• Local fire company to receive grant

    HOLMDEL— Rep. Rush Holt (D-12th District) announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded the Holmdel Fire Company No. 1 $20,425 in federal funding to help train and equip department personnel. The fire department successfully applied for the grant through DHS’s Assistance to Firefighters Grants program. Each year, Holt hosts a Fire…

  • Baykeeper to host book talk on nature

    KEYPORT— The NY/NJ Baykeeper will host a reading and book signing by author DavidWheeler at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 3, at the NY/NJ Baykeeper Office, 52 West Front St., Keyport. Wheeler, director of operations for the Edison Wetlands Association, recently published “Wild New Jersey: Nature Adventures in the Garden State.” In the book, he takes…

  • Need for library PR person questioned

    Does the Monmouth Board of Freeholders really need — in these dire economic times — another costly public relations office in county government, this one to promote exclusively the library commissioners and the excellent widespread library system they manage? The answers are varied, depending on whom in county government you talk to. But there was…

  • for the record 

    Jersey Shore Chinese School of Holmdel is funded by the Taiwan government and has no association with Beijing, China. Most parents are first-, second- and third-generation Taiwanese Americans.

  • Debate risks and benefits before ruling on wind turbine

    The 396-foot-high industrial wind turbine (IWT) being built by Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority in Union Beach is precedent-setting. The debate between wind industry and independent experts over whether alleged benefits outweigh the suspected risks and harms needs to be conducted before the New Jersey Senate and Assembly to be established. Currently, the preponderance of information…

  • Turbine’s arc reaches farther than most realize

    I cannot fault the Holmdel [Township Committee] for wanting to hear the BRSA side of the story on the proposed industrial wind turbine (IWT). I caution the board, however, to keep certain facts in mind. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) states that only properly licensed assessors can officially evaluate property values. Papers…

  • Holmdel BOE weighs cost-saving options in lieu of budget

    Board looks at fees for busing, after-school recreation BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer HOLMDEL— Shared services and several other cost-saving measures are being considered by the Holmdel Township Public School District in order to adhere to a state-mandated 2 percent cap on annual tax increases. Though no official plan has been set in stone, the…

  • CJ winner Spadaccini leads Matawan advancers

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Matawan High School boys track and field senior pole-vaulter Dylan Spadaccini has won every major meet he has entered in the past month. He will look to advance to the NJSIAA Meet of Champions when he competes on Saturday in the Group II state championships at the Bennett Indoor Complex in…

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