Category: HUB News
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From Signal Corps to satellites, fort’s role documented
Fort Monmouth archives will follow base to Md. BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer An important chapter in Monmouth County history will come to an end in 2011 when the gates of Fort Monmouth close. Monmouth Park Grandstand blown down 1899 The Department of Defense’s Base Realignment and Closure Commission decided to close Fort Monmouth and…
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Sea Bright’s Dune’s Day will replenish beaches
Badge sales at a peak; boro rushes to ready shoreline for season opening BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT — Plans are in place for a borough-wide Dune’s Day volunteer effort to re-fence and replant the beach sand dunes at borough beaches. The event has been scheduled for Sunday, April 25, and will be…
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Bill on gov.’s desk would limit zoning changes
Builders group supports change; League of Municipalities opposes it BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer EATONTOWN — Mayor Gerald J. Tarantolo and the Eatontown Borough Council approved a resolution opposing S-82/A- 437, a bill that would eliminate the “time of decision rule,” at the council meeting on March 24. The council also sent a letter to…
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A new place to learn and grow
Tennile Wing, Red Bank, works at a computer station during the grand opening of the new Boys & Girls Club location in Red Bank on March 22. Story and photos page 3. CHRIS KELLY
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R.B. delivers bad news
DuPont warns of layoffs, service reductions BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer Red Bank Councilman Michael DuPont delivered bad news to residents at the March 22 Borough Council meeting, saying “the worst-case scenario” would now be a reality. Councilman Michael DuPont DuPont, who chairs the council’s Finance Committee, said layoffs, furloughs and reductions in services…
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Red Bank BOE votes down teachers’ contract
State aid cuts, charter school deplete district funding BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer The Red Bank Board of Education (BOE) voted against a contract that included a salary increase for the district’s 132 unionized employees during a meeting on March 23. Middle school music teacher Holcombe Hurd. KIMBERLY STEINBERG The 6-2 vote comes after more…
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Boys & Girls Club R.B. unit open and growing
Membership expected to grow to 400-plus BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer The Boys & Girls Clubs of Monmouth County (BGC) held the long-awaited grand opening of its Red Bank unit on March 22 and announced plans to expand programming for teens and add a summer program. Rosemary Rebimbas helps Ariel Morris, both Red Bank, with…
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On Campus
Kean University, Union, has named the following local students to its dean’s list for the fall semester: from Fair Haven, Melissa Osborne; from Little Silver, Kevin Jala; from Oceanport, Jillian Baczyk; from Red Bank, Jessica Jones and Kyle Maher; from Sea Bright, John Latacz; from Shrewsbury, Stephanie Tuazon; and from Tinton Falls, Erica Cutone, Ricardo…
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Audubon Society offers scholarships
The Monmouth County Audubon Society has announced that the organization will sponsor up to $3,000 in scholarships for the fall 2010 semester. “Thanks to the generosity of one former member,” said Harden Fowler, the organization’s conservation chairman and the creator of this program, “our organization will be sponsoring this annual scholarship for the foreseeable future.…
