• Mat-Ab school board considers rehiring three custodians

    These workers, whose jobs were lost to privatizing, would lose enhanced retirement benefits BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer ABERDEEN — Three Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District custodians who are losing their jobs may get lifetime retirement benefits after all. The Matawan-Aberdeen Board of Education approved a resolution to rehire three custodians just shy of lifetime retirement…

  • Homecoming celebration

    Commander Jim D’Elia speaks during a homecoming celebration for the 6th Motor Transport Battalion, based in Red Bank, at VFW Post 2179, Port Monmouth, on June 27. CHRIS KELLY

  • Bayshore Jointure finds a new home in Monmouth County

    BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer TINTON FALLS — It’s the end of an era for the Bayshore Jointure Commission — and the beginning of a new one. The jointure is packing its bags from the Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District’s office after seven years at 1 Crest Way and moving to the Monmouth-Ocean Educational Services Commission…

  • Sports club seeking to expand parking lot

    Heather Glen residents say garbage, noise persist BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer ABERDEEN — After being fined by the township’s municipal court, the management of a 2.71-acre sports complex at 17 Blair Road is proposing a new parking plan to alleviate congestion on neighboring streets. The applicants, manager Chris Gosha of Tab Ramos Sports Center…

  • BOE contracts cover benefits contribution

    Several board members fight for true-zero wage freezes BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — The Board of Education narrowly approved several contracts and salaries incorporating “net zero” salary freezes at its June 22 meeting, disappointing several board members. These “net zero” salary freezes incorporate no tangible increase in compensation for the 2010-11 school year…

  • Turbine granted final approval despite opposition

    Windmill to be erected once studies are complete, BRSA says BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer Construction of a 1.5-megawatt industrial wind turbine in Union Beach will be erected by January 2011, pending two new bird and bat impact studies, officials from the Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority (BRSA) said last week. The authority’s commission approved resolutions…

  • Mixed-use redevelopment planned for former C-Town

    Public hearing on the proposal set for Aug. 2 BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer Matawan’s downtown may soon have a new hub. A public hearing for the redevelopment plan of 126 Main St. — the vacant 28,639-square-foot C-Town Supermarket building — will take place at the borough’s Unified Planning and Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting…

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    Cpl. Richard Cummings shakes the hand of District 6 Commander Bull Grieman during a homecoming celebration for the 6th Motor Transport Battalion, based in Red Bank, at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2179, Port Monmouth, on June 27. CHRIS KELLY

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