Category: HUB News

  • Sea Bright council sets earlier meetings

    Council evenly split between Dems, GOP with Clark and Kelly on board BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer SEA BRIGHT — If you have something to say to the newly reorganized Borough Council when they meet on alternate Tuesday nights, plan to get there by 7 p.m. With the expectation…

  • Mayor, councilman set to face off in race

    McNamara opts for new team but sticks with same platform BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer They may have had an amicable political split but neither Tinton Falls Mayor Ann McNamara nor her challenger in the next mayoral election, Councilman Peter Maclearie, has any intention of straying one step from the dais they have sat…

  • Did you hear the one about the WOMB tournament?

    Adele Young Bloopers We like to start the new year by looking back at the typographical and grammatical errors that almost made it into one of Greater Media Newspapers’ 12 publications during the previous year. We’re grateful that these items did not make it into print, especially the ones we like to call … Things…

  • HABcore drops plan for Broad St. housing

    UMC pastor: Church viewed leasing house as part of its mission BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer HABcore Inc. has abandoned a plan to use a Broad Street residence as supported housing for people at risk of homelessness. Lawrence Carton, attorney for the nonprofit, notified the Red Bank Zoning Board last week that HABcore was withdrawing…

  • Planners to get look at fort redevelopment plan

    The Middletown Planning Board will hear a presentation on redevelopment plans for historic buildings at Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook on Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. The board extended an invitation to Sandy Hook Superintendent Richard Wells, according to Rosemary Minear, board secretary. “The consensus was that it was such a public project, the board…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Rumson-Fair Haven High School’s Paige Bissett swims the breaststroke portion of the 200-yard individual medley, which she went on to win en route to being named the meet’s Outstanding Swimmer, at the Monmouth County Championships in Toms River on Sunday.

  • Officials reappointed at reorg. meeting

    BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer SHREWSBURY — Two incumbents were re-elected during the November election but only one, William Moss, was sworn in when the Borough Council reorganized last week. William Kelleher, the other incumbent who won his re-election bid, was unable to attend the meeting and was to be sworn…

  • Historical group holds its 106th annual meeting

    The Monmouth County Historical Association will hold its 106th annual meeting and lecture at 6 p.m. Jan. 18. The meeting will take place at the Taylor-Butler House, 127 Kings Highway, Middletown. The program will be a first-person, living history presentation on New Jersey’s first governor, titled “Governor Livingston, I Presume.” Gov. William Livingston will be…

  • Changing the world, one child at a time

    Big Brothers Big Sisters matches mentors, children BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Pepito Gadson (above, left), 12, Red Bank, and Britt Reynor, Middletown, work on a craft project at the annual Big Brothers Big Sisters holiday party at The Mill in Spring Lake Heights. At right, Teaya Harper,…