Category: HUB News
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Sending towns trim defeated MRHS budget by $50K
BY KENNY WALTER and ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writers TINTON FALLS — Two of the three municipalities that send students to the Monmouth Regional School District have recommended that cuts be made to the district’s defeated $25.6 million budget. The borough councils of both Tinton Falls and Eatontown approved resolutions recommending $50,000 in cuts to the…
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Musical artistry
Members of the Shrewsbury Borough School Concert Band perform at Pier Village in Long Branch on April 17. LAUREN CASSELBERRY
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Man arrested after leaving dog in car
BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer OCEANPORT — A Philadelphia man was arrested on animal cruelty charges on Sunday after leaving his dog unattended in a car as temperatures crept into the 90s. Victor “Buddy” Amato, chief humane law enforcement officer for the Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MCSPCA) in Eatontown,…
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Red Bank appoints new rec director
Boro resident Memone Crystian named to fill vacant post BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer An active volunteer, Memone Crystian unloads toys donated to Lunch Break, Red Bank, for the Adopt-a-Family program in December. RED BANK — The Borough Council appointed Memone Paden Crystian as director of Parks and Recreation during the April 26 meeting. According…
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Officers arrest 17 in narcotics raids
Authorities say operation was county-wide The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, along with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration – New Jersey Division, U.S. Marshal Service, Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office, Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, Ocean County Sheriff’s Department, and the Freehold Borough, Freehold Township, Howell, Matawan, Ocean Township and Toms River police departments, joined forces and investigated…
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in the service •••
Army Pvt. Justin A. Scannelli has graduated from One Station Unit Training (OSUT) at Fort Leonard Wood, Waynesville, Mo., which included basic military training and advanced individual training (AIT). During basic military training, the trainee received instruction in drill and ceremony, weapons qualification, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, and…
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‘Imagine’
Sheamus Harte, producer of The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, guides Red Bank Regional High School students through a rehearsal on April 29. The bus is a mobile musical recording and production studio whose mission is to encourage the creation, production and performing of music by young people. A team of RBR students in the…
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Photo
Jacqueline Lyons, a volunteer from Red Bank Catholic High School, works on a mural during Pink Bank Community Day, a community event hosted on May 2 by Riverview Medical Center and Red Bank RiverCenter, along with sponsors including Greater Media Newspapers, to raise awareness of breast cancer. More photos, page 3 and at gmnews.com. LAUREN…
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Monmouth budget adopted
County freeholders trim $3 million from tax levy increase The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders has adopted a $493 million budget for 2010, an increase of 1.21 percent over last year. The 4-1 vote came after the board adopted an amendment to reduce the proposed tax levy by $3 million. As a result of that…
