Category: HUB News
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Red Bank pre-K gets national exposure
Morana touts success of early education program BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer Mayor Pasquale Menna proudly shared news at the Sept. 28 Red Bank Borough Council meeting that the school district’s early education program was featured in the national press. “Red Bank was exposed to tens of millions of people throughout the country and throughout…
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Great Adventure will host ‘Finest and Bravest Appreciation Days’
On Oct. 16-17, Six Flags Great Adventure theme park on Route 537 in Jackson will host “Finest and Bravest Appreciation Days” and will offer special discounted tickets to firefighters, police officers and their family and friends. This comes during Six Flag’s 18th annual Fright Fest, “The Northeast’s Largest Halloween Party.” Special discounted tickets for theme…
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Fire Prevention Expo
Clockwise from top: Bruce MacDonald demonstrates how to put out an oven fire during the Red Bank Volunteer Fire Department’s ninth annual Fire Prevention Expo, held at the White Street parking lot Oct. 11. Red Bank’s Peter and Kieran McTighe look into a portable decontamination structure. David Cassidy and Stu Jensen use the Jaws of…
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Keeping Monmouth green since 1977
MCF looks forward to passing ballot, preserving Keris Tree Farm in U.F. BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer What a long, strange trip it’s been. The acronym Walstib, created from those Grateful Dead song lyrics, is the name of the Middletown farm where Monmouth Conservation Foundation (MCF) held its 32nd annual dinner dance Sept. 26. Judith…
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T.F. revises grant bid for recreation complex
Lights added for practice field; tot lot dropped BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer TINTON FALLS — The borough has revised plans for an open space grant application to include lighting on football fields at the Liberty Park II recreation complex. Council chambers were filled several rows deep with cheerleaders and football players and their parents…
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T.F. council tired of staying up late
Changes aim to make meetings more efficient BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer TINTON FALLS — Citing rushed sessions and late nights, the Borough Council has decided to restructure its meetings. The council agreed at the Oct. 6 workshop meeting that the current format, which regularly runs past 10 p.m., is not working. Currently, the council…
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Reckless Steamy Nights presents Mike Barris & Friends
RED BANK — A salute to Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, Bessie Smith and other giants of prewar jazz and blues is on tap on Friday, Oct. 30, at a Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation-sponsored concert with Mike Barris & Friends. The latest installment of the monthly “Reckless Steamy Nights” concert series at the Woman’s…
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Church Women United to host World Community Day
FAIR HAVEN — Church Women United (CWU) of the Greater Red Bank Area will hold its annual World Community Day. The celebration’s theme is “Piecing Earth Together” based on the Creation story from the book of Genesis. The event will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at the Fisk Chapel A.M.E. Church, 38…
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Aaaah . . . early fall!
“One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.” W.E. Johns Iplan out my gardening chores like army maneuvers, inching up, day by day, to the final battle scene: fall cleanup. Predictably, our mature trees give us a bountiful harvest of leaves and most of them, in the early stages…
