Category: HUB News

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    What better way to spend a sunny day off from school than perfecting ollies, nollies and heelflips, which is exactly what this skater is doing Sept. 13 at a local skateboard park.

  • NOTES AROUND TOWN

    Learn how to recognize the hawks that fly overhead during their annual fall migration. The Monmouth County Park System is sponsoring a series of day trips to local hawk-watching hot spots. Bring binoculars and pack a lunch. Each of the day trips begin at 8 a.m. in the parking lot of Huber Woods Park Environmental…

  • Hook advocates will appeal court rejection

    District Court says developer’s lease stands BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent Save Sandy Hook will appeal a U.S. District Court decision that rejected the group’s complaint that a developer’s lease for historic buildings at Fort Hancock is “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion or not otherwise in accordance with law.” The grassroots organization formed to block…

  • Police officer forfeits position after conviction

    On Aug. 31, the Judge Ira E. Kreizman ordered Dean A. Hashimi, a 12-year veteran of the Jersey City Police Department, to forfeit his employment as a condition of a sentence imposed for a 2006 attempted insurance scam and false report to police. Kreizman imposed a two-year term of probation upon Hashimi, 38, of Red…

  • DOT seeking bids for Highlands bridge

    Demolition of drawbridge could begin in early 2008 BY AMANDA BELING Staff Writer As early as January, the Highlands bridge is coming down, according to the N.J. Department of Transportation (DOT). DOT spokeswoman Erin Phallon said last week the official newspaper advertisement for bids went out Sept. 13. “They [the DOT] will start accepting bids…

  • Panel recommends ways to improve boro gov’t.

    Volunteers will continue review for additional two-month period BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer OCEANPORT – A volunteer panel has recommended creating a borough manager’s position to improve the efficiency of borough government, but said the council may not have to hire additional personnel to fill the role. A three-member, volunteer “blue ribbon” panel charged with…

  • Grant helps to maintain public records, archives

    FREEHOLD – In June, the New Jersey State Records Committee voted to award $25,000 to Freehold Borough for strategic, county-wide improvements in public archives and records management. The grant was authorized through the state’s pioneering Public Archives and Records Infrastructure Support (PARIS) program. The PARIS funded initiative in Freehold Borough is a municipal-wide inventorying, purging…

  • How to spend a day off from school …

    PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff The warm and sunny weather on Sept. 13 offered youngsters a plethora of ways to spend a day off from school. Some headed to the beach for what were surely the last days of frolicking in the surf, while others gravitated to SkatePlex, the oceanfront skateboard park at Seven Presidents…

  • Beck, O’Scanlon hit campaign trail in R.B.

    Challenge Dems on fiscal responsibility, ethics, school funding Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck (R-12) (l-r), and Assembly candidates Caroline Casagrande and Declan O’Scanlon make a campaign stop at Riverside Gardens Park in Red Bank on Sept. 17. RED BANK – Republican state Senate candidate Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck (R-12) and state Assembly candidates Declan O’Scanlon and Caroline Casagrande…