Category: HUB News

  • No director, but DPW operating normally

    By sandi carpelloStaff Writer By sandi carpello Staff Writer RED BANK — Despite operating without a director, the Department of Public Works (DPW) has had few problems dealing with the challenges that have arisen so far this year, according to borough officials. The biggest challenge has certainly been the more than 40 inches of snowfall…

  • Monmouth Community Bank doubled net income in 2002

    Monmouth Community Bancorp, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Monmouth Community Bank, N.A., reported net income of $234,000 for the three-month period ending Dec. 31, 2002, as compared to net income of $103,000 for the same period in 2001, representing an increase of 127 percent, according to a press release. Income tax expenses for this period…

  • Gaffney ready for role as university’s leader

    Vice admiral comesto Monmouth from National Defense University By Sherry conohanStaff Writer Vice admiral comes to Monmouth from National Defense University By Sherry conohan Staff Writer Paul G. Gaffney II WEST LONG BRANCH — Vice Admiral Paul G. Gaffney II, a career naval officer and president since 2000 of the National Defense University in Washington,…

  • High-tech twist to Read Across America Day

    Borough schoolchildren joins hundreds of others in live teleconference By sandi carpelloStaff Writer By sandi carpello Staff Writer RED BANK — Sitting quietly on the library floor, the third-grade students looked patiently at Red Bank Primary School’s 54-inch television screen and waited. Just moments later, the approximately 70 borough third-graders were joined by hundreds of…

  • Residents continue to oppose redevelopment

    For second time, 200 turn out to denounce useof eminent domain By Sherry conohanStaff Writer For second time, 200 turn out to denounce use of eminent domain By Sherry conohan Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT — Despite assurances that they weren’t suggesting statutory redevelopment with condemnation, the planners hired by the borough to conduct a town…

  • New memorial sustains memory of WWII vets

    Plaque to honor boro By sandi carpelloStaff Writer By sandi carpello Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY Fair Haven’s Raymond Taylor (l) and Larry Quigley, members of the borough’s World War II Veterans Committee, stand in front of the 9/11 Monument in Memorial Park. The borough recently established a fund to construct plaques commemorating veterans from Fair…

  • Borough art gallery victimized by embezzler

    Woman suspected intheft by deception onprobation for similar crime By gloria stravelliStaff Writer Woman suspected in theft by deception on probation for similar crime By gloria stravelli Staff Writer Detectives from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office are going over the books of a Long Branch property management company following the arrest of its bookkeeper on…

  • Dead whale washes ashore in Long Branch

    By carolyn o By carolyn o’connell Staff Writer COURTESY OF LONG BRANCH POLICE DEPARTMENT A 17-year-old female pilot whale weighing nearly 3 tons washed up along the surf at the Atlantic Avenue beach on Sunday. LONG BRANCH — A dead whale believed to have been drifting aimlessly offshore for several days came to rest on…

  • Z•E•S•T

    FOR LIVINGConcert to recognize women in classical musicSunday By linda denicolaStaff Writer FOR LIVING Concert to recognize women in classical music Sunday’s concert will include lecture about the seven composers featured By linda denicola Staff Writer Musician Elaine Vander Plate Held is promoting the works of women composers through the fourth annual Honoring Women Composers…