Category: HUB News

  • Pub crawl to benefit breast cancer programs

    BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer RED BANK — A fun event organized by resident Jill Kinslow to benefit breast cancer awareness will be held in the borough Saturday, Oct. 2. Kinslow, a Red Bank Catholic (RBC) graduate and current Brookdale Community College student, organized a pub crawl coined “Boozin’ for Boobs,” following her mother’s diagnosis…

  • Count Basie and Jazz Arts Project present Jazz Arts Academy

    RED BANK — The Count Basie Theatre and the Jazz Arts Project will collaborate to produce The Jazz Arts Academy, a music education program designed to enrich the study and performance of jazz for teenage music students. The 10-week program will take place in the studios of the Count Basie’s Performing Arts Academy and will…

  • Ronald McDonald House to host friends & family open house Oct. 2

    LONG BRANCH — The Ronald Mc- Donald House (RMH) of Long Branch will host its seventh annual Friends and Family Open House and Barbecue on Oct. 2 from 1 to 4 p.m. The event reunites past and present families, volunteers, staff and donors of the Ronald McDonald House. In addition to an awards presentation, volunteers…

  • Ocean Grove Fall Festival Oct. 9

    The Ocean Grove Area Chamber of Commerce will host the Ocean Grove Fall Festival on Saturday, Oct. 9, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be events happening all over this seaside town. On Main Avenue, Jo Wymer and her band will entertain from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Master of Blues Chuck Lambert…

  • Sailing superstar will lecture at Twin Lights

    After 15 agonizing years, the Americas Cup finally returned to U.S. hands last February as the 90-foot BMW Oracle Racing trim ran bested Switzerland’s Alight V in the waters off Valencia, Spain. The inside story behind this spectacular victory will be among the topics covered by sailing superstar Gary Jobson in his Oct. 3 presentation,…

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    Elaine Young (center), a volunteer for Family Promise of Monmouth County, watches Carol Barnett and her husband Marc Barnett, both of Colts Neck, build a cardboard box house that they woul spend the night in during the Cardboard Box City event held Sept. 24 at the Monmouth Church of Christ in Tinton Falls to raise…

  • Ground broken in Red Bank for affordable housing

    Cedar Crossing’s 36 units to be built in two phases BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer Ajoyful groundbreaking ceremony for the Cedar Crossing affordable housing development on the borough’s west side was held last week. The Rev. Terrence K. Porter, president of the Red Bank Affordable Housing Corp., addresses those gathered for the groundbreaking for Cedar…

  • Learning how it feels to be homeless

    Cardboard Box City raises funds for Family Promise BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer With a recession driving many families into homelessness, a local nonprofit is helping to raise awareness of their plight by having volunteers spend the night sleeping in cardboard boxes. Students from the Red Bank Charter School help design a cardboard box house…

  • Controversy over rumored demolition of carriage house

    Boro officials say application has not been submitted BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer Rumson officials say they are unaware of plans to demolish the carriage house on the Auldwood Estate. ERIC SUCAR staff RUMSON — Borough officials said last week there is no basis to the widespread rumor that the Auldwood Estate’s carriage house is…