Category: HUB News
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It’s official: municipal budget for 2004 adopted
Borough property owners will see tax rate for town rise to 59.9 cents SHREWSBURY — The Borough Council adopted the 2004 municipal budget of $6.6 million and then fine tuned it with the adoption of an amendment adjusting the line items for insurance The council, at its May 17 meeting, doubled the amount in the…
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Sunshine brings extra green for city couple
Solar electricity system provides financial and environmental savings BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Marcia and Tom Blackwell are the first on their block, and in the city of Long Branch, to have solar panels installed on their house as a source of electricity. BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Tom and Marcia Blackwell aren’t just having fun in the…
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Advantages of solar electric systems
Advantages of solar electric systems Converting to a solar electric system can: Converting to a solar electric system can: • reduce electric bills because you no longer need to purchase as much power from your electric utility company; • further reduce bills through net metering, which credits you for any surplus solar electricity you produce…
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Tuesday’s Children focuses on the other victims of 9/11
Group offers servicesto families who BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Group offers services to families who lost loved ones BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer RED BANK — Over the past three years, families all over the tristate area have been trying to reorganize their lives to cope with the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. Many families lost loved…
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Zest
Adoptees seek access law to provide a BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer Zest Adoptees seek access law to provide a ‘sense of self’ BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer Thomas McGee of Ocean Township is a proponent of legislation that would give adopted children access to their original birth certificates. For decades,…
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Lease proponents get personal in ad
Advocates for leasingFort buildings compare BY Gloria StravelliStaff Writer Advocates for leasing Fort buildings compare ‘old friend’ to Nazi BY Gloria Stravelli Staff Writer They meant it when they wrote it, but one member of a group that publicly attacked opponents of a redevelopment project on Sandy Hook now says she’s sorry. "I do regret…
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Miguel Juarez staff Janelle Aimee Azzaro, Alicia de los Reyes and Lisa Marie Dorstek join classmates in tossing their mortar boards in the air at the conclusion of the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School graduation last Friday.
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Visit to garden shop leads to arrest, jail
Visit to garden shop leads to arrest, jail Police were called after 2 men tried to buy fertilizer BY ANNIKA MENGISEN Correspondent Alberto Sanchez-Lopez, 32, was sitting in the Monmouth County jail, Freehold Township, this week waiting for a court appearance and not fully understanding the nature of the crime he is alleged to have…
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Basie building future orchestra at Cool School
List of jazz luminaries slated as instructorsfor summer program List of jazz luminaries slated as instructors for summer program It’s a program William "Count" Basie surely would approve of. Young musicians will get the opportunity to study with professional jazz musicians during an intensive summer music program being offered at Red Bank’s Count Basie Theatre.…
