Category: HUB News

  • Something’s cooking in Tinton Falls

    Café, bakery will supplymutual support for solobusiness venture By gloria stravelliStaff Writer Café, bakery will supply mutual support for solo business venture By gloria stravelli Staff Writer CHRISKELLY Café 106 is designed to offer affordable, nutritious food to business people in a hurry. This time, Karen Grieco is doing it for herself. Grieco, well known…

  • Boro seeing largest tax increase in years

    Municipal rate expected to rise 11 percent to cover operations By sandi carpelloStaff Writer By sandi carpello Staff Writer RUMSON — Borough property owners will see a municipal tax increase in 2003. "It’s not a good year," said Business Administrator Gary Sammon. "It’s been a very tough budget." The introduction of the municipal budget, which…

  • Masks a silent call for halt to beating of war drums

    Freehold Borough womaninspired after attendingWashington, D.C., event By linda denicolaStaff Writer Freehold Borough woman inspired after attending JEFF GRANIT Donna Koloski of Freehold Borough holds one of the masks she created after being inspired at an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C. She created two masked figures and one mask that are on display, along with…

  • Friends, community turn out for McHeffey race

    Annual event helps fund scholarships for R-FH high school students By Sherry conohanStaff Writer By Sherry conohan Staff Writer Ed Moran Participants and spectators of the Keith McHeffey 3-mile fun run enjoy the post race festivities at Donovan’s Reef in Sea Bright on Sunday. SEA BRIGHT — With the memory of 9/11 and the loss…

  • No precedents for her legal challenge

    Red Bank attorney remains on trail she blazed 70 years ago By gloria stravelliStaff Writer By gloria stravelli Staff Writer JEFFGRANIT More than seven decades into her legal career, Florence Forgotson, Red Bank, is still practicing. One of the first female NYU Law School graduates, she had to wear a man’s robe at graduation (right…

  • Cultural center offers ‘Shared Visions’ exhibit

    By josh davidsonStaff Writer Cultural center offers ‘Shared Visions’ exhibit By josh davidson Staff Writer By josh davidson Staff Writer JOSH DAVIDSON Gail Griffiths (l), Ocean Township, and Jennie Meares, Matawan, held an opening for the “Shared Visions” art exhibit at the Monmouth Beach Cultural Center last Friday. When Matawan resident Jennie Meares first got…

  • Town explores rezoning proposed town center site

    Plans made to retainconsultant to adviseofficials By elaine van develdeStaff Writer Plans made to retain consultant to advise officials By elaine van develde Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — A proposed zon­ing designation could crush plans to bring a town center to the 137.5 acres stretching from Kings Highway to Kanes Lane on Route 35. In an…

  • Middlesex sewage spill flushed with saltwater

    By elaine van develdeStaff Writer By elaine van develde Staff Writer After a Middlesex County sewage pipe broke March 2, sending some 570 million gallons of raw sewage into the Raritan River, the spill’s repercussions seeped into the shellfish industry off Sandy Hook. The leak in the pipe at the foot of Boehmhurst Avenue in…

  • Borough approves plan to get help for Sickels

    Assistant administrator sought to ease burden on official with 3 positions By sandi carpelloStaff Writer Borough approves plan to get help for Sickels By sandi carpello Staff Writer RED BANK — The telephones ring off the hook in Stanley Sickels’ borough office. "He gets so many calls — dozens," said Hedy Clayton, Sickels’ administra­tive secretary.…