Category: HUB News
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Memorial Day services
Red Bank Elks Lodge 233, along with other organizations, will participate in the Red Bank-sponsored Memorial Day Service at the veterans monument on Monmouth Street May 28 at 11 a.m. The Red Bank Children’s Cultural Center, a branch of The Community YMCA, will host “Flowers for Heroes” on Saturday to prepare the veterans monument for…
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Bond ordinance hearing at next council meeting
BY SARAH KLEPNER Staff Writer BY SARAH KLEPNERStaff Writer RED BANK – Three bond ordinances for infrastructure work in the borough are up for approval at next week. The work to be funded is for road improvements, water mains, fire hydrant valves and sewer pump stations, and various 2007 capital improvements by the water/sewer utility.…
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A playground of their own
Volunteers build play space for kids in transitional housing TINTON FALLS – Monmouth County children who are in transitional housing, many of whom have never been to a playground, now have one to call their own. On Wednesday, May 16, community volunteers and more than 200 employees of Home Depot, Six Flags Great Adventure and…
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CHRIS KELLY staff Now overgrown, this gun battery at Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook was key to defense of the coast. A tour of the battery was included in events at Coastal Defense Day, held May 20, to highlight the fort’s military history.
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Notes
This month is American Stroke Month and the American Stroke Association is a offering a free stroke awareness risk assessment and screening program developed to educate the public about stroke, its warning signs and risk factors and preventive steps to minimize a person’s risk of stroke. The screenings will be held at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital…
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Cultural center hosts ‘Flowers for Heroes’
Families invited to plant flower garden at war memorial May 26 Red Bank – History and horticulture will converge Saturday when The Children’s Cultural Center, a branch of The Community YMCA, hosts Flowers for Heroes, a beautification project to prepare the war memorial at 51 Monmouth St. for the annual Memorial Day services. Parents and…
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Budget approved, Tinton Falls opens new boro hall
BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer TINTON FALLS – With the passage of the municipal budget last week, the municipal piece of the tax-rate puzzle dropped into place. And the council said goodbye to their old meeting room. The council voted unanimously to hold taxes at last year’s rate by using a…
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JEFF GRANIT staff More than 200 volunteers from several organizations helped construct a playground for children living at a transitional housing facility in Tinton Falls May 16. See page 3.
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Historic house on state endangered list
Mayor will spearhead drive to preserve Fortune House BY SARAH KLEPNER Staff Writer BY SARAH KLEPNERStaff Writer T. Thomas Fortune House Preservation New Jersey has listed the T. Thomas Fortune House as endangered and has called on Red Bank officials to save the historic structure from development. The statewide preservation society has named the T.…
