Category: HUB News
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Red Bank theater hosts benefit for Lunch Break
The Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, will host a food drive and concert featuring Joe Cocker on Feb. 7, at 8 p.m. to benefit the food pantry at Lunch Break in Red Bank. Cocker has produced hit records for more than four decades, from the 1960s to today. His duet with Jennifer Warnes, “Up Where…
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Red Bank reconsiders parking ticket fines
RiverCenter says penalties hurting downtown business BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK — The borough may take another look at fines for overdue parking meters, which are being criticized as being too high and detrimental to downtown business. Councilman John P. Curley raised the issue of the $38 tickets that…
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SEAN DWYER Isaac Barron of Fly Dance Co. demonstrates dance moves for students at the Maple Place School in Oceanport Jan. 13.
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Sen. Corzine joins effort to keep fort open
BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN — With Fort Monmouth serving as the hub of research and development for several branches of the military, and as Monmouth County’s largest employer, U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine has pledged to “fight like crazy” to spare it from any federal closure or downsizing.…
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Medieval manuscripts ‘illuminate’ the past
Private collection includes richly illustrated books dating back to 1270 BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Included in “Illumination,” an exhibit of medieval manuscripts at the Monmouth County Historical Association museum in Freehold, are pages from “The Book of Hours,” dating to 1450; the French “Treatise on Canonical Law,”…
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CHRISKELLY staff Dance program students perform “Tight as Strings” at “Dance Invitational” held at Red Bank Regional High School Jan. 15.
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Fly boys
SEAN DWYER Students at Maple Place Middle School, Oceanport, take part in a “Fly Dance” assembly, which blended street dance with concepts of classical music and modern dance Jan. 13.
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Soccer camp called off at new school gymnasium
Board approved use, but some parents oppose private use BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer LITTLE SILVER — After a meeting with parents last week, the district Board of Education has voided a contract for use of the new gymnasium at Markham Place Middle School. The board had agreed to allow a…
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Notes Around Town
Spiritual Education classes for the year 2005 will begin Sunday, Jan. 23, at Matawan Regional High School, Atlantic Avenue, Aberdeen, from 9:45 a.m. to noon. The classes are sponsored by the Baha’is of Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Classes are available to ages preschool to adults and focus on spiritual qualities, religions of the world, and…
