Tag: Township Committee

HOLMDEL – DePalma Farms is expected to stay in the hands of its founding family, at least for the next five years, under a new lease conditionally awarded by the township committee.

MIDDLETOWN – Republican incumbent township committee member Tony Perry, currently the town’s mayor, will face Democratic challenger Michael Morris in the Nov. 5 general election. It would be a breakthrough for Democrats if Morris wins the one open seat on the township’s all-Republican, five-member governing body.

It was a celebration of old and new milestones as the township committee forged ahead into the new year at its annual reorganization meeting in a packed courtroom Sunday, Jan. 7.

Nearly 87 acres of the former headquarters of the global cloud communications company Vonage have been proposed for potential redevelopment.

In the final week covering municipal elections, we asked the candidates in Sea Bright and Holmdel the following question...

Amidst grumbling from some property owners, the planning board unanimously voted to accept and forward Route 36 redevelopment study to the township committee.

Hailed by some residents as the “greatest” first move, the township committee voted unanimously to authorize the appraisal of the legendary Horn Antenna property atop Crawford Hill at 791 Holmdel Road, as a first step in potentially acquiring it by eminent domain.

Monmouth County’s most populous municipality, Middletown operates under the township committee form of government, with five members elected to staggered three-year terms. At the committee’s yearly reorganization meeting, members designate a mayor and a deputy mayor from their ranks to serve for one year.

At its workshop meeting Oct. 3, the township committee unanimously approved $5 million in bond ordinances for park renovations and design costs for public improvements, including to the Middletown Arts Center.

MIDDLETOWN — A large number of residents came to the township committee meeting Monday night to protest a plan to close and possibly sell...