Category: HUB News
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RiverCenter seeks boro’s holiday tree
RED BANK — The RiverCenter is looking for a 15- to 20-foot, full evergreen, preferably a blue spruce, to stand in the business district as the borough’s Christmas tree for the 2008. Each year the RiverCenter sends out a request to the public to donate a tree that will be lit at the Dublin House…
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Pallone urges park service to end Ft. Hancock lease
Wants state, local officials and nonprofits to create plan U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-6th District) called on the National Park Service (NPS) last week to terminate a lease agreement with Sandy Hook Partners (SHP) to redevelop historic buildings at Fort Hancock. Instead, Pallone wants the NPS to “bring state and local officials and nonprofit…
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Sea Bright incumbents face election challenge
BY SHARON LEFF Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT — Developing the beachfront property in town, improving the infrastructure of the downtown area and enhancing cell phone reception are among the priorities of candidates seeking election to two open seats on the Borough Council. The three-year term seats up for election are currently held by Democrats Susanna…
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RBPD promotes eight officers
BY SHARON LEFF Staff Writer SHARON LEFF The family of Red Bank Police Sgt. Eliot Ramos looks on as he is sworn in to the rank of lieutenant. He was one of eight officers promoted at a ceremony on Oct. 13. RED BANK – Three retirements in the borough police department earlier this year prompted…
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Hearings on asphalt plant continue
BY LAYLI WHYTE Correspondent TINTON FALLS — The Zoning Board of Adjustment continued to hear testimony last week on an application for an asphalt plant on Shafto Road, while borough officials and attorneys for wary neighbors continued to raise concerns about the impacts of the facility. The application by FLM Associates LLC to build an…
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New command sgt. major to take post
Command Sgt. Maj. Tyrone Johnson TINTON FALLS — Command Sgt. Maj. Tyrone Johnson will take his position as the new command sergeant major of the CECOM Life Cycle Management Command in an Assumption of Responsibility ceremony in front of Mallette Hall at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 31. A native of Charleston, S.C., Johnson entered the…
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Flu shot clinics Oct. 25, Nov. 16
Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey (VNACJ), Red Bank, will offer flu and pneumonia immunizations for individuals age 18 or older noon-2 p.m. Oct. 25 at Little Silver Family Pharmacy, 10 Church St., and 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 16 at First Presbyterian Church, 255 Harding Road, Red Bank. Cost is $25 for a flu shot…
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NOTES
Rabbi Yerachmiel Shapiro speaks at the shofar blowing contest held at Congregation Beth Shalom in Red Bank on Oct. 7. The event, which organizers hope to make an annual affair, raised awareness as Jews prepared for Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. The Little Silver Garden Club held a town garden contest,…
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Rowing program brings river & more to youths
Navesink River Rowing offers grants to students Jamar Barry rows with his teammates on the Navesink River. LITTLE SILVER — Navesink River Rowing (NRR) offered a grant this year to young people from Red Bank who would otherwise not experience the beauty of the river to learn the benefits of rowing. “The Navesink River is…
