Category: HUB News
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Fort Monmouth hosts disaster response exercise
A disaster preparedness exercise was scheduled to take place at Fort Monmouth Thursday with more than 150 people representing 40 agencies from the local, county, state and federal levels. The Timely Alert VI Tabletop Exercise scenario was a continuation of the nationwide avian flu pandemic that began in Timely Alert V held here in October…
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Walk to beat cancer
Relay for Life set for June 8-9 at RBR LITTLE SILVER – Opening ceremonies for the borough Relay for Life will take place at the Red Bank Regional High School football and track field at 7 p.m. June 8. The event will run until 8 a.m. June 9 as part of the American Cancer Society’s…
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CHRIS KELLY staff Joe Zoppi, 13, plays bass guitar with the Red Bank Middle School Band during a Volunteer Recognition Celebration held at the middle school June 4. Muhammed Ors, 11, Red Bank, plays the saxophone in the middle school band, which was one of the school groups that performed during the event, billed as…
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ERIC SUCAR staff Jazz and blues musician T.J. Wheeler performs during the 21st Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival held in Marine Park beside the Navesink River in Red Bank June 1-3. More photos, page 40.
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Notes Around Town
Red Bank Elks Lodge 233 will host Flag Day, June 14, at Riverside Garden Park on West Front Street at 6 a.m. to honor our flag. For more information, call (732) 741-9771. ***** The Community YMCA is offering a series of water safety lessons June 18-23. Designed as a community outreach program for nonswimmers who…
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RBR uses text messaging for emergency notice
Accessing new technology in wake of college shootings BY LAYLI WHYTE Correspondent BY LAYLI WHYTECorrespondent In the wake of the recent shootings at Virginia Tech University that resulted in the deaths of more than 30 people, Red Bank Regional High School is taking steps to help ensure the safety of its students and staff. As…
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Little Silver introduces 2007 municipal budget
Spending plan includes $70K for school resource officer BY LAYLI WHYTE Correspondent BY LAYLI WHYTECorrespondent LITTLE SILVER – The 2007 municipal budget introduced this week calls for a tax rate increase of 2.1 cents per $100 of assessed property value. Councilman Declan O’Scanlon said that if it hadn’t been for the state mandated increase in…
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Visioning the future of Fort Monmouth
FMERPA public meetings to begin June 12 BY LINDA DENICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DENICOLAStaff Writer All the pieces of the puzzle that make up the planning for the closing of Fort Monmouth in 2011 are being tweaked and analyzed in the hope that they will fit into place before the Dec. 8 deadline set…
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Healing the Hook
Local Girl Scouts help restore coastal habitat on Sandy Hook Girl Scouts, leaders, parents, American Littoral Society staff and volunteers worked to fortify dunes on Sandy Hook with American beach grass recently. Girl Scouts from the Rumson-Fair Haven Service Sector joined by Scout leaders and parents, along with educators and naturalists from the American Littoral…
