Category: HUB News

  • Villager asks, ‘Will you be their grandmother?’

    Charity founded by marketing guru aims to help Ugandan children BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer Into her 25th year as a consultant, Sylvia Allen had shared her marketing savvy with countless groups in the United States and abroad. But she could remember none that listened more intently than the group of…

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    Sylvia’s Children Inc. seeks to raise funds to help house and educate children from the village of Masaka, many of whom are orphans who have lost their parents to AIDS.

  • Sea Bright is looking to reroute snow plows

    BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer SEA BRIGHT — If borough officials have their way, any snow that falls this winter upon the Route 520 bridge might be pushed into Rumson by the Monmouth County public works crews that plow the span. Damage from snowplows to trees at the foot…

  • Early bird may catch a summons in Fair Haven

    Residents critical of new rules for noise control in boro BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer FAIR HAVEN — After much reworking, the fourth draft of the borough’s noise ordinance has been passed by the Borough Council. The measure continued to draw criticism from residents right up until it was passed by…

  • Rte. 66 redevelopment plans are in the works

    Developer will present plans at Dec. 8 meeting. BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer TINTON FALLS — At a special meeting on Nov. 22, the Borough Council unanimously approved an ordinance which lays out a redevelopment plan for an oddly shaped, 63-acre, landlocked tract that is wedged in between the…

  • Applying to college ‘ain’t what it used to be’

    Students now applying to a greater number of schools BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff The ever-increasing volume of high school students applying to college has made getting accepted much more of a challenge. College applicants looking to follow in the footsteps of their older brother or sister have…

  • O’Hern tapped as state’s special counsel for ethics

    Former R.B. mayor, Seton Hall prof will look at ethics rules, training BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer A Little Silver resident and former Red Bank mayor has been charged with the task of assessing the state’s ethics rules and coming up with a plan to strengthen them. Justice Daniel J. O’Hern…

  • Holiday cheer

    Miguel Juarez staff Above, Santa stops on his way to the Red Bank Town Lighting and Holiday Concert Nov. 27 to say hello to cousins Mary Sophia Morgan and Macy O’Donnell. Below, members of Holiday Express entertain the crowd of several thousand who attended the concert, sponsored by Red Bank RiverCenter.

  • Hanging out the ‘dirty laundry’ of gender violence

    BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — When Monmouth University Professor Johanna Foster decided to hang decorated T-shirts bearing messages about gender violence on a clothesline strung outside the Rebecca Stafford Student Center, she thought the display would easily fit into a small, circular band shell in…