Category: Independent News

  • Family sues drug co. for child’s death

    Claims ibuprofen caused fatal side effects for 3-year-old BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer FILE PHOTO Darlene Kiss (l) stands with Michael’s Feat founder Dana Puharic at the annual Michael’s Feat Country Jamboree last summer. Kiss is holding a picture of her daughter, Heather Rose, who passed away at the age of…

  • Honduran orphan embraced by Circle of friendship

    Group of Arc members support Honduran girl with Down syndrome BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Members of The Arc of Monmouth County’s Circle of Friends Club visit Ana, a Down syndrome child, in Honduras. They include (l-r) Diane, holding Ana; Patty, third from left in back and Joan, second from right.…

  • Photo

    CHRIS KELLY staff A little girl tries to pet a tortoise during an animal show by Frenchtown’s Travis Gale at Poricy Park in Middletown on Sunday.

  • Committee sets local meetings

    MIDDLETOWN — The Township Committee will hold a set of four regional neighborhood meetings in March to provide residents and local officials with an opportunity to chat informally about township happenings and neighborhood issues, announced Mayor Thomas G. Hall. Four informal meetings are scheduled to cover each of the township’s quadrants. The 2005 Regional Neighborhood…

  • On Campus

    Cadet Conor J. Browne, Middletown, was recently named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., where he is concentrating his studies in theoretical economics and anticipates being commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army following graduation. A 2002 graduate of Middletown High School North, he…

  • On bass

    CHRIS KELLY staff Philadelphia’s Sammie Stinson checks out a bass guitar while attending the eighth annual Brookdale Guitar Show at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, on Sunday.

  • On Campus

    Jerry Joseph Aversano, of Middletown, recently received his master’s of business administration degree in finance and strategic management at the winter commencement exercises at Rutgers Business School, Newark. He received his bachelor of science degree with a double major of management and marketing at Fairfield (Conn.) University. A graduate of Mater Dei High School, New…

  • Dance school organizes tsunami benefit show

    BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer HOLMDEL — Roughly 60 dancers and performers of different ethnic backgrounds will dance to raise money for the Tsunami victims on Saturday. “This is going to be a multicultural dance extravaganza,” Meena Basu Nag, the organizer of the benefit said. Nag is the director of the…

  • Boro fills administrator position with interim

    BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer MATAWAN — After roughly eight months without a borough administrator, the Borough Council appointed a part-time interim to the position. The board voted 4-0 on Feb. 15 to appoint Brian J. Valentino to the position for the next six months. Councilwomen Sharon Roselli and Debbie Buragina…