Category: Independent News

  • Several drug-related charges lodged at motel

    BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer MIDDLETOWN — A wanted woman hid behind a snowbank outside the Leonardo Motel on Friday in an attempt to elude police, later saying she was just playing in the snow, according to police. Dorothy Morgan, 44, of Keansburg, wanted by police for a $968…

  • Arts festival nurtures young artists

    Workshops teach students how to assemble portfolios BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer PHOTOSBY CHRIS KELLY staff A self-portrait by Peter Yi, 16, a student at Ocean Township High School, won first place in the Student Art Competition held at the Monmouth Reform Temple in Tinton Falls Sunday. The competition for 11th-grade…

  • Holmdel takes a ‘Sick Day’

    Commission clears NYC crew to shoot short independent film in town BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer HOLMDEL — It may not be a sound stage in Hollywood, but the public library did the trick when a New York film crew came to town to shoot scenes for an independent movie. The…

  • Hazlet gets look at town hall plans

    Officials, members of the public speak favorably on project BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer After nearly a year without an official place to call home, Hazlet Township is about to start work on a new one. Officials unveiled the design for a new municipal building at last week’s Township Committee meeting.…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff A crew works on a scene from “Sick Day” at the Holmdel Library Jan. 30. The township’s EMS building was also used for a scene.

  • Aberdeen bonds $5.8M for tracts

    Residents upset their properties are named on list BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer Aberdeen may soon conserve more open space and recreational areas through a $5.8 million bond ordinance to purchase various properties. The Township Council voted unanimously to adopt the $5,825,000 ordinance, with members stating that more open space and…

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    DAN NEWMAN Sketches were unveiled to the public at last week’s Hazlet Township Committee meeting. The plans call for a two-story, 16,000-square-foot building.

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Holmdel Film Commissioner David Kaiserman (back center) watches as a New York film crew shoots a scene for an independent movie at the Holmdel Public Library Jan. 30. See story, page 30.

  • Change is good for Bayview fifth-graders

    Class rolls up $2,150 in coins for tsunami disaster victims BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer MIDDLETOWN — When the tsunamis hit Southeast Asia in late December, Robin Martignoni’s fifth-graders were on their winter break from Bayview Elementary School. Once school resumed in the new year, she wanted to get her class…