Category: HUB News

  • Clean Cars Act may see vote before year is out

    Bill would bring tighter vehicle emissionsstandards by 2006 BY ALISON GRANITOStaff Writer Bill would bring tighter vehicle emissions standards by 2006 BY ALISON GRANITO Staff Writer New Jersey has more cars per square mile than any other state in the country. According to some environmental and public advocacy groups, the state’s vast number of vehicles…

  • Two sentenced in hate crime spree

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer FREEHOLD — After pleading guilty, two of five teens charged in a North Middletown hate crimes spree are now serving jail time. Of the three girls and two boys charged in the July bias crime vandalism at and around St. Catherine’s Roman Catholic Church,…

  • Committee OKs ban on hand-held cell phones

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Committee OKs ban on hand-held cell phones BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — The township is now the third municipality in Monmouth County to put the kibosh on having your ear to the phone while driving. The Township Committee decided to beat the state to the punch by…

  •  TRWRA will be getting by on less this year

    Utility able to cut budget by reducing debt service, health insurance costs BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer  TRWRA will be getting by on less this year Utility able to cut budget by reducing debt service, health insurance costs BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer MONMOUTH BEACH — The Two Rivers Water Reclamation…

  • Charities struggle to meet growing demands of needy

    Salvation Army, Food Bank say more working families seek assistance BY SANDI CARPELLOStaff Writer BY SANDI CARPELLO Staff Writer RED BANK — Three-hundred turkeys, 200 Elmos and a partridge in a pear tree. As the giving season approaches, the Red Bank Salvation Army has found itself with more and more mouths to feed and more…

  • Local physician captures

    Ms. Senior America crown BY SANDI CARPELLOStaff Writer BY SANDI CARPELLO Staff Writer SANDI CARPELLO Dr. Sandra Greco OCEANPORT — Like vintage wine, as Dr. Sandra Greco got older, she got better. "I remember when I was turning 60, I thought that sounded kind of old," she recalled. "But just because you’re over 60 doesn’t…

  • Ernst seeking a recount in Borough Council race

    BY SANDI CARPELLOStaff Writer BY SANDI CARPELLO Staff Writer RED BANK — The Borough Council candidate who lost the Nov. 4 election by 25 votes has demanded a recount. Republican candidate Kay Ernst, who advocated for less development and a "better, not bigger, Red Bank," said she wanted to make sure her loss was not…

  • Chef cooks up latest Source program success

    Offers studentslessons in business along with tasty recipes BY SANDI CARPELLOStaff Writer Offers students lessons in business along with tasty recipes BY SANDI CARPELLO Staff Writer Quaniesha Frost and LaShawn Carpenter prepare a shrimp sauce for their stuffed peppers at Pilgrim Baptist Church. RED BANK — Chef Henry Tindel makes a lot of dough —…

  • Group continuing fight against privatizing fort

    Grassroots citizens’ organization Save Sandy Hook held its first annual meeting recently and members re-elected Judith Stanley Coleman of Middletown as chairwoman and Ben Forest of Red Bank as vice chairman. The group was founded about a year ago to oppose the National Park Service plan to lease to a local real estate developer 36…