Category: HUB News

  • Arts grants promote diversity

    BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer The Monmouth County Arts Council will use grant funds to help bring greater diversity to arts organizations and arts programming in the county. MCAC Executive Director Mary Eileen Fouratt said this week that the arts council will support several initiatives with the $20,000 in grant funds…

  • Rundown homes slated for demolition

    BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer RED BANK — Several blighted and abandoned homes are due for demolition in the borough due to their deteriorated state. There are currently four or five blighted homes within the borough’s Neighborhood Preservation Program district, according to Councilman R. J. Bifani Jr. He said every effort…

  • Second lewdness incident reported

    BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Second lewdness incident reported BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer RED BANK — Borough police reported that an unidentified male exposed himself to an 18-year-old female on Route 35 sometime before 6 p.m. July 22. The victim reported that while traveling south on Route 35 in Holmdel, she noticed a white Ford…

  • Artist’s life blossomed in shadow of Supreme Court

    Watercolors on exhibitat Monmouth Beach Cultural Center BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer Watercolors on exhibit at Monmouth Beach Cultural Center BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer MONMOUTH BEACH — Agnes Harvey Stone was a woman both of her time and before her time. The wife of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, she looked after…

  • Historic commission wants Union House saved

    Borough Planning Board will hearapplication July 26 BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer Borough Planning Board will hear application July 26 BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer The Olde Union House, (above) on Wharf Avenue in Red Bank, as pictured today. The 18th-century building (at right) was damaged in a fire in 1964. Architectural (below left) renderings of…

  • Marine Park to get new, accessible restrooms

    BY LAYLIWHYTEStaff Writer BY LAYLIWHYTE Staff Writer RED BANK — The borough plans to have new restroom facilities in place at Marine Park by next summer. The Borough Council recently passed a resolution authorizing a $25,000 grant agreement between the borough and the state Department of Environmental Protection with the funds earmarked for the construction…

  • Arrest made in rash of Red Bank burglaries

    BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Arrest made in rash of Red Bank burglaries BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer Last week, several Red Bank businesses reported break-ins, and many of those businesses had similar pry marks at rear entrances. On July 7 police received a report that a restaurant on Bridge Avenue was broken into by unknown…

  • Police nab assault suspect

    BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer RED BANK — The borough Police Department received a call from a residence on Leighton Avenue reporting shots being fired July 17. According to police, the accused, Michael Lane Jr., 24, South Pearl Street, was seen fleeing the scene on his bike as officers responded to…

  • RFH board has a year to find new superintendent

    Smith credited forlow turnover in district BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RFH board has a year to find new superintendent Smith credited for low turnover in district BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer Dr. Robert Smith RUMSON — After an eight-year tenure, Dr. Robert Smith is retiring from his position as Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School superintendent.…