Category: HUB News

  • Boro needs residents to step up, run for council

    Three seats will be up for election on May 8 BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Tinton Falls Council President Brendan Tobin announced at the Jan. 2 Borough Council meeting that it is time to register to run for a seat on the Borough Council in the May 8 election. He added…

  • Les Gertrude apartments to receive new elevators

    BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer LAYLI WHYTE Les Gertrude apartments RED BANK – The replacement of two deficient elevators in the Les Gertrude apartment building is expected to take up to 90 days per elevator, during which tenants will have to get by with limited elevator access. Dr. Marc Gelber, the…

  • Grant funds facility at Liberty Park

    $208K in open space funds will pay for multipurpose bldg. TINTON FALLS – The borough is one of several towns that will receive a substantial county Open Space Grant. The $208,000 grant will fund construction of a multipurpose recreation building on the 29-acre Liberty Park II on West Park Avenue. The Board of Chosen Freeholders…

  • Land swap proposed for cell tower site

    Borough offers five parcels for cell tower site at Fair Haven fields BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent BY LIZ SHEEHANCorrespondent Fair Haven FAIR HAVEN – The borough last week submitted a proposal to the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) seeking permission to swap five properties, including the site formerly used as a brush chipping site,…

  • In the Service

    Air Force Airman Anthony S. Melici has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. During training, he studied the Air Force mission, organization, and military customs and courtesies; performed drill and ceremony marches, and received physical training, rifle marksmanship, field training exercises, and special training in human relations. Additionally,…

  • State public advocate weighs in on the side of MTOTSA

    REGIONAL INTEREST BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Ronald K. Chen The state public advocate has asked the Appellate Court to allow a group of Long Branch residents to have their day in court to challenge the city’s use of eminent domain to condemn their oceanfront homes. Public Advocate Ronald K. Chen…

  • Family Friends program helps special needs kids

    The Epilepsy Foundation of New Jersey (EFNJ) will implement Family Friends, a service program established in 1984 by the National Council on the Aging (NCOA). The Family Friends program will supplement and expand the services of EFN’s former program known as Helping Hands. Much like the Helping Hands program, Family Friends provides services for children,…

  • Bomb threat results in arrest of SRHS students

    West Long Branch WEST LONG BRANCH – Two Oceanport youths are facing charges for a bomb threat at Shore Regional High School last week that resulted in an evacuation of the building. On Jan. 12, West Long Branch police arrested two 16-year-old students in connection with a bomb threat that was discovered just days earlier…

  • Report aims to make boro more walkable

    Workshop responses would benefit pedestrians BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Participants in the walkable communities workshop cross a busy street. Traffic calming on busier streets, improving visibility for drivers and pedestrians at intersections and widening sidewalks in some downtown areas of the borough are among the recommendations made in a recently…