Category: HUB News

  • Helicopter controversy rises up in Sea Bright

    Staff Writer By lindey siegle After nearly 16 years in use, questions are being raised about the helicopter landing site on Route 36 in the north end of Sea Bright. At the end of August, Robert Corby, the borough’s construction code official, received a letter from Fox & Gemma, L.L.C., representing the "Surfrider Beach Club…

  • WHOA gets its way with Willowbrook Farm Tinton Falls council deadlocks on zoning change

    Staff Writer By elaine van develde WHOA gets its way with Willowbrook Farm Tinton Falls council deadlocks on zoning change The cows came home. The vote is set. The horses have it. Whoa means no. There will be no active adult community on Willowbrook Farm. Tinton Falls preservationists, organized as WHOA (Willow-brook Has Our Attention),…

  • Street Festival promotes unity

    Najiyyah Muhammad of Irvington examines a variety of items for sale at the "Unity in the Community" Street Festival along Catherine Street, Red Bank, on Saturday. JERRY WOLKOWITZ

  • Search for new home dogging local canine club

    Correspondent By CLARE M. MASI Officials of the Bayshore Companion Dog Club are scouring the county for a new location where they can continue to offer obedience and agility training to dogs. The Bayshore Companion Dog Club has been helping dog owners train their prized possessions for more than 20 years. Now the club is…

  • business The Broad Street Journal RUSSO NAMED ‘VAN OPERATOR OF YEAR’

    business The Broad Street Journal RUSSO NAMED ‘VAN OPERATOR OF YEAR’ The New Jersey Warehousemen & Movers Association (NJWMA) has recognized Andy Russo with its "Van Operator of the Year" award. The award was bestowed at the NJWMA Annual Conference and Trade Show held earlier this year. Russo is an employee with American Movers, Long…

  • Prown’s still rolling after 75 years

    Staff Writer By linda denicola Marie Ortiz Taking care of business at Prown’s in Red Bank are owner David Prown, Harriet Force and Steve Ruzicka. The Broad Street store is well-known for its Lionel trains and wide array of merchandise. From the early days of the Prown-Cooper department store in 1925 right up to today,…

  • Navesink House addition denied by zoning board

    Staff Writer By john burton RED BANK — Don’t look for construction equipment at The Navesink House anytime soon. In a unanimous vote at its Sept. 21 meeting, the borough’s Zoning Board of Adjustment denied the application of The Navesink House, a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community at 40 Riverside Ave., to build a 55,000-square-foot…

  • Gray making run in 6th for Greens

    Staff Writer By JOHN BURTON Red Bank resident Earl Gray is the Green Party candidate for Congress in the 6th District. He, like the party’s presidential candidate Ralph Nader, is running on a platform of ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy and corporate accountability. His name is Gray, he lives in Red Bank, and he’s…

  • Residents question use of Bicentennial Hall

    CorrespondentFAIR HAVEN By darlene diebold Residents question use of Bicentennial Hall Correspondent FAIR HAVEN — At Monday night’s Borough Council meeting, the question of the evening became "Can the public use Bicentennial Hall?" On Saturday night the Historic Association held its annual Garden Party there. Some residents were under the impression that the building is…