Category: Independent News

  • It’s time to throw out the holiday leftovers

    Lori Clinch Are We There Yet? Cleaning comes in at 93 on a scale of 1-100 of my favorite things to do. Right in between flogging mice and hanging Sheetrock. Therefore, I like to start off my spring cleaning much the same way each year — by putting it off to the fall. I have…

  • Hazlet committee bonds $5.5M for new town hall

    16,000-square-foot building planned on Union Avenue BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer HAZLET — Following the condemnation of the former town hall last April, the Township Committee has adopted a $5.5 million bond ordinance for the construction of a new facility. “We plan on going out to bid on the project at…

  • Grand master

    PHOTOS BY MIGUEL JUAREZ staff State champion Tom Bartell, Colts Neck, sets the last moves to checkmate an opponent at the NY/NJ Baykepper chess tournament Saturday. On left is Doug Taublib, Tinton Falls. Ben Strauss, 9, and James Wu, 10, both Yardley, Pa., take their next moves seriously.

  • Photo

    This 2004 photo shows the emergency demolition of the Keyport bulkhead.

  • On Campus

    Colleen Marie Dobson, Middletown, was recently named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the University of Delaware, Newark, where she is majoring in psychology. A graduate of Mater Dei High School, New Monmouth section of Middletown, she is the daughter of Judy and Robert Dobson. Middletown resident David B. Heefner has been…

  • Sachs replaces Coughlin as Hazlet’s mayor

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer HAZLET — Following the resignation of Paul Coughlin from his position as mayor, Deputy Mayor Michael Sachs has been appointed to take his spot, effective immediately. Sachs takes over for Coughlin, who was arrested last month on extortion charges following an FBI sting. Although the charges…

  • Best friends separated by fatal auto accident

    BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer A 71-year-old Matawan woman was fatally injured after the 2001 Dodge Stratus in which she was riding was struck on the passenger side at the intersection of routes 32 and 535 in South Brunswick last week. SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Tragedy struck a pair of friends on…

  • Twp. attorney ordered to draft smoking ban

    BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer HOLMDEL — After weeks of discussion, the Township Committee has moved one step further in its quest to put out cigarettes in all bars, restaurants and workplaces within Holmdel. After reviewing a Livingston Township ordinance banning smoking, the committee voted 4-0 on March 14 to order…

  • All ears

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Carmina Underhillo, 3, was happily surprised to see the Easter Bunny on a walk down West Front Street, Keyport, Saturday.