Category: HUB News

  • County Arts Council stages a quiet protest

    Drastic drop in state By gloria stravelliStaff Writer By gloria stravelli Staff Writer Artists sat in gallery windows last weekend to call attention to arts funding cuts. Sopranos refused to trill and artists put down their brushes last weekend in a protest against state budget cuts to the arts. "It was very ‘guerrilla advocacy,’ " said…

  • Work under way on public works building

    By elaine van develdeStaff Writer By elaine van develde Staff Writer TINTON FALLS — Public Works employees will soon be in their new department headquarters. The $2 million Public Works section of the new municipal complex has been fitted together, piece by piece, since the fall of 2002. Prefabricated portions now form the new department…

  • perspective

    In Scooby scrubs, this new dad By gloria stravelliStaff Writer perspective In Scooby scrubs, this new dad’s a role model Pediatric nurse touches lives of patients, parents and his own 10-week-old twins By gloria stravelli Staff Writer Chris Kelly As a pediatric nurse, Peter Enge, of Old Bridge, brings perspective to his new role as…

  • Saturday Boro Council meeting a success

    By sandi carpelloStaff Writer By sandi carpello Staff Writer RED BANK — The experiment worked. The Borough Council, which usually holds its bimonthly municipal meetings at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, wanted to see if they would draw more borough residents on a Saturday morning. And they did. Roughly 30 early risers attended the Borough Council’s…

  • Ekdahl sweeps to victory in GOP mayoral primary

    By sandi carpelloStaff Writer By sandi carpello Staff Writer RUMSON — Voters have picked the person they will, in all likelihood, elect as mayor in November. In the first contested mayoral primary in 20-years, veteran councilman John Ekdahl was selected as the Republican Party’s nominee for mayor, easily out-polling Mark Burdge. Ekdahl, 58, a lifelong…

  • Group spells out its objections to fort plan

    Developer Save Sandy Hook, a grassroots group formed to prevent commercialization of Sandy Hook, has collected more than 1,500 signatures on petitions seeking to block private development on the 1,700-acre barrier peninsula. Headed by Judith Stanley Coleman, Middletown, Save Sandy Hook is opposed to the National Park Service’s plan to sign a 60-year historic lease…

  • Boro seeks grant for bike path

    Route would extendfrom Monmouth Beach to Sandy Hook By sherry conohanStaff Writer Route would extend from Monmouth Beach to Sandy Hook By sherry conohan Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT — The borough wants to build a bicycle and pedestrian trail parallel to Ocean Avenue from Sandy Hook to Monmouth Beach. The Borough Council, at its June…

  • Boro finally has a place to go about its business

    Building dedicated more than three centuries after town was established By Sherry conohanStaff Writer By Sherry conohan Staff Writer SHREWSBURY — Mayor Emilia M. Siciliano beamed as she presided over last Friday’s dedication of the borough’s new municipal building. Siciliano quoted from a report the late Richard Kraybill, a borough historian, made to the mayor…

  • Downtown revamping includes cutting trees

    Landscape work hasbecome part of Prospect Ave. project By sherry cohohanStaff Writer Landscape work has become part of Prospect Ave. project By sherry cohohan Staff Writer LITTLE SILVER — Despite some grousing by a few residents over the loss of mature trees, the Borough Council is moving ahead on its streetscape project on Prospect Avenue.…