Category: HUB News

  • Holiday harmony

    Above: Red Bank Middle School students perform during the Holiday Celebration Concert on Dec. 11. Left: Caeli Morris, Red Bank, sings with the school chorus during the concert held in the middle school auditorium. FRANK GALIPO

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    FRANK GALIPO Tanita Waddy, Red Bank, concentrates on her bowing technique during the Red Bank Middle School Holiday Celebration Concert on Dec. 11.

  • Suspect arrested in ATM theft attempt

    MIDDLETOWN — Police Officers John Soltysik and Adam Vendetti responded to an alarm from an automated teller machine at Investors Savings Bank on Route 35 in Middletown Dec. 11 at approximately 1:40 a.m. According to a press release from the police department, as the officers arrived they noticed a man walking from the machine. Police…

  • Council recycles plastic bag ban

    Ordinance now aims at recycling of bags BY SHARON LEFF Staff Writer Although an outright ban on plastic bags in Red Bank was not successful, the governing body may adopt a plastic bag recycling ordinance at the next council meeting. A first reading of the proposed ordinance was held, and after some editing suggestions, the…

  • NOTES

    Students from West Side Christian Academy in Red Bank work on Christmas arrangements at a wreath-making event that has become an annual tradition hosted by The Navesink Garden Club. When the students arrived, a row of tables held a bounty of many different cut greens, including boxwood, cedar, nandina, juniper, fruited holly and more. Large…

  • Community center location debated

    Neighbors say Head Start a better alternative BY SHARON LEFF Staff Writer staff The Count Basie Learning Center building The owners of a building on Drs. James Parker Boulevard don’t want a community center next door and are urging the Red Bank Borough Council to consider another use for the former Count Basie Learning Center.…

  • A touch of the past

    Clockwise from top: Bill Milius, of Toms River, guides Ivan as the trusty steed gives a group a carriage ride around downtown Red Bank on Dec. 13. The oldfashioned mode of transport makes its way through holiday traffic. The horse-drawn carriage, seen against the background of Broad Street’s vintage buildings, recalls an earlier era in…

  • Ranney’s ‘Day Without Art’ marks World AIDS Day

    Ranney seniors Margeaux D’Onofrio (l-r), of Toms River, and Terrin Kalian, of Rumson, and Ranney art teacher Ave Maria Walwark cover art in the Upper School library. Ranney School Middle and Upper School students stripped the school’s hallways and classrooms bare on Dec. 5, removing most artwork and covering larger works with plain, brown paper.…

  • Arts council grants $124K to local groups

    RED BANK — The Monmouth County Arts Council announced its Local Arts Program Grant awards for fiscal year 2009. The grants will result in over 1,000 highquality, low-cost arts events, including art exhibitions, concerts, dance, theater, film and festivals throughout Monmouth County for children and adults. Forty groups submitted grants requesting a total of $668,226.…