Category: HUB News
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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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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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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…
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L.S. businesses organize book fair
The Little Silver Business and Professional Association (LSBPA) will host a “Share Your Story” book fair on Saturday, Oct. 17, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the firehouse on Prospect Avenue. The fundraising effort is being planned to assist underwriting the cost of decorative banners the association has designed to adorn the town’s lampposts…
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Park system programs for November
The Monmouth County Park System, will present “Sit Thee Down, Chairs That FurnishedWalnford” an exhibit Nov. 1-30 at Historic Walnford, Walnford Road, Upper Freehold. The exhibit will display a variety of chairs, both plain and fancy, that once furnished the Walnford estate throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The park system will release its winter…
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NOTESAround Town
German School of Monmouth County Managing Director Dorothea Drew (l-r), of Middletown, lifts a stein with Red Bank Mayor Pasquale “Pat” Menna and board of trustees President Heiko Roessle, of South Amboy, at the school’s Oktoberfest fundraiser held at the Red Bank Elks Lodge. More than 300 attended Oktoberfest and raised $4,000 for the educational…
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Charter school launches costume exchange
RED BANK — Red Bank Charter School, a K-8 public school, is holding a costume exchange program to raise money for its educational programs and to provide parents throughout the community with a low-cost costume resource for the Halloween season. The school is collecting donated gently worn Halloween costumes now and will be offering them…
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Good news for Sea Bright: School merger won’t hike taxes
State will reassess funding formula for regional district BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT — Mayor Maria Fernandes announced at the Borough Council meeting on Oct. 2 that the neutral tax impact from the newly created Sea Bright- Oceanport K-8 school district would remain in place indefinitely. In a Sept. 16 letter from Commissioner…
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Bricks back on council agenda in Fair Haven
BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent FAIR HAVEN — The Borough Council is once again talking about bricks. This time the question is who will pay for the upkeep of brick aprons placed on the end of driveways on Fair Haven Road and Clay Street while the roads were being upgraded. Last summer the council decided that…
