Category: Independent News

  • 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,…

  • County library to host archives event Saturday

    MANALAPAN — Historians, archivists, genealogists and others with similar interests will soon gather at the 10th annual Archives and History Day, supported by the Monmouth County Clerk and a grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, and in recognition of Archives Week, which is being celebrated throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region. The event is scheduled for…

  • Rainy roast

    CHRIS KELLY staff Despite the rainy weather, Bob Fanning, Keyport, places cheese on the last burger of the day during the annual pig roast held by the Caesarea Lodge, Number 64, Keyport, on Oct. 8.

  • Eatontown Roller Rink closes after 32 years

    Future plans for Rte. 35 property uncertain BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Geraldine “Jake” McCarthy of Shrewsbury captures the memories of her twin daughters, Adeline and Belle, both 3, trying out their wheels. The good times at the Eatontown Roller Rink have rolled to an end.After thriving during…

  • Landfill redevelopment worries some residents

    Council expected to vote on Aeromarine plan at hearing next week BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer KEYPORT — Moving the dump is a bunch of garbage, according to neighbors of the Aeromarine site. On Oct. 4, residents who live near the former Aeromarine Plane & Motor Co. voiced concerns…

  • County, Spalliero vie for farm rights

    Aberdeen site willed to county, but sold in later contract BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer Eugene Fariello had a farm, and on this farm he had a … county park or townhouse development? This is the question that is stumping the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders and controversial Monmouth County…

  • Committee backsrehabilitation of apartment complex

    MIDDLETOWN — The Township Committee passed a resolution last week in support of local efforts to rehabilitate Bayshore Village, an affordable apartment complex for seniors, using grant funds from the federal Home Investment Partnership Program (HOME). The Middletown Township Senior Housing Corporation, the nonprofit group that operates the 31-year-old complex, has applied for a $450,000…

  • Photo

    CHRIS KELLY staff Nelinelao and Neshani Biegen, 2 and 6, respectively, of Keyport, enjoy a ride at the Ultrasonic Super Fantastic Kids Day at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel on a soggy Sunday.