Category: HUB News

  • Celebrating 75 Years —

    David Prown organizes the shelves of his variety store this week in preparation for Prown’s 75th anniversary sale this week. Items in the store will be sold at special prices harking back to the days when the store first opened in 1925. Jeff Huntley

  • Council approves plan for building on river Little Silver receives $100,000 check for Parker House

    Correspondent By DARLENE DIEBOLD Council approves plan for building on river Little Silver receives $100,000 check for Parker House LITTLE SILVER — The good news is here for George and Diana Coyne. After 16 months of waiting, they now know they can go ahead with their dream house. At Monday night’s Borough Council meeting, the…

  • Deer damages downtown restaurant, doctor’s office

    Deer damages downtown restaurant, doctor’s office John Burton A deer shattered two windows at Juanito’s on Sunday morning before being put down by police at the borough’s garage on Chester Street. RED BANK — A male deer somehow made its way into the borough causing damage to a number of Monmouth Street locations on Sunday…

  • American Girl Doll Party

    Grace Duffy, Allison Vossler, Kate Olson and Samantha Oncea play with their dolls during the Rumson chapter of the Junior League’s American Girl Doll Party. JEFF HUNTLEY

  • Dems, GOP face off at candidates night

    Staff Writer By JOHN BURTON Pasquale Menna RED BANK — For the four candidates running for Borough Council, it is about priorities, neighborhood preservation, quality of life, and — more than might be expected — parks. At the recent annual "Meet the Candidates Night" sponsored by the West Side Community Group, Republican candidates Dick Bennett…

  • Program offers help to those helping others

    Staff Writer By john burton Program offers help to those helping others RED BANK — Fighting cancer is an uphill battle, and those struggling against that terrible disease need their allies. But in the current health-care atmosphere, shorter hospital stays are becoming the norm, and so more of the responsibility is falling on family members…

  • Fire company ready to raise the roof

    Correspondent By darlene diebold RUMSON — The borough’s fire department has had a new 100-foot aerial truck for a year — and it should finally have it in the firehouse before another year passes. Since the company took delivery on the 1998 E1 truck, it has been sitting in the borough garage. The $495,000 vehicle…

  • Chase executive universally respected Thomas G. Labrecque, 62, who died Monday, guided bank through difficult time

    Staff Writer By john burton Chase executive universally respected Thomas G. Labrecque, 62, who died Monday, guided bank through difficult time T homas G. Labrecque, of Fair Haven, died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, on Monday from lung cancer. He was 62. At the time of his death, Labrecque was chairman of…

  • West Long Branch helistop court date moved

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde Right when critics of the West Long Branch helistop thought their day in court was at hand, the case, once again, hovers on hold with a 60 day postponement. The hearing was supposed to be symbolic of the end to a second consecutive summer saga of what residents in…