcontractors using…

  • Rufus egged on to Best in Show

    Holmdel dog BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer Rufus, a colored bull terrier and a Holmdel resident, is the K-9 of the hour after winning Best in Show at the Westminster Dog Show on Feb. 14. Every dog has its day, and Valentine’s Day was Rufus’.The Holmdel native won Best in Show…

  • Hazlet referendum vote could reach $50M

    Full-day kindergarten, facility upgrades would be part of long-term plan BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer HAZLET — The issue of whether or not to have a full-day kindergarten program in the township’s schools has been a matter of debate for a long time now. Soon the debating will stop, and the…

  • In show of unity, local Dems announce runs

    Lavan, Belasco to seek Hazlet committee seats; Inzerillo for freeholder BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer MIDDLETOWN — Even with primaries over three months away, local Democrats are not wasting time in announcing their political intentions. On Thursday, current Hazlet Township Committeeman Kevin Lavan said he will run again. Lavan won a…

  • HYAL fundraising effort at about midfield

    Group still seeks support for new youth football field BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer HAZLET — For some time now, the Hazlet Youth Athletic League (HYAL) has been hard at work trying to raise funds so that it can build a field devoted to football for community youths to play on.…

  • Search for missing woman continues

    BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer Christine Edwards ABERDEEN — The search continues for a Red Bank woman who went missing on Feb. 10 from the Aberdeen home of her sister. Christine Caroline Edwards, 55, inexplicably left the house of her sister and brother-in-law between 6:30 and 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb.…

  • World on a string

    Above, Greg Dillow, of Union Beach, browses through the guitars at the ninth annual Brookdale Guitar Show on Sunday. At left, Jack Frost conducts a clinic on “Metal Shredding.” Below, Don Wood fiddles with a Guild acoustic guitar. PHOTOBY CHRISKELLY staff PHOTOBY CHRISKELLY staff