Category: HUB News

  • 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.…

  • Council nixes more taxicab licenses

    Drivers protest that more cabs would hurt business BY SHARON LEFF Staff Writer RED BANK — The Borough Council at its Dec. 8 meeting unanimously voted against increasing the number of taxicab licenses in the borough, after local drivers filled the borough hall in opposition to the proposal. If the ordinance had passed, it would…

  • A picture is worth … an $85 traffic fine

    Camera system will detect cars running red lights BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer Next year, drivers who run a red light at Route 18 and Tices Lane in East Brunswick, Middlesex County, may find out later that they did not get away with it. That’s because cameras will soon be in place at the intersection,…

  • Hotaling’s boro service drawing to a close

    Councilwoman served as borough clerk for 20 yrs. BY SHARON LEFF Staff Writer Bill Dodge SHREWSBURY — After serving the borough for three decades, Councilwoman Marlene Hotaling will retire from municipal service at the end of the year. Hotaling, a Republican and a former borough clerk, chose not to run for re-election in November after…

  • Quaker Meetinghouse restoration gets $10K boost

    DAR donation funds work on third phase of project BY SHARON LEFF Staff Writer Interior of the Quaker Meetinghouse in Shrewsbury SHREWSBURY — A $10,000 donation will help continue the ongoing restoration of the Shrewsbury Quaker Meetinghouse located at the historic Four Corners. The Shrewsbury Towne-Monmouth Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)…

  • O’port revisits parking on lawns

    BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent OCEANPORT — Borough officials are looking into banning the parking of vehicles in the front yards of residences. At the Borough Council meeting on Dec. 4, Councilman Joseph I. Irace said the council’s Quality of Life Committee is concerned about residents parking cars on their lawns. According to Irace, who is…