Category: HUB News

  • Police seek 2 in armed robbery

    RED BANK – Borough police are seeking two men who allegedly robbed a jewelry store on Shrewsbury Avenue at gunpoint on July 18. Initially, the suspects entered Pequeno Diamente and browsed around at the jewelry, then left the store and returned a few minutes later, according to a press release from the Red Bank Police…

  • On the brink of the sixth extinction

    Going organic could help threatened bees and butterflies BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff The fruits of Manuela McCusker’s labors surround her in the garden behind her Roosevelt home. The fate of many major food crops hangs in the balance of what biologists are calling the “sixth…

  • Happy potters

    PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Top to bottom: Briana Clayton, 12, of Rumson, rolls out a slab of clay during a pottery class at the Children’s Cultural Center in Red Bank on Friday. Carly Green, 10, of Fair Haven, works on a coil pot. Sophie Litwin (r), 12, of Rumson, and Paulina Braka, 10, of…

  • Monmouth County Fair returns for 33rd year

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – The Monmouth County Fair has returned to the East Freehold Park showgrounds on Kozloski Road between Business Route 33 and Route 537. The county fair remains a tradition, with this year marking its 33rd year of providing family fun. With the Monmouth County 4-H Association remaining a key part of the fair,…

  • Muggles celebrate Potter countdown at Grand Hallows Ball

    Several hundred fans at Borders for midnight book release BY LAYLI WHYTE Correspondent BY LAYLI WHYTECorrespondent The Mayer family of Tinton Falls (l-r) Bryan, Andy, Lisa, Lauren and Alex wear their wizard finery to the Grand Hallows Ball at Borders July 20. Below: Mary Freehill checks her crystal ball as the midnight release of the…

  • Ex-FBI analyst sentenced for espionage

    A former Marine and former FBI intelligence analyst at Fort Monmouth was sentenced July 18 to 10 years in prison for espionage and other charges. U.S. District Judge William H. Walls sentenced Leandro Aragoncillo, 48, for his guilty pleas to espionage charges Aragoncillo pleaded guilty May 4, 2006, to taking and transferring classified information to…

  • Mail call: Westboro post office reopens

    PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff The Westboro post office, on the west side of Red Bank, reopened July 17 after two years of renovations. Above, Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna attends the reopening ceremony July 20, accompanied by senior postal operation manager Glenn Mahoney. Below, post office station manager Bill Tighe and clerk Eileen Kapusta…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff Phyllis Rudrow, Red Bank, paid a visit to the new Westboro Station post office after it reopened this week. Post office manager Bill Tighe was on duty.

  • Mosquito commission offers tick identification and testing service

    As part of Monmouth County’s Tick-borne Diseases Program, residents who find a tick can bring it to the Monmouth County Mosquito Commis-sion’s (MCMC) office in Tinton Falls to have it identified and analyzed for the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. “The tick identification and testing service is meant to serve as a first alert for…