Category: Independent News

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Megan Camarote, 8, of Matawan, bounces around on a bungee ride at Matawan Day Sept. 18.

  • Officers interview top KBA officials

    Mayor calls meeting to discuss situation; tape subpoenaed BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer A recording of a Sept. 13 Keyport Business Alliance (KBA) meeting has been subpoenaed by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. KBA Board of Directors member Ed Burlew said he was told, while on a visit to…

  • Four years later, ‘threat is that we will forget’

    Monmouth County 9/11 Memorial unveiled on bluff overlooking NYC PHOTOSBY CHRIS KELLY staff Jim Register, Middletown, strikes a bell seven times, representing the seven tragic events of the day at the 9/11 Memorial at Mount Mitchill Scenic Overlook, Atlantic Highlands. It’s the day we swore we’d never forget. And yet, four years later, some already…

  • Protection proposed for whistle-blowers

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer HAZLET — As part of his bid for election to the Township Committee in November, Republican candidate Ric Medrow has announced that his first act as a member would be to introduce a whistle-blowers resolution. The resolution would offer township employees and residents an assurance that…

  • Smoking ban at youth events in the works

    Committeewoman calls for adoption of ordinance in the weeks ahead BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer HAZLET — For a while she just put up with it, but over Labor Day weekend Bridget Antonucci had reached her breaking point. “I was at my son’s football game on Sunday [Sept. 4], and there…

  • Boro releases minutes from job interview

    BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer KEYPORT — The minutes of new Borough Administrator Thomas Antonucci’s job interview have been made public. Antonucci, one of approximately 30 individuals who applied for the job, was interviewed by the mayor and Borough Council in closed session on July 25. According to the…

  • Night life: Bayshore cops search for DWIs

    Experience of a Saturday on patrol ranges from the unexpected to tedious BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer KAREN BOWES A hit-and-run accident involving a pedestrian is investigated by Middletown police officers late Sept. 3. MIDDLETOWN — Sometimes the road to justice is just plain dull. It’s 11:20 p.m. on…

  • Aberdeen to revive train station committee

    Mayor calls for cooperation between neighboring towns BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer ABERDEEN — Mayor David Sobel would like to see Aberdeen and Matawan back on the same track toward the train station redevelopment plan. In a letter to the Independent, Sobel said that both municipalities once shared the vision of…

  • Freeholders order cuts to employee vehicle use

    FREEHOLD — The Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders announced that certain county employees no longer will be permitted to use a county vehicle to commute to work. Only those employees who have after-hours public health and safety responsibilities will have an assigned vehicle. “In view of the current national crisis involving spiraling gasoline prices,…