Category: Independent News

  • Aberdeen girl’s coin collection worth a mint

    BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer PHOTOSBY MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Young coin collector Jessica Knueppel, of Aberdeen, holds up her collection of wildlife in foreign currency, a collection that recently won her an award at a convention. ABERDEEN — For a numismatist, money can buy happiness. Eleven-year-old Jessica Knueppel, of…

  • Parties dispute value of town hall proposal

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer HAZLET — With the recent movement by local Democrats to build the township’s proposed town hall on Middle Road rather than Veterans Park, a Township Committee member has come up with a set of figures that dispute the cost of the plan. “The plan they have…

  • Democrats propose new town hall site

    Claim plan would cost millions less than Vets Park BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer With the bidding process having begun more than a month ago on a new town hall to be located in Veterans Park, there was cause for optimism for many in Hazlet after the condemnation of the old…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Members of the Middletown Fire Department clear debris from a small roof during a residential fire at Knollwood Gardens on Friday.

  • Builder’s selection called into question

    Impromptu debate ensues at Mat-Ab train station BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer A Democratic candidate for 13th District Assembly has called upon the state Attorney General’s Office to investigate circumstances surrounding the Matawan-Aberdeen train station redevelopment project. Michael Dasaro, who held a press conference on the steps of the station last…

  • Ghostly visions yield life lessons in ‘Paha Sapa’

    Gladys Bensimon Holmdel author pens tale of a city girl’s stay with Sioux tribe BY MEGHAN ROBERTS Staff Writer HOLMDEL — From Brooklyn to the Black Hills of South Dakota, everyone has something to learn about being tolerant of others. “Paha Sapa: Black Hills,” a new book by writer, filmmaker and Holmdel resident Gladys Bensimon,…

  • Tale of two horses has a fortunate ending

    Animals ease into retirement on farm in the Sunshine State BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Butch and Buddy, two Belgian draft horses retired from the Monmouth County Park System, graze at their new home on Mill Creek Farm in Florida on July 13. MILLSTONE — Lisa Marie Post can finally breathe…

  • Contractor refurbishes Veterans Park barn

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer Long-neglected, the barn in Halzet’s Veterans Park has now been sided. HAZLET — One thing that has been forgotten in all of the back-and-forth surrounding the proposed town hall in Veterans Park is one of the crown jewels that sits there. For years, the red barn…

  • Matawan introduces sex offender ordinance

    Convicted residents may not live 1,000 feet from areas like schools, parks BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer MATAWAN — The borough can now be added to the increasing list of municipalities that have created pedophile-free zones. An ordinance limiting where convicted sex offenders can live was unanimously passed upon introduction at…