Category: Independent News
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Authorities seeking trio in bank robbery
BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer HOLMDEL — Police are looking for two men and their getaway driver in connection to the armed robbery of a local bank. Two suspects entered the Sun National Bank located at 626 Laurel Ave. at 8:35 a.m. on Aug. 9 with a semiautomatic handgun and left…
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It’s 1st and 10 for Hazlet football field proposal
Youth League raises funds for project, to be named after 9/11 victim BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer DAN NEWMAN Site of the current football field used by the Hazlet Youth Athletic League. Plans are in the works to construct a new field, which will hopefully be ready for the start of…
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State aid helps borough reduce tax rate increase
BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer Matawan MATAWAN — The Borough Council amended and adopted the 2005 municipal budget after receiving $200,000 in state discretionary aid. The total municipal budget adopted Aug. 2 is $8,070,244, which is offset by revenues of $3,485,187.96, leaving the tax levy at $4,585,056.05, borough Administrator Brian Valentino…
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Transit head: All three rail lines still on board
Assemblymen sought to remove Matawan and Red Bank options BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer The head of New Jersey Transit has said the agency will not take the possibility of passenger train lines from Ocean County to Matawan or Red Bank off the table. State assemblymen Michael J. Panter and Robert…
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SCOTT PILLING staff Aberdeen-Matawan train station sits along the border of both municipalities.
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Holmdel tracts may be rezoned for conservation
BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer Holmdel HOLMDEL — The Township Committee introduced a 59-page ordinance that will see roughly 500 acres of undeveloped land in southwest Holmdel rezoned for the purpose of conservation. The committee voted 3-2 at the Aug. 8 meeting in favor of introducing the ordinance. Committeewoman Serena DiMaso…
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Encephalitis mosquitoes detected in Monmouth
The Monmouth County Mosquito Extermination Commission (MCMEC) announced that evidence of the Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus has been detected in Freehold Township. Officials from the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services laboratory in Trenton notified MCMEC Aug. 10 that one mosquito sample submitted for testing returned a positive result for the EEE…
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Dorothy Parker Day to honor a reluctant Jersey girl
Landmark plaque, readings, talks celebrate Long Branch connection BY KATHY HALL Correspondent BY KATHY HALLCorrespondent Ultimate New Yorker that she was, Dorothy Parker never approved of being born in West End, but she might approve of the activities planned for Long Branch’s first annual Dorothy Parker Day on Aug. 21. Parker, whose family name was…
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Grant to MCSPCA much needed and very welcome
Shelter will use $50K capital grant to renovate facility BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Ursula Goetz, executive director of the MCSPCA, with one of the overflowing population of homeless pets housed at the shelter. EATONTOWN — The Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MCSPCA) in Eatontown has…
