Category: HUB News

  • Work at regional rec sites expected to be approved

    FREEHOLD — In the very near future, the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders will formally approve the allocation of funding for 2004 derived from the open space tax. The board met recently with Faith S. Hahn, the supervising planner for the Monmouth County Park System, to review the six projects under consideration for funding this…

  • Community Foundation facilitates, advises on giving

    CFMC managesinvestments,paper workassociated with giving BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer CFMC manages investments,paper work associated with giving BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer Local philanthropists have been able to channel $2 million into charitable causes — more than a half-million dollars of those funds into programs that benefit the local community — through a nonprofit foundation formed…

  • Police arrest one of three suspected graffiti artists

    Tagger sprayed name on various buildings inborough BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer Police arrest one of three suspected graffiti artists Tagger sprayed name on various buildings in borough’s downtown BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Grafitti in Red Bank, behind the old Bon Ton building. His identity no longer an "enigma," a Tinton Falls…

  • Businessman: Immigrants a fact of life in work force

    Businessman: Immigrants a fact of life in work force JEFF GRANIT staff Daniel Armenta and Isidro Victoria Martinez stand in line to check in at the hiring hall at the Second Baptist Church, Freehold Borough. Partnership director says people will not be deported from U.S. BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Representatives of…

  • Arts Council taking long-term perspective

    BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer The Monmouth County Arts Council has taken one small step for the future of arts in the county by establishing the Monmouth County Arts Council Endowment Fund for the Arts. "Creating an endowment fund says to the community, especially to members of the Monmouth County Arts…

  • Agency pairs Bigs and Littles for a winning match

    BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Roseanne and Sam Wike of Long Branch have found rewards beyond what they expected when they joined the Big Brothers Big Sisters program as mentors for Joseph Jenkins of Neptune. BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Sam and Roseanne Wike got more than they bargained for. The Long Branch couple signed up with Big…

  • Freeholders adopt policy banning hiring of relatives

    FREEHOLD — The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders has adopted a new policy aimed at banning the hiring of relatives by freeholders and county department heads. According to a press release, the policy prohibits the hiring of relatives for unclassified positions in county government. Most hiring in county government is done through the New Jersey…

  • VNA wins approval for massive addition

    Planners OK variances An artist’s conception of the new VNA building that has been approved at 141 Bodman Place. for parking, setbacks on Riverside Ave. Bodman Pl. BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer The headquarters of the Visiting Nurse Association of Central New Jersey in Red Bank will be reconfigured in a project approved Monday by…

  • New leader for city’s Ronald McDonald House

    Oceanport residentformerly worked atnonprofit in Denver BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Oceanport resident formerly worked at nonprofit in Denver BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Corinne LeBaron, executive director of Ronald McDonald House of Long Branch. It took a few months, but Corinne LeBaron found what she was looking for. LeBaron, an Oceanport resident who was born…