Category: HUB News

  • County is not likely to postpone bridge work

    Staff Writer By Sherry conohan County is not likely to postpone bridge work LITTLE SILVER — Schools Superintendent Marjorie Heller has protested to Monmouth County that replacement of a bridge on Seven Bridges Road, just north of the Point Road School, should be delayed for a year while construction on the planned expansion of the…

  • ‘Remember! Celebrate! Act! A Day On, Not a Day Off!’

    ‘Remember! Celebrate! Act! A Day On, Not a Day Off!’ The Rev. Millard W. Harris Jr. was the featured speaker at the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Observance Service at Fort Monmouth Post Chapel on Jan. 16. Harris was pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church in Red Bank from August 1975 until his retirement in…

  • No money left in open space till; options scant

    No money left in open space till; options scant By elaine van develde Staff Writer TINTON FALLS — When it comes to open space in the borough, the latest worry is where to go from here. An increase in the open space tax was voted down on the November 2001 ballot. The money garnered from…

  • Despite Avaya back-out, park plans are still intact

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde TINTON FALLS — With the borough’s Shafto Road corridor destined for development, officials assure the public that a 25-acre park is a done deal and an open space promise kept. The park is, and has been, one developer’s pledge for one tract. That developer is Towsend Capital of Maryland,…

  • Ex-employee is arrested for robbery

    Staff Writer By john burton Ex-employee is arrested for robbery RED BANK — Police arrested a former employee of a Shrewsbury Avenue store whom they say was involved in the theft of $33,000 from the business. Philip Wright was arrested by borough police Jan. 11 for his involvement in a robbery occurring outside Katsin’s Pharmacy,…

  • ‘Hands Across Red Bank’ reaches out to fulfill dream

    Staff Writer By JOHN BURTON ‘Hands Across Red Bank’ reaches out to fulfill dream RED BANK — Joining hands and singing "We Shall Overcome," borough children and other community members gathered to celebrate and honor the life and legacy of slain civil rights leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Monday. "We do have…

  • Mayor hopes to postpone property re-evaluation

    Staff Writer By JOHN BURTON SEA BRIGHT — The property re-evaluation the borough is mandated to conduct is as inevitable as taxes, but the mayor hopes to postpone it anyway. Mayor Gregory Harquail told the council and public at last week’s meeting he planned to meet with members of the county’s Board of Taxation in…

  • A community keeps King’s dream alive

    VERONICA YANKOWSKI Robert Hardy recites his own poetry about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to fourth-graders at the Red Bank Primary School on Jan. 18. JOHN BURTON The Red Bank Regional High School choir sings at the YMCA breakfast to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Squire’s Court, West Long…

  • Innovative arts center in the works for L.B.

    Innovative arts center in the works for L.B. Michael M. Simpson (l), vice president, and Douglas Ferrari, executive director, of the Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, stand in front of the building the group hopes to acquire as the site for an innovative new arts center. At left, renovations to the abandoned industrial building…