• Contract awarded for wind turbine project

    Windmill slated to be operational by January 2011 BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer Construction of a 1.5-megawatt industrial wind turbine along the coastline in Union Beach will be completed by the end of 2010, according to officials from the Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority (BRSA). “We have conditional approval from the New Jersey Department of Environmental…

  • Winter play

    Clockwise from top: Children of all ages are ready to ride down the sledding hill at Holmdel Park on a sunny winter afternoon Feb. 11. Kyle Jimenez climbs to the top of a small snow mountain at the park. Dozens of sleigh-riders are scattered around the hill the day after a major snowstorm blanketed the…

  • Hazlet 2030 offers vision for future of township

    Twp. creates long-term community redevelopment plan BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer Mixed-use development, a community bus shuttle and an expanded open space system are all part of a 20-year visioning plan for the redevelopment of Hazlet Township. Top to bottom: A Hazlet resident looks over visuals at a public meeting on the town’s 20-year redevelopment…

  • Middletown reconsiders sports complex plans

    Opposition group forms to oppose W. Front St. Park site BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer The Middletown Township Committee is revisiting plans to expand athletic fields into a sports complex at West Front Street Park. The plans are being put off after a crowd of more than 100 residents attended the Feb. 1 committee meeting…

  • KLIP (Keep Life in the Park),

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Merilee Cichy, of Little Falls, founding member of KLIP (Keep Life in the Park), is flanked by Marissa Weber (l), of Hazlet, and Angie Metler, of Vernon, as they demonstrate in front of Holmdel Town Hall on Sunday to protest a bow-and-arrow deer hunt on Bayonet Farm.

  • After storm column, some readers ask, ‘Where funny?’

    Coda • GREG BEAN I’ll say this for myself: when I make a mistake, it’s a doozy. Regular readers will remember that last week, I spent a lot of time making fun of the hysterical media build-up to the storm they were calling the “Snowpocalypse,” which turned out to be kind of a dud, at…

  • Wrong time and place for sports complex

    Middletown’s Township Committee continually ignores the historical facts and the will of the people: • Years ago, the residents defeated a Monmouth County Freeholders’ proposal to put a sports complex on the Sunnyside Farm acreage on Middletown Lincroft Road. Today it is the equestrian complex. • Just a few years ago, the proposal by Middletown…

  • Health care reform fails to treat citizens equally

    Our Declaration of Independence states in its second paragraph “ … that all men are created equal ….” Our Constitution, which is only about 12 pages long, is short because it only contained a few broad exceptions to equal treatment of its citizens. And those exceptions were corrected by amendments to the Constitution, the first…

  • Icon of environmental movement is remembered

    Environmentalists everywhere were saddened to hear that Derrickson W. (Dery) Bennett died last December. He was 79. An icon in the environmental movement, he became the first director of the American Littoral Society in 1968 and retired in 2003. Still, he came to the Littoral Society office at Sandy Hook every day in his beat-up…

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