Category: HUB News

  • Red Bank Catholic bounced back der=0 bgcolor=”#D0D0D0″> Lynne Zoltowski congratulates teammate Janine Cappadonna after Red Bank Catholic bounced back to beat the Immaculate Heart Academy 60-45 in the state parochial championships last weekend. The Caseys will go on to the Tournament of Champions tomorrow. JACKIE POLLACK

  • Council nixes sandwich boards, skateboards john burton The Hub RED BANK — Skateboards and sandwich board signs — two issues that have been the subject of much debate, concern and consternation recently were once again bantered about at Tuesday’s Borough Council meeting. The council introduced the first reading of an ordinance that for all intent…

  • Fair Haven plans to renovate elementary school buildings School administrators say number of school-age children is rising der=0 bgcolor=”#D0D0D0″> JERRY WOLKOWITZ Fair Haven school officials say enrollment is up, and projections indicate the trend will continue. To make room for the students they are proposing renovations and a small addition to the Sickles School shown…

  • Tinton Falls 911 overhaul may cut jobs, costs Non-emergency calls to be shifted to county system Elaine Van Develde The Hub TINTON FALLS — If an ordinance regarding non-emergency 911 calls is approved next week, six town dispatchers will find themselves jobless at the borough’s hands. The ordinance, set to be passed Tuesday, hands over…

  • Soaring gasoline prices affect more than customers Regular gas could top off at $1.80 per gallon by Memorial Day der=0 bgcolor=”#D0D0D0″> JERRY WOLKOWITZ The Sunoco station on River Road in Fair Haven shows the rising prices of gas. The 99-cent-per-gallon prices of last summer seem like ancient history now, and officials say this summer could…

  • McKenna challenges Scudiery, 11-year chair McKenna makes bid for county Democratic chairmanship der=0 bgcolor=”#D0D0D0″> Red Bank’s Mayor Edward J. McKenna Jr. will make a bid this year for the chair of the Democratic county organization. Here he is flanked by Red Bank Councilmen Tom Hintelmann and R.J. Bifani during the trio’s last re-election in 1998.…

  • Skateboarders work for their own playground Fair Haven restaurant Raven and Peach donates to park plans Shannon Kelly The Hub FAIR HAVEN — Like grown-ups planning the layout of their dream house, a group of skateboarders leaned in close over paper cut-outs of concrete ramps laid out before them. Moving around the boxes, pyramids, rails…

  • 3rd bomb threat closes Brookdale sites, again MIDDLETOWN — School closings are becomingly increasingly too familiar at Brookdale Community College, after a third bomb threat in less than a month closed the school on Thursday. The school closed its main campus in Lincroft and its extension sites in Hazlet, Freehold Township, Long Branch and Asbury…

  • NJ State Youth Orchestra der=0 bgcolor=”#D0D0D0″> Here rehearsing their performance, the NJ State Youth Orchestra helped celebrate the Monmouth Conservatory’s 35th Anniversary with a concert last week at Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank. SEAN GUTHRIDGE