Category: Independent News

  • Six contend for three Matawan council seats

    Taxes and train station redevelopment are hot topics in campaign BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer Victoria Allen MATAWAN — Taxes, redevelopment, and infrastructure are the talk of the town this election season. Six candidates are seeking three seats on the Borough Council. Republican incumbents Sharon Roselli and Robert Kee will face…

  • Spalliero indicted in Marlboro bribe case

    Feds claim developer provided cash, trips & entertainment to officials BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer Monmouth County developer Anthony Spalliero was indicted be a federal grand jury last week and charged with bribing municipal officials with cash, liquor and vacations to win development approvals and zoning changes in Marlboro. The indictment…

  • Candidates suggest changes to FACE project

    Scramble to raise funds, get messages out with short time left in race BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer In the wake of the failed Fair and Clean Election (FACE) Pilot Program, candidates are now scrambling to make up for lost time. One candidate says she has a remedy to…

  • In the year 2020 …

    Borough resident drafts proposal for the future of Keyport BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer KEYPORT — Hindsight is always 20/20. For Keyport, so is the future. “Keyport 2020: A Sustainable Community Initiative (SCI),” which outlines the future of the borough by the year 2020, was presented to the Environmental…

  • Flooding in Middletown causes road to disappear

    BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer MIDDLETOWN — Flooding in Navesink caused a road to disappear last week. According to Mayor Thomas Hall, Grand Tour Road, between Hartshorne Woods and the Navesink River, was completely “washed out.” “It’s gone,” said Hall on Friday. A week’s worth of teeming rains has…

  • Parents call on board to lift suspensions

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer HAZLET — Following a refusal by the Board of Education to reinstate two students on the Raritan High School football team accused of carrying marijuana this past summer, their parents stated that they plan to sue a variety of groups, including the board itself. The boys,…

  • Council to discusss future of police station

    BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer MATAWAN — The Borough Council recently took a step forward in fixing up the police station. At a council meeting last month, the governing body agreed to put together a request for proposals (RFP) to conduct a needs assessed and programming study on the police department.…

  • On the move

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Friends Stephen Freer-Balko (l-r), William Zivney, and Tsulufelo Scrivens, pound the pavement during the New School of Monmouth County’s annual eight-mile charity walk on the Henry Hudson Trail on Oct. 10.

  • Aim high

    CHRIS KELLY staff Zach Brown, 11, of Middletown, checks out one of the military weapons on hand during World War II Day, Oct. 15, at Heath Park in Middletown, presented by the 102nd Calvary Squadron WWII Re-enactment Unit and Boy Scout Troop 122.