Category: HUB News
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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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Council decides to spend $3M extra on building
Wait on construction,rise in steel prices blamed for extra cost BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Wait on construction, rise in steel prices blamed for extra cost BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer When it came to the realization of 10-year dream for a new municipal building in Tinton Falls, officials wanted it, made plans for…
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Developer seeks to void township ordinance
Township Committeeand Planning Board named in lawsuit BY JOSH DAVIDSONStaff Writer Township Committee and Planning Board named in lawsuit BY JOSH DAVIDSON Staff Writer The developer of a proposed 1.7 million-square-foot town center project has filed a lawsuit looking to void an ordinance adopted by the Middletown Township Committee for age-restricted housing. The suit, filed…
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Board president charged with drunken driving
BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer EATONTOWN — A barefoot Pamela Clarke, president of the borough Board of Education, was arrested on Route 36 near Hope Road, and charged with driving while intoxicated and refusing to take a Breathalyzer test. Clarke also was charged with reckless driving, failure to maintain lane and…
