Category: HUB News

  • River Rats offers sailing instruction

    FAIR HAVEN — This summer, local youngsters will have the opportunity to learn to sail with the Fair Haven Sailing Club, known locally as River Rats, an organization that has been teaching sailing for more than 50 years from its home on the Navesink River. Parents can learn more about the program and enroll their…

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    Red Bank Regional High School students rehearse a scene in the musical “Once Upon a Mattress.” The play will be presented at RBR, 101 Ridge Road in Little Silver, 7 p.m. April 7; 7:30 p.m. April 8; 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. April 9; and 3 p.m. April 10. Tickets are $10 for students and…

  • Red Bank Regional District presents flat $26M budget

    Superintendent: Tax levy rise due to lack of surplus funds BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer LITTLE SILVER — The Red Bank Regional High School District Board of Education presented a $26 million budget that is below last year’s but that calls for a tax levy increase of 1.9 percent. The total budget of $26 million…

  • Spring Lake: a little bit of everything

    BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer Downtown Spring Lake Named for the spring-fed lake in the middle of the town’s Divine Park and nicknamed the “Irish Riviera” after the town’s wealthy founders, Spring Lake is a haven for relaxation and beauty along the Jersey Shore. Just two miles long by one mile wide with tree-lined streets…

  • Hydrofracking subject of Brookdale panel

    MIDDLETOWN — Brookdale Community College will host an expert panel discussion on the risk of hydrofracking, the controversial procedure that opponents claim is resulting in dangerously contaminated drinking water. The free event will take place Wednesday, April 6, at 7:15 p.m. It will be held in theWarner Student Life Center, Twin Lights rooms I and…

  • Historic county sites to be open for visits

    ‘W eekend in Old Monmouth” returns again with 40 historic sites throughout Monmouth County opening their doors to visitors interested in local history. Hours for most sites are from10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 30 and from noon to 5 p.m. May 1. “Forty historic sites will participate in the third ‘Weekend in Old Monmouth’event,”…

  • ‘Food for Fines’ program at libraries in April

    Patrons with overdue books can close the book on library late fees and donate to their local food pantry at the same time under the Monmouth County Library’s “Fines for Food” program. Anyone who brings in a nonperishable food item to any Monmouth County library branch during National Library Week in April can get $2…

  • O’port district budget is under state cap

    Voters will weigh in on $9.7M spending plan on April 27 BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer OCEANPORT — The borough Board of Education has approved a $9.7 million 2011-12 spending plan with a 1.86 percent school tax increase that stays under the state cap . Approved unanimously at the board’s March 24 budget hearing, the…

  • ‘Little Women’ at Ranney

    A cast of middle- and upper-school students at Ranney School, Tinton Falls, performs on March 26 in the spring musical, an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women.” PHOTOS BY LAUREN CASSELBERRY