Category: HUB News
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Guadagno sets agenda as Monmouth County sheriff
BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Look out. There’s a new county sheriff in town. Kim Guadagno is ready to serve the people of Monmouth County as its first female sheriff. ERIC SUCAR staff Kim Guadagno takes the oath of office as Monmouth County’s new sheriff during the county’s reorganization ceremonies on Jan. 3 at the Monmouth…
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Grants fund land use & preservation initiatives
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation announces $4,160,000 in awards to 60 environmental organizations under its latest round of grant making. The foundation seeks to help environmental leaders improve livability as it relates to current patterns of land consumption and development in New Jersey. Funds primarily support efforts to preserve major ecosystems and open space; to…
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County looking to expand shared services agreements
In an effort to spur an expanded use of shared government services, theMonmouth County Board of Freeholders has awarded a contract to Government Strategy Group to bolster shared services among various government agencies in Monmouth County. The contract is fully funded by a $300,000 grant over a three-year period, which was awarded to the county…
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Middletown man is killed by train
BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer RED BANK – About a half hour before champagne corks popped and the Times Square ball dropped, a 20-year-old Middletown man was struck and killed by a train near the Red Bank station, according to a NJ Transit spokesman. North Jersey Coastline (NJCL) train number 3289 hit and killed Joseph…
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Teens text-message to raise money
Youths expected to raise $100K in 10 minutes at Feb. 28 fundraiser BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Parents should not get mad next month when their teens say they will “ttyl” or “talk to you later” in order to take part in a text-messaging frenzy. Text messaging, a popular mode of communication, will help raise…
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Shelter warns: Avoid ‘free to good home’ ads
BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer There is nothing Ursula Goetz loves more than a litter of cute, cuddly kittens. Ursula Goetz and a shelter cat So when stories come out about animal cruelty, she wonders why people don’t just put their pets up for adoption at a shelter as opposed to giving them away for…
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Bloopers
Hope you’ll excuse our ‘fowl’ language ADELE YOUNG We like to start the new year by looking back at the typographical and grammatical errors that almost made it, and some that actually did make it, into some of Greater Media Newspapers’ publications during the previous year. One of our most colorful characters in recent years…
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Congressmen secure funds for rail line study
The U.S. House of Representatives passed funding for the Monmouth, Ocean, Middlesex (MOM) passenger rail line onDec. 19, said Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Congressman Jim Saxton (R-NJ), who had worked throughout the year to have the money included in the 2008 federal budget. According to a press release from Smith and Saxton, theMOMAlternativesAnalysis will…
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‘Camp Woz’ alum to get red-carpet treatment
BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer Campers from Monmouth Cares prepare for their trip to Camp Woz last summer. RED BANK – Headlining at the Count Basie Theatre this winter are six-time Grammy winner Gladys Knight, hit makers Styx and a group of Monmouth County youths. The 10 youngmen star in a student-made documentary of their…
