Category: HUB News

  • Red Bank gets $2.4M for affordable housing

    State DCA grant will fund purchase of west side tract BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna announced this week that the state Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has approved funding for the borough’s affordable housing project on Cedar Street. At Monday’s meeting of the Borough Council, Menna…

  • Grant funds fellowships

    A $100,000 grant from Erickson Retirement Communities, manager and developer of Seabrook Village in Tinton Falls, to The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, has funded creation of the Erickson Johns Hopkins Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine and Leadership. Two new fellowship positions will include a one-year fellowship in clinical…

  • Fate of Sea Bright-Highlands Bridge pending DOT decision

    Historic Sites Council: DOT didn’t show rehab was not a viable option BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent BY LIZ SHEEHANCorrespondent Sea Bright-Highlands Bridge A decision on an application by the N.J. Department of Transportation (DOT) to replace the 74-year-old drawbridge that joins the boroughs of Highlands and Sea Bright is expected to be made later this…

  • Fort MLK observance Jan. 11

    Maj. Gen. (retired) Robert L. Nabors, former commanding general of the U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command and Fort Monmouth from 1998 to 2001, will be the keynote speaker at an observance honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Fort Monmouth Post Chapel Jan. 11 from 9:30-11 a.m. Nabors was the first African American to…

  • The Feast of Three Kings

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Ivan Vergara of Red Bank gets made up for his role as one of the three Magi for a celebration of the feast of Los Tres Reyes (The Three Kings) at St. Anthony’s Church in Red Bank Jan. 6.Above, a trio of dancers performs “Los Viejitos” (the little old men), a…

  • Charter school gets OK for five more years

    State renews charter, citing ‘good academic progress’ BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Red Bank Charter School RED BANK – Members of the Red Bank Charter School community will spend tonight celebrating the renewal of the school’s charter, which was officially announced by the state Department of Education this week. “We are…

  • W. Front St. project must provide more COAH units

    Variances for 27 units approved; site-plan approval now sought BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Architect’s rendering of Riverview Terrace. RED BANK – By agreeing to add an additional affordable residential unit and recreational space on the roof, a condominium development for West Front Street gained variance approval from the borough Zoning…

  • Police charge suspect in robbery of gas station

    RED BANK – A driver stopping for fuel helped thwart an armed robbery at the Raceway gas station on Riverside Avenue Dec. 29. According to Red Bank police, John J. Chiafullo, 46, Middletown, was arrested shortly after allegedly forcing the gas station attendant into the attendant’s booth at the station with a hammer and a…

  • Term over, Johnson tells council: Put politics aside

    Says council should do what’s best for Oceanport BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer OCEANPORT – After completing a three-year term as an Oceanport councilwoman, Democrat Linda Johnson did not seek re-election for another term. Elected in 2003 on the same ticket as the late Mayor Maria Gatta and current mayor Lucille…