Category: HUB News
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Springsteen delivers on promise to artist
Musician playsguitar, shares timewith Red Bank teen BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer Musician plays guitar, shares time with Red Bank teen BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Michael Antrim, 17, enjoys a jam session with Bruce Springsteen on June 29. Springsteen paid a visit to Michael’s Red Bank home to sign a portrait of himself…
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Discovery of marijuana plants leads to arrest
TINTON FALLS — While responding to a reported altercation, police said they found what they believe to be 59 marijuana plants amid weeds outside a borough home. According to a police report, on July 1, police were dispatched to a residence on Newman Springs Road, where they met a woman who reported that her car…
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Zest
A new home for contemporary arts and artists BY GLORIASTRAVELLIStaff Writer Zest A new home for contemporary arts and artists BY GLORIASTRAVELLI Staff Writer BY GLORIASTRAVELLI Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts opened last week in a factory building and includes gallery space for exhibits, artists’ studios, a video…
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Jones quits FH council early
Says she felt left out BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer of decision making BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer FAIR HAVEN — Monday’s meeting of the Borough Council was canceled due to the lack of a quorum. The council needs at least four people, including the mayor, in order to hold a meeting. There were not four…
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New council president, deputy president sworn in
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer TINTON FALLS — With one more year left before his current term on the Borough Council expires, Jerome Donlon has taken the reins as council president for the first time. At the council’s reorganization July 6, Donlon — who was elected to council in…
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Governor signs new DWI legislation
BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer Governor signs new DWI legislation BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer TRENTON — A new state law aims to crack down on repeat drunken drivers. A bill co-sponsored by Assemblymen Upendra Chivikula (D-Somerset) and Peter J. Barnes Jr. (D-Middlesex) to prevent repeat drunken-driving offenders from getting off with lesser punishments was signed…
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Rumson looking at upgrades to boro hall
BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Rumson looking at upgrades to boro hall BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer RUMSON — At the Borough Council meeting on July 1, an ordinance was introduced to allocate $9,500 to hire an architect to plan for additions and renovations to borough hall. The borough is looking to hire Robert Gorski of…
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Fire strikes motel, displaces 11 families
BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer EATONTOWN — An early morning fire that severely damaged the Sands Motor Lodge on Route 35 and displaced 11 families was deliberately set, according to a county fire investigator. Patsy Townsend, deputy Monmouth County fire marshal, said Tuesday that Robert Whelen, 44, who was staying in…
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Surprise signing of 60-year fort lease irks Pallone
NPS lease with developerjust another extension,critics charge BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer NPS lease with developer just another extension, critics charge BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer Critics are charging that the lease signed last week by the National Park Service (NPS) and Sandy Hook Partners, LLC amounts to yet another extension for the developer — one…
