Category: HUB News

  • Red Bank Library lists January programs

    RED BANK — Artists seeking inspiration, motivation, and a special time to devote to their work can now attend an informal gathering once a month at the Red Bank Public Library Eisner Memorial Library. The Artists Workshop will take place 7- 8:30 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month, starting Jan. 7, in the…

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    U.S. Marines accepted a donation for the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for Tots program from students in Ranney School’s music honor society. The students delivered more than 80 toys to the U.S. Marine Corps program office in Lincroft. As part of their first major community service project for the school year, members of Jr.…

  • First snow

    Top: Michael and Anthony DeVitto, Little Silver, have fun sledding down Wolf Hill in Oceanport on Dec. 20. Above: Patrice Habermann, West Long Branch, walks up the hill to enjoy sledding on the snow deposited by a weekend storm. PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff

  • N.J. bill seeks analysis of housing conversion

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer COLTS NECK — Legislation that would require a cost benefit analysis and security report to be conducted on the pending conversion of military housing to civilian housing at Naval Weapons Station Earle has been moved out of its state Assembly committee. The legislation is sponsored by Assembly members Declan O’Scanlon…

  • Santa Fun Run set for Dec. 19 at BCC

    Join the festivities and fun at the second annual Santa Fun Run and Community Day set for Dec. 19 at Brookdale Community College. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the college’s Warner Student Life Center, Navesink rooms I and II, on the Lincroft campus. The race will begin at noon.…

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    Amiri Baraka, poet, scholar, activist, professor and founder of the 1960’s Black Arts Movement, will kick off the 2nd Annual Kwanzaa Celebration at Frank Talk Art Bistro & Books in Red Bank, 1-3 p.m. on Dec. 27. Frank Talk, located at 163 Shrewsbury Ave, in Red Bank, is a storefront that supports artists, writers, musicians…

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    The first Shrewsbury Borough Tree Lighting drew a large crowd to the gazebo at the municipal complex on Sycamore Avenue on Dec. 6. Santa arrived via fire truck for the festivities, which included performances by the school band and chorus.

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Tom McNeill portrays Jacob Marley during a production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” adapted by David J. Meenan and presented at Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre on Dec. 12. CHRIS KELLY staff

  • Trains, crafts at Monmouth Museum

    MIDDLETOWN — The Monmouth Museum’s annual holiday exhibition explores a culinary theme this year with trees and trimmings decorated by local garden clubs and the Friends of the Museum. The museum’s annual Holiday Exhibit will run through Jan. 3. The annual display of O Scale model trains celebrates New Jersey and travels from the mountains…