Category: Independent News

  • Enter the dragon

    Holmdel author BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer The book’s cover. HOLMDEL — It is safe to say that fantasy fiction owns the youth media market right now. With the booming success of the “Harry Potter” series and the renewed success of “The Lord of the Rings,” one Holmdel native is trying…

  • The VNA’s voice of hope for over 50 years

    Middletown woman has fielded some 118,800 calls for agency since 1955 BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer Central Jersey Visiting Nurse Association President & CEO Mary Ann Christopher (l-r), Doris Septen, board Chairman Judith Stanley Coleman and another colleague celebrate Septen’s 50 years on the job. It’s sometimes difficult to…

  • Holmdel woman fights to finish line for charity

    Raises over $27K for medical research in NYC Marathon run BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Holmdel’s Florence McCarthy, with Aidan, 5, and Alexandra, 4, who recently completed the New York City Marathon and raised over $27,000 for neurofibromatosis in the process. HOLMDEL — For anybody who has ever…

  • Boro woman tells all about Jewish weddings

    Lea Bayers Rapp uses experience, research in newly republished guide BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer Lea Bayers Rapp SAYREVILLE — When it comes to Jewish weddings, Lea Bayers Rapp wrote the book. Rapp, 59, a full-time writer who has lived in Sayreville since 1972, was working on bridal articles for magazines…

  • Berk seeks recount of Holmdel ballots

    With provisionals tallied, incumbent is 26 votes behind BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer Holmdel Deputy Mayor Janet Berk will ask for a recount of the Nov. 8 election results, based on the slim margin that remained after last week’s count of provisional ballots. The provisional ballots put Berk, the Democratic incumbent,…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Middletown’s James Miller, 8, sprints to the finish line during Fairview Elementary School’s annual Turkey Trot on Friday.

  • KBA scraps vote change proposals

    Group considered ceasing annual election on budget BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer Attention, Keyport business owners: There will be no vote to change how you vote. The Keyport Business Alliance (KBA) held a special meeting Nov. 14 to answer questions about an upcoming board of directors’ vote on bylaw…

  • A major league chance for business networking

    Expo has grown into a huge event for vendors that sell to public sector BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer Above left: Former N.J. governors James Florio (1990-1994) and Brendan Byrne (1974-1982) after speaking at a seminar, “Governors Weigh in on Governor in Waiting,” at the 90th annual Conference of the N.J.…

  • ‘Nostra Aetate’ discussed as way to link faiths

    40 years ago, papal document denounced persecution of Jews BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Dan Napolitano, an educator from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., talks about the “Nostra Aetate,” a Catholic doctrine, during a lecture at St. Leo the Great Roman Catholic Church,…