Category: HUB News
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King’s dream remembered
Local YMCAs host annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer The memorial breakfast featured guest speaker Dr. Walter D. Greason (top), associate professor of history and American studies, coordinator of the African American and Africana Studies program at Ursinus College. A call for faith, equality and reflection marked…
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MLK Day Breakfast
Top to bottom: Chris LeFever was one of the Red Bank Charter School students who waited on tables during the school’s third annual Martin Luther King Community Service Breakfast on Jan. 15. The breakfast celebrates the spirit of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by encouraging people of all ages to get involved in…
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Red Bank 4th-graders to lead parent conferences
Program gives students ownership of performance BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer RED BANK — Beginning next month, fourth-graders at Red Bank Middle School will lead parent-teacher conferences and walk their parents through an overview of their work, grades and goals. Superintendent Laura Morana said that this initiative aims to foster responsibility and ownership in the…
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Law lays out rules to combat bullying
The 12th District legislators reacted positively this week to the news that Gov. Chris Christie had signed into law the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act, designed to better prepare schools to deal with the act of bullying and its consequences. Sen. Jennifer Beck and Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande (both R-Monmouth and Mercer) were co-sponsors of the…
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R.B. council agrees to sale of historical building
Resolution permits YMCA’s sale of 51 Monmouth St. to St. James Church BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer The historical police building at 51 Monmouth St. and attached firehouse. RED BANK— Despite heated opposition to the agreement, the Red Bank Borough Council approved resolution authorizing a settlement with the Community YMCA for the sale of a…
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Monmouth County Historical Society valentine luncheon to be held Feb. 3
RUMSON — The fifth annual “Red” Luncheon, a valentine luncheon to benefit the Monmouth County Historical Association, will be held on Thursday, Feb. 3, at Rumson Country Club. This year’s event will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will feature a special presentation by Tiffany & Co. titled “Diamonds and Dessert,” as well…
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February programs and events at the Red Bank Library
RED BANK — The Red Bank Public Library will honor African American History Month on Saturday, Feb. 12, with “Preserving Our History,” a talk by Gloria Douglas and Michelle Lewis, founders of Storytellers in Cloth, a group of women of color who carry on the African American tradition of quilting. On view during the program,…
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R.B. residents can sign up for emergency alerts
RED BANK — Councilman Edward Zipprich, liaison to the Public Works Department, and Councilwoman Kathleen Horgan, who chairs the Borough Council’s Education and Technology Committee, urge residents to sign up through the borough’s website for emergency notifications that can be delivered via email, text message, cell or home phones. The electronic notification system is the…
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Maple Place students take anti-bullying pledge
BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer Girl Scouts take the lead to eliminate bullying OCEANPORT — Students at Maple Place School are making a pledge to their classmates, friends and teachers to help stamp out bullying. Part of a grassroots anti-bullying effort developed by 12 local Girl Scouts, the initiative calls for students to sign a…
