Category: HUB News
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Boro likely to see 5-cent municipal tax increase
By sandi carpelloStaff Writer By sandi carpello Staff Writer RED BANK — Borough property owners are looking at a municipal tax increase for 2003, officials said this week. There is an estimated 5-cent increase per $100 of assessed valuation for the coming year, said borough Chief Financial Officer Bruce Loversidge. That means, for an average…
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Police pull dog from Polly Pond
By sandi carpelloStaff Writer By sandi carpello Staff Writer RUMSON — One moment Police Sgt. Scott Paterson was conducting his routine office duties; the next he was wading in the freezing Polly Pond — all for the life of a border collie. Paterson, with the assistance of Patrolman Robert Boyer and Animal Control Officer Bob…
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Borough holding the line on property taxes
As introduced, municipal budget eliminates small expected tax rate increase By Sherry conohanStaff Writer By Sherry conohan Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT — A proposed municipal budget of $4,006,002.22 for 2003, which represents a decrease from last year’s budget and which will require no tax increase, has been introduced by the Borough Council. Michael Bascom, the…
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Closed restaurant may become nightclub
By Sherry conohanStaff Writer Closed restaurant may become nightclub By Sherry conohan Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT — The Peninsula Grille has closed and Matthew Bon Jovi, brother of singer Jon Bon Jovi, is negotiating to acquire the liquor license of the restaurant and perhaps turn it into a club, according to the present license holder.…
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Oakland Street School will be back in session
By gloria stravelliStaff Writer By gloria stravelli Staff Writer An artist’s 1971 rendering of the building at 58 Oakland St., which, after being used as a restaurant for 20 years, will return to its former use as a school this fall. The cupola with its school bell is long gone, but the vintage building at…
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One man’s long battle with boro goes public
Surfrider owner airs years of complaints about treatment by town By Sherry conohanStaff Writer By Sherry conohan Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY Jim Lobiondo, owner of the Surfrider Beach Club, voiced dissatisfaction at a recent Borough Council meeting with several matters the borough has dealt with, including its refusal to transfer the Peninsula House liquor license…
