Category: HUB News

  • Ocean defense benefit concert at Hooligan’s

    The Benefit for Ocean Defense/WHTG Local Licks concert will be on Sept. 7, 8 p.m. at Hooligan’s, 369 Broadway in Long Branch. Donation is $7 at the door. The concert will benefit the Ocean Defense Fund, dedicated to preventing the continued dumping of toxic mud along the Jersey shore. Performing live will be Sea of…

  • Middletown woman killed while cycling

    TINTON FALLS — A Middletown woman was struck and killed by a dump truck last week while bicycling through the intersection of Normandy and Swimming River roads, said officials with Naval Weapons Station Earle in Colts Neck. Christine M. Shaheen, 33, of Middletown was killed Aug. 22 when she collided with a dump truck as…

  • Changes may keep volunteer organizations going in future

    By lindsey siegle SHREWSBURY — The borough’s volunteer fire department will have an easier time adjusting to meet its needs in the future. The Borough Council recently adopted an ordinance allowing the department to change its rules by making changes in its bylaws. Previously, the department had to come to the council and request that…

  • Red Cross moving to Tinton Falls

    By linda denicola JEFF HUNTLEY Tara Kelly, director of development for the American Red Cross, Jersey Coast Chapter, sits outside the organization’s new facility in Tinton Falls. After more than 80 years the American Red Cross is leaving Shrewsbury. The local chapter of the relief agency is relocating to the former Sebastian Perfume Plant at…

  • HealthSouth plans Tinton Falls location

    By elaine van develde HealthSouth, an accredited rehabilitation facility, is coming to Tinton Falls soon. The idea came before the Planning Board recently, and it was met with positive feedback from members of the board. "It would be the only health-care center of this type for miles around," Mayor Ann McNamara said. "In fact, I…

  • Rumson’s first dance studio to open soon

    By linda denicola Jeff Huntley Dawn Bess, owner of Steppin Out Dance Studio in Rumson, is about to open the town’s first dance studio. The Steppin Out Dance Studio, formerly located in the Red Bank Galleria, has moved to Rumson and will be ready to open for the fall semester. The studio had been in…

  • Complaint issued against helipad Elaine van develde The Hub

    Complaint issued against helipad Elaine van develde The Hub Just when people thought there was no stopping the West Long Branch helipad, an official complaint landed in the owner’s hands. That was Wednesday of last week. The copters are still flying out of the pad at Monmouth Park Corporate Center II, right or not, and…

  • Clearwater Festival held

    Delaney Myller, 3, of Fair Haven enjoys a drink along with all the other festivities at the Clearwater Festival on Sandy Hook over the weekend. JEFF HUNTLEY

  • United Way to continue funding Boy Scouts Lindsey Siegle The Hub

    United Way to continue funding Boy Scouts Lindsey Siegle The Hub If it’s OK with the U.S. Supreme Court, that’s good enough for the United Way of Monmouth County. At its annual meeting last week the board of directors of the nonprofit organization that raises and distributes funds to local nonprofit agencies and organizations decided…