Category: HUB News
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Turkey Bowl benefits sick kids
Charlie Eibeler, Milltown, quarterbacks for the Weichert Realtors Rumson office team during the sixth annual Turkey Bowl Touch Football Tournament held recently in Middletown. The event raised $22,000 to benefit Jason’s Dreams for Kids, Red Bank, which helps children with catastrophic illnesses, and the Zachary May Foundation, which benefits a 4-year-old Hazlet boy undergoing treatment…
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Notes Around Town
To celebrate “Home 4 The Holidays,” the Monmouth County SPCA is offering a “Two for the Price of One” adoption special until Jan. 3: Two adult cats or two mixed breed adult dogs can be adopted for the price of one. The MCSPCA has also extended its adoption hours through Jan. 3 to Saturday through…
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On strike
SUE MORGAN A group of striking JCP& L workers, members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers System Council U-3, picket outside the utility’s offices on Monmouth Road in West Long Branch on Monday afternoon. No new talks have been scheduled between management and the union, which represents about 1,350 employees, a company spokesman stated…
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Impasse on Olde Union House future continues
Architect says tavern was significant as a gathering place BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer An architect’s rendering of the proposed Union Street Village project in Red Bank designed by architect Jack Purvis. RED BANK — In the 19th century, a tavern was a gathering place, a place where everybody knew your…
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Exhibit explores use of light in art
The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts in Long Branch presents “Luminous Recurrence,” an exhibit exploring repetitive use of light in art, through Jan. 9. Curated by Linda Pelaez, the exhibition features works by artists Amy Stacey Curtis, Jin Lee, Lars Standh, Charlie Chul Hyan-Ahn, Youngmi Song, Paleaz and Allen Alejo. For details, call (732)…
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Arts Council: Nurturing the arts and artists
In its fifth year, group is creating a county arts plan BY KATHY HALL Correspondent BY KATHY HALLCorrespondent JEFF GRANIT staff Amid boxes still to be unpacked from a recent move to new quarters, Monmouth County Arts Council members (l-r) Mary Eileen Fouratt, executive director, Alice Berman, president, and Henry Green, board member, discuss council…
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In the Arts
Singer/songwriter April Smith will perform Saturday, Dec. 18, 7:30-10 p.m. at the Coffee House at the Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, 20 Third Ave., Long Branch. Smith has been nominated two years running for Best Solo Female Vocalist at the Asbury Music Awards. The “ Music of Invention” monthly series presented by The Black…
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Two more workers claim R.B. cop didn’t pay them
Internal affairs inquiry into charges under way BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer Two more Latino workers have filed complaints alleging that a Red Bank police sergeant owes them back wages for work done for his private demolition company. The complaints filed by Peter Gonzalez and Eteleberto “Tito” Mendoza, both of Long…
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MTOTSA told homes have to go
Developers say they hope to avoid eminent domain BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH — The designated co-developers of the Beachfront North phase II redevelopment zone have decided to move forward with their plan to raze the three-street neighborhood. A letter dated Dec. 3 was sent to the 36 homeowners…
