Category: HUB News

  • 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…

  • Two Rumson churches receive state grants

    Money will fund site management plans for historic structures BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer LAYLI WHYTE Rumson’s St. George’s-by-the-River Episcopal Church (above) and the First Presbyterian Church of Rumson (below) have both received historic site management grants from the N.J. Historic Trust. RUMSON — Two historic borough churches have recently been…

  • Notes

    The Sierra Club, Jersey Shore Group, will meet on Monday, Jan. 24, at 8 p.m. in the Old Wharf House, Old Wharf Park, Main Street and Oceanport Avenue, Oceanport. The meeting will explore the question of whether commercial fishing is depleting the oceans’ resources. Will enough fish survive to produce the next generation? What effects…

  • Emotional roller coaster

    BY DANIEL MURPHY JR. This is the fourth and final installment in an account of coping with a diagnosis of and treatment for throat cancer. The surgery I had recently was a complete success and probably the most painful recovery that I can remember. Even on drip morphine I could not swallow ice or water.…

  • Kalaka-Adams: Sea Bright is the place to be

    Addressing growth, taxes, flooding to be on mayor BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer SEA BRIGHT — Over her first year as the leading official of this oceanside town, Mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka-Adams has watched local real estate market values skyrocket as more newcomers adopt Sea Bright as their home. However,…

  • Greater Women of Central N.J. winners to be honored Feb. 15

    Greater Media Newspapers is hosting its first annual Greater Women of Central New Jersey Feb. 15. For the past two months, nominations have been solicited for women working in the disciplines of business, health care and nonprofit. The nominees are women who have been able to triumph despite the challenges and make a true difference…

  • Pallone proposes tsunami warning center for Atlantic

    BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-6), ranking Democrat on the House Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans Subcommittee, has announced that he plans to introduce legislation that would establish an Atlantic tsunami warning center. The center would be similar to one that already exists for the Pacific…

  • High tea to be held in Quaker meeting house

    BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer High tea is a nice British custom, one that did not cross the Atlantic with the English. But on Feb. 6, Quakers in Shrewsbury are going to hold a “Heartfelt High Tea” as an opportunity for people to escape winter’s chill and celebrate Valentine’s Day. The…

  • Negotiation process for MTOTSA properties begins

    Appraisals under way; residents hire attorney to challenge city BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH — The negotiation process began Saturday for land acquisition of the properties in the city’s Beachfront North phase II redevelopment zone. The property owners living in the three-street MTOTSA — Marine and Ocean Terraces and…