Category: HUB News

  • Snow business

    Top to bottom: Josh Corris builds a snowman on Broad Street during a sunny afternoon in downtown Red Bank on Dec. 29. Michael Heyer, of Colts Neck, shovels out snow piled high along a section of Broad Street. A clearing shoveled in the snowbanks gives a view of pedestrians making their way through the snow-blanketed…

  • Rumson, F.H. agree on shared athletic fields

    Rumson to add five travel soccer teams BYANDREWDAVISON Staff Writer RUMSON — An agreement between Rumson and Fair Haven would balance field use between the municipalities’ shared recreation programs, according to Rumson Mayor John Ekdahl. Rumson and Fair Haven recreation programs share girls lacrosse, flag football, Pop Warner youth football and crew teams, Ekdahl said,…

  • Navy Seabee returns to his BMS Dolphins

    Students welcome teacher’s return from tour in Iraq BYANDREWDAVISON Staff Writer Justin Mayer, a physical education teacher at Bayshore Middle School in Middletown, recently returned from deployment in Iraq with the U.S. Navy Reserve Seabees and was welcomed back by students on Dec. 6. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Bayshore Middle School celebrated the return…

  • Local inventors recognized for telecommunications patent work

    Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs inventors (l-r)Thomas Woo of Red Bank, Thyagarajan Nandagopal ofMiddletown, T.V. Lakshman ofMorganville and Krishan Sabnani of Westfield received the 2010 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award. ThomasY. Woo, Red Bank, anAlcatel- Lucent inventor, along with colleague inventors Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Tirunell V. Lakshman, Krishan K. Sabnani and Ramachandran Ramjee, was recognized for his role…

  • Tinton Falls defers school tax payment

    Finance director warns of possible $2M revenue shortfall BY KENNYWALTER TINTON FALLS — Borough attorney Brian Nelson assured the Borough Council last month that all the school taxes will be paid on time despite a resolution deferring a payment to the school district. Nelson’s explanation came right before the council voted to defer $3 million…

  • Freeholders will reorganize Jan. 6

    The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders will hold a Sine Die meeting at 11 a.m. Jan. 6 in the Monmouth County Hall of Records, Main Street, Freehold. This meeting is held to conclude financial and other business matters for 2010. The Latin term Sine Die means the final adjournment of a legislative session, without adjourning…

  • stork club 

    Jersey Shore UniversityMedical Center, Neptune, announced the birth of a boy on Aug. 2 to Kristen and Andrew Mautner of Tinton Falls. Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, announces the following births: Nov. 30, a girl to Tara and Jeff Newman of Oceanport. Dec. 22, a boy to Erin D. and Michael J. Hicks of Red…

  • New Jersey Marathon to expand south

    BY KENNYWALTER LONG BRANCH— Art Castellano’s favorite quote is: “The only thing constant in staging a marathon is change.” Castellano, the director of the New Jersey Marathon, said recently that the May 1 race will expand south in 2011. In an interview last week, Castellano said Oceanport was added to themarathon circuit, which was a…

  • 9/11 health care bill one signature away

    BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — Rep. Frank Pallone (D-6th District) said his last vote of the year was a special one. Pallone and both chambers of Congress passed the James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act on Dec. 22, a bill aimed at allocating money for health care for 9/11 first responders…