Category: HUB News

  • New boro Web site ready to go online

    User-friendly site will let residents report problems BY JENNA O’DONNELL Staff Writer TINTON FALLS – Borough residents will soon be able to use a new, customer service-orientedWeb site to register questions and concerns and track the status of the response. Anew boroughWeb site was presented to council during the May 6 meeting by Keith Lebeau…

  • Cell tower ordinance introduced in O’port

    BY JENNA O’DONNELL Staff Writer OCEANPORT – The Borough Council introduced a cell tower ordinance during its May 15 meeting that would allow the construction of communication towers on municipal property. The ordinance would amend the borough’s land use regulations to include a new section titled “Communications Towers.” “The whole purpose of the cell tower…

  • Committee studies access to waterfront

    Boro lacks public access point to the Navesink BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer RED BANK – A small number of borough residents discussed short-term goals for the Red Bank waterfront at the first public meeting of the borough’s Waterfront Access Review Committee meeting May 14. The Waterfront Access Review Committee was formed by Mayor Pasquale…

  • YMCA hosts Active Older Adult Day

    RED BANK – The Community YMCA will host national YMCA Active Older Adult Day on Wednesday, May 28, from noon to 2 p.m. The event is open to the public and will take place at the Y’s Family Health and Fitness Center, 166 Maple Ave., Red Bank. All adults age 50 and up are invited…

  • Sea Bright welcomes back Fireman’s Fair

    BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT – Borough residents and officials celebrated the return of the Fireman’s Fair after a more than 50- year hiatus. Sea Bright Mayor Maria Fernandes said the last borough Fireman’s Fair that occurred in recent memory was back in 1952. Although Fernandes said this past weekend’s fair wasn’t the…

  • Doctor realizes dream

    Veterinarian made plans in high school to open community pet hospital BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent While she was a student at Red Bank Regional High School, Meredith Weltner made a career decision to become a veterinarian and to one day open her own veterinary hospital. That decision became a reality when she recently opened Barnside…

  • Oceanic Bridge project put on hold by county

    Engineer: $58M replacement project to begin within 5 yrs. BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff The Oceanic Bridge connects Middletown to Rumson over the Navesink River. RUMSON – Repairing the deteriorating Oceanic Bridge is not in the long-term plans of the Monmouth County Department of Engineering. The 2,712-foot drawbridge that connects Rumson to…

  • Protesters ask Pallone to support Lyme bill

    Pallone awaiting panel’s recommendations on Lyme disease BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH – Protesters gathered outside Congressman Frank Pallone Jr.’s office on Broadway in Long Branch last week to call attention to a Lyme disease bill currently being considered by the Legislature. The protesters are demanding action on HR-721, which if passed would…

  • Photo

    Firefighters battle a blaze at the Sea Bright Laundromat on Ocean Avenue May 8 after a dryer malfunction set the clothes inside on fire, according to Sea Bright Police Chief William S. Moore. Firefighters from both Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach responded and the fire was put out quickly. A portion of Ocean Avenue was…