Category: HUB News

  • Workers cite stress as serious problem lindsey siegle The Hub

    Workers cite stress as serious problem lindsey siegle The Hub Not much seems to have changed for the workforce of the local phone company in its labor disputes over the years. Kathleen Merlette of Middletown and Barbara Farmer of Eatontown, both longtime employees, where walking the picket line from 6 to 11 a.m. at Verizon’s…

  • Lawyer hired Attorney also represents Riverview Towers in Navesink John Burton

    Lawyer hired Attorney also represents Riverview Towers in Navesink John Burton RED BANK — At least one of the remaining tenants of the Navesink Gables apartment building has retained a lawyer to help save his home from the wrecking ball. Bruce Freeman, a Westfield attorney, has been hired by Lester Starnes in a try to…

  • Helistop operation continuing for now West Long Branch now checking with state on use of site Elaine Van Develde

    Helistop operation continuing for now West Long Branch now checking with state on use of site Elaine Van Develde Neither chronic complaints, nor municipal meetings, nor vehement violations have stopped the West Long Branch "helistop" from flooding the sky with flurries of hovering helicopters — not yet, anyway. For now, there seems to be no…

  • Small film company hoping to make linda denicola The Hub

    Small film company hoping to make linda denicola The Hub Jerry Wolkowitz The minds behind Jersey Bred Productions, (l-r) accountant Leigh Kremer of Long Branch, Greg Russo of West Orange, producer Allen Cognata of Middletown, and writer/producer Virgil Ranaudo of Aberdeen, discuss their new movie Ghetto Dawg at a recent Saturday meeting. There’s a new…

  • linda denicola The Hub

    linda denicola The Hub Linda DeNicola Red Bank merchants object to these green labels stuck on surfaces around town. Unsightly and enigmatic stickers have been affixed to almost every available pole in Red Bank’s downtown area, and Ingeborg Perndorfer, chairwoman of RiverCenter’s board of directors, is determined to find out who did it. So far…

  • Swim!

    Kaitlyn Murphy and Marybeth Vonarno, both 10, enjoy a swim at the Monmouth Beach Club Pool earlier this month.

  • Tattoo you, and you, and you Young and old, sailors and surgeons now sporting body art john burton The Hub

    Tattoo you, and you, and you Young and old, sailors and surgeons now sporting body art john burton The Hub JEFF HUNTLEY Lee O’Brien applies a tattoo to a customer at Tic-Tattoo in Red Bank Long associated with unsavory characters, tattooing, and body piercing, has drifted into mainstream culture. Once the domain of bikers, convicts…

  • Carving a meditation for bowl maker LINDA DeNICOLA The Hub

    Carving a meditation for bowl maker LINDA DeNICOLA The Hub PhotoS by Jeff Huntley Bowl maker Kees Wagenvoord works on his next creation. It is not surprising that bowl maker Kees Wagenvoord has a Zen master’s approach toward carving. Although he is Presbyterian, he has studied Zen Buddhism and understands the meditative opportunities inherent in…

  • Shrewsbury mourns family in copter crash Lindsey siegle The Hub

    Shrewsbury mourns family in copter crash Lindsey siegle The Hub Days after the tragic news, people in Shrewsbury were still struggling to come to terms with the death of the Jordan-Herscovitz family. William John "Jack" Jordan, 51, his wife Jan S. Herscovitz, 49, and their two children, Max Jordan, 16, and Lindsey Jordan, 15, died…