Category: HUB News
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Council wants plan for open space funds
BY JENNA O’DONNELL Staff Writer TINTON FALLS — Borough Council members are asking the Open Space Committee to come up with a specific plan for open space acquisitions in light of the increase in the borough’s open space tax revenues. “When we talk about taxes, we want to know what our money is going toward,”…
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A fun night out
Top: Peter McGovern (l), of Fair Haven, gets pointed in the right direction for the dunk tank game at the annual National Night Out Against Crime held at the Fair Haven Youth Center on Aug. 5. Above: Kim Ambrose, of the Fair Haven First Aid Squad, explains the Auto Pulse machine to a group of…
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Plastic bag ordinance stalled in Red Bank
BY SHARON LEFF Staff Writer RED BANK — The introduction of an ordinance to ban the use of plastic bags has been in the works in the borough for some time and was still being debated at Monday night’s council meeting. Councilwoman Mary Grace Cangemi requested a clearer definition of what constitutes a recyclable bag…
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Info session on organic foods
MIDDLETOWN — A free in-store presentation on organic foods will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, at the Whole Foods market on Route 35 north, Chapel Hill Shopping Center in Middletown. “A Common Sense Approach to Eating Organic” is being sponsored by Real Mama Inc., a Middletown-based environmental and kids health nonprofit, which…
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Coastal evacuation bills pending legislative action
Task force calls for creation of coastal operations team BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer An evacuation sign along a local roadway. A bill awaiting action in the state Legislature would establish a coastal operations team to coordinate evacuation plans in Monmouth and other New Jersey coastal counties. The bill is one of 10 proposed…
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S.B. to host skimboarding weekend
A competitor in the 2007 skimboarding meet SEA BRIGHT — The borough’s beachfront will be the site of three skimboarding events on Sept. 6 and 7. On Saturday, Sept. 6, the Recreation Committee will host a Skim4Skate fundraising event at Donovan’s from noon to 5 p.m. Top skimboarding pros from across the country will be…
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Kortney’s Challenge to be held Sept. 7
Kortney Rose Gillette OCEANPORT — The Kortney Rose Foundation (KRF) is hosting the third annual Kortney’s Challenge Two Mile FUN Walk/Run on Sunday, Sept. 7, at Monmouth Park racetrack. Kristen Gillette, Kortney’s mother and the KRF president, said she is looking forward to another successful event in her daughter’s memory. “We are very excited that…
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Former Red Bank auto shop owner sentenced for fraud
TRENTON — The owner of a defunct Red Bank auto body shop was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison Aug. 4 for his leadership role of a million-dollar automobile insurance fraud, bank fraud and money laundering scheme, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. U.S. District Judge Joel A. Pisano also ordered John V. Cotona,…
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ERIC SUCAR staff James Duffney, of Rumson (center), along with the other soldier re-enactors, falls in line at the annual Civil War encampment, with the 61st New York Volunteer Infanry Regiment, held at the Havens Homestead Museum in Brick on Aug. 9.
