Category: HUB News

OCEANPORT – Kortney’s Challenge drew more than 500 supporters to Monmouth Park. raising over $64,000 that will directly benefit The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s (CHOP) pediatric brain tumor research consortium. The Kortney Rose Foundation (KRF) announced a record 52 percent increase in funds raised at the 10th Annual Family Fun Run on Aug. 9 to…

TOP PICK The Asbury Park Oyster Festival will close out summer with nonstop fun, live music and great food: 5-10 p.m. Sept. 11, noon to 10 p.m. Sept. 12 and noon to 6 p.m. Sept. 13. The three-day festival takes place in the shadow of the historic Carousel building and features more than 70 arts…

The Ornstein Family Foundation, Affiliated Foot and Ankle Center, LLP and The Ohana Rising Yoga School are excited to bring Yoga Gangsters, a Miami-based national non-profit organization whose mission is to empower youth by addressing the symptoms of trauma and poverty using the practice of yoga, delivering messages of empowerment around self-respect, self-control, and self-awareness,…

By MICHAEL NUNES Staff Writer RED BANK – Councilwoman Kathy Horgan has been chosen to be the new Borough Council president. Horgan, a Democrat, succeeds former councilman Arthur Murphy, who resigned from council Aug. 10. “Arthur Murphy III was a great council president who executed his duties professionally and graciously. I have big shoes to…

MICHAEL NUNES Staff Writer RED BANK – Local Democrats have named Board of Education member Michael Ballard to run for election to a Borough Council seat in the November general election. Red Bank Democratic Chairman Ed Zipprich announced Aug. 31 that Ballard has been nominated by the Democratic County Committee to run in place of…

By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer Sherry Prioli watches as her sons Joe, 12, and Nick, 10, play a numbers game at the Howell Public Library. The eight Prioli children have been home schooled. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR As summer draws to a close, many families turn their attention to the upcoming school year. Shopping for…

By MICHAEL NUNES Staff Writer Three proposals have resulted in three strikes. That is the present view taken by the Red Bank Environmental Commission, which has weighed in on three proposals submitted for Marine Park. And the RBEC has concluded for now that all three have fallen short in securing that the park remain natural…

By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer Left: Pasqualina and Giuseppe Angello on their 25th wedding anniversary in 1926. Right: Santino and Marianna Fedele on their wedding day in 1928. As a child, Gloria Bucco remembers her father telling her stories about older relatives who left Italy to settle in the small town of Matawan, New…

By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer The 40th annual New Jersey Clearwater Festival will have at its heart a day of remembrance and celebration of the men who started it all — Pete Seeger and Bob Killian. Presented by the New Jersey Friends of Clearwater, the free Clearwater Festival will take place at Brookdale Community…