Category: HUB News

  • Breast cancer is theme for Red Bank Catholic’s dance show

    RED BANK — The Red Bank Catholic Dance Company will perform a show dedicated to breast cancer awareness on Thursday. Through dance and song, the performers will depict the stages a breast cancer patient goes through and the strength needed to recover and survive. The show will take the audience from the initial diagnosis, through…

  • Thompson Park Day

    Clockwise from left: Attendees enter a cornfield for the “Amazing Maize Maze” at Thompson Park Day on Oct 17. A large field at the Middletown park was the setting for building scarecrows. The motionless “Golden Man” puzzles a curious crowd. Thompson Park Day festivities also included a climbing wall, wagon rides, pumpkin painting, kids’ races,…

  • Red Bank revamps taxi ordinance

    Council will vote on new licensing rules Oct. 25 BY DAN HOWLEY Correspondent RED BANK — Local taxi owners fearful of a jump in borough licensing fees are breathing a collective sigh of relief following the Borough Council’s introduction of a new licensing ordinance last week. The ordinance, which the council introduced unanimously at the…

  • 9/11 responder bill headed for Senate vote

    House approves James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-6th District) is surrounded by members of the New York congressional delegation, members of the FealGood Foundation and 9/11 responders at a rally at ground zero in New York last spring. LONG BRANCH — After months spent…

  • F.H. awaits bids from private carters

    BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent FAIR HAVEN — The borough is expecting to receive bids for refuse collection from private carting companies by the end of November, Borough Administrator Mary Howell said Monday. At the Oct. 12 Borough Council meeting, Mayor Michael Halfacre said he expected the savings from switching from collection by borough employees to…

  • O’port seeks county $$ for track at Gatta Park

    BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer OCEANPORT — With the application already sent in, borough officials are confident about the prospect of securing a matching grant from the Monmouth County Open Space Grant program. If the application is approved, the borough would receive a $25,000 grant that would be used to construct a walking or jogging…

  • Fire chief wants F.H. to opt out of county dispatch

    Delay in time from receipt of call to dispatch cited BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent FAIR HAVEN — Borough Fire Chief Jim Cerutti told the mayor and council members at the Borough Council meeting last week that the performance of Monmouth County in fulfilling its contract to dispatch fire and first aid emergency calls for the…

  • Photo

    A group of volunteers from World Changers scraped and painted the trim of the 130-year-old Laurel House, a boarding home serving the homeless in Asbury Park. World Changers performed the work as a service project. The three-story building is home to 30 people and is operated by HABcore, a nonprofit providing supportive housing for the…

  • NJSBA wants talks on tenure reform

    The New Jersey School Boards Association has called on the state Legislature and the administration of Gov. Chris Christie to begin serious discussion of changes in the state’s century old tenure laws that govern employment of public school teachers and other school district employees. According to a press release from the NJSBA, to promote public…