Category: HUB News

  • Middletown Arts Center announces fall season

    MIDDLETOWN — With the new slogan “You’ll find it all at the Middletown Arts Center,” the nonprofit, award-winning facility has announced a 21-event fall schedule that includes art exhibits, a concert series, dance, comedy, drama, poetry, magic, themed socials, even a masquerade ball. The diverse schedule begins on Aug. 30 and is a complement to…

  • Boro will put SRHS funding formula on ballot

    Voter input will be used to advocate for legislative change BY SHARON LEFF Staff Writer S ea Bright will ask residents to weigh in on revising the funding formula for Shore Regional High School in a nonbinding referendum on the November general election ballot. Councilwoman Dina Long, who chairs the Sea Bright Borough Council’s School…

  • Steel Mill keeps Asbury sounds of the past alive

    Former E Street drummer Vini Lopez finds success playing early Springsteen BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer JEFF ALLEN The members of Steel Mill are (l-r) Vini Lopez, John Galella, Tony Amato and Ed Piersanti. The band plays songs that were written by Bruce Springsteen when he was a member of Steel Mill in the early…

  • The buzz about honeybees

    Threatened state insect necessary for ecosystem and agriculture BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Beekeeper Angelo Trapani, who operates Trapper’s Honey in Millstone with his wife Anna, checks to see if his honeybees have made any progress on two new honey frames. They thrived with the dinosaurs, ancient Egyptians and even…

  • Fair games

    Sadie Ahimovic (l-r), of Fair Haven, scrambles through the rolling barrel of the “Coo-Koo Haus,” one of the attractions at the Fair Haven Fireman’s Fair on Aug. 22. Gavin Kiley, of Fair Haven, rides one of the colorful mounts on the merry-go-round at the fair, which is sponsored by Fair Haven Volunteer Fire Company No.…

  • New boro ordinance not in the bag … yet

    Council delays vote to consider input and suggestions BY SHARON LEFF Staff Writer RED BANK — An ordinance that would ban certain types of plastic bags in the borough was carried until September due to “substantial” changes, Mayor Pasquale Menna said at Monday’s council meeting. The proposed ordinance, which would ban the use of plastic…

  • Performing Arts Series offers diverse season at Pollak Theatre

    Rock opera, bluegrass, comedy and children’s classics are just a few of the many highlights of the 2008-2009 Performing Arts Series at Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre. Tickets are on sale now for such worldrenowned acts as 12-string guitar master Roger McGuinn with John Sebastian; Ireland’s cultural emissaries to the world, Cherish the Ladies; stars of…

  • Slocums of New Jersey plan reunion

    The Slocums of New Jersey, members of a family tree whose roots date back to the 1600s, have planned their annual family reunion for Sunday, Oct. 5, at the Ocean Place Resort, Long Branch. All interested parties are welcome to attend and are invited to bring their records and meet other family members with whom…

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    Robin Wishnie, of Bridgewater, assumes a salamba sirsasana pose, or yoga headstand, during a session of Yoga on the Beach in Sea Bright on Aug. 16. SCOTT FRIEDMAN