Category: HUB News

  • HABcore gets $10K grant from Tower Hill Church

    RED BANK — HABcore will use a $10,000 grant from the Tower Hill First Presbyterian Church at Red Bank to refurbish its boarding homes in the borough. Habcore, a nonprofit that provides supportive housing for the homeless and disabled, received the grant through Tower Hill’s “Vision for the Hill” program. The grants will be used…

  • Freeholder calls on Brookdale trustees to resign

    Curley: Abuse of expenses by college president under investigation BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer Freeholder Deputy Director John Curley Freeholder Deputy Director John Curley said Monday he would be calling for the resignation of the Board of Trustees and board attorney for Brookdale Community College in Middletown over excessive expenditures associated with the college President’s…

  • Towns to share $300K cost of burst sewage pipe

    TRWRA: Service to residents won’t be uninterrupted BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT — Residents of Sea Bright and Rumson are expected to share the cost of the bill for a burst sewage pipe that left a more than 6-foot-deep sinkhole in Sea Bright early last month. The reinforced concrete sewage pipe failed on…

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    Harpist Marjorie Mollenauer performs at the Eastern Branch Library, Shrewsbury, March 4 in a concert that featured Irish favorites and a discussion of the history of the harp. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Frank Talk presents black history programs

    RED BANK — Local actress Lorraine Stone will bring a great heroine of black women’s history to life in “A Woman Named Mary Bowser” at Frank Talk Art Bistro and Books on March 19 and 20. Mary Bowser was born a slave in 1839 on a plantation in Virginia. Her contribution to the outcome of…

  • Physician charged with distributing drugs

    A Monmouth County grand jury has returned an indictment charging a Tinton Falls physician with various crimes relating to the alleged illicit distribution of oxycodone. Dr. Barry K. Ray Jr., 36, of Tinton Falls, was named in the indictment that was handed down on Feb. 7. In May 2010, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office began…

  • State issues Request for Proposals for Monmouth Park

    Winning applicant will land five-year lease of racetrack BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer Monmouth Park Local officials are praising the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA) for issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the lease of Monmouth Park in Oceanport. Issued on March 3 and due by March 31, the RFP offers qualified…

  • Red Bank council meetings move to Wednesdays

    — Andrew Davison RED BANK — Borough Council meetings have been moved to Wednesdays. The Borough Council approved a resolution last week that moves the meetings from Mondays to Wednesdays. The meetings, which currently convene at 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Mondays of the month, will now take place at the same time…

  • Irish strings

    Harpist Marjorie Mollenauer performs in a harp concert at the Eastern Branch Library in Shrewsbury on March 4. The program included a selection of Irish favorites and a discussion on the history of the harp. ERIC SUCAR staff