Category: HUB News

  • Boro can go forward on projects

    Additional sewer capacity wins boro go-ahead from COAH BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer TINTON FALLS – Apparently, the state Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) is convinced that the borough has enough sewer capacity to support its affordable housing plan. On Oct. 11, a ban on new development in the southern end…

  • Hearing for activist set for next week

    Wall resident arrested Sept. 26 outside fort reuse meeting BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN- Environmental and peace activist Tom Mahedy is expected to appear before a municipal court judge at 9 a.m. next Thursday to face charges of disorderly conduct in relation to his actions at the Sept. 26 meeting…

  • Restaurateur pitches plans to Planning Board

    BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent BY LIZ SHEEHANCorrespondent Fair Haven FAIR HAVEN – After giving an informal presentation to the borough’s Planning Board on Oct. 11 on a plan to provide an area with seating outside his restaurant for the use of smokers, the owner of the Nauvoo Grill Club said he would not pursue a…

  • Shrewsbury incumbents running unopposed

    BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Siciliano SHREWSBURY – Mayor Emilia Siciliano is not ready to retire. She is running for a third term along with two incumbent council members, Donald Burden and Terel Cooperhouse. Siciliano is running for a four-year term and the councilmen are running for three-year terms on the…

  • Towns seek grant for flood warning system

    Nine municipalities seek $100K to equip five bridges BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Little Silver LITTLE SILVER – The borough will join with several other local communities to apply for a $100,000 grant from the National Weather Service (NWS) that would fund Automated Flood Warning Systems (AFWS) for five area bridges.…

  • Boro aims to be more pedestrian friendly

    Officials take walking tour as part of Walkable Community Workshop BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RON TINDALL During the Walkable Community Workshop held on Oct. 11, many borough stakeholders took a tour of downtown Red Bank, and the group walked across Riverside Avenue from Veterans Park without a crosswalk. The tour…

  • Fair Haven architect indicted for extortion

    BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer FAIR HAVEN – A borough man appeared in federal court last week on an indictment charging him with extortion and filing a false tax return. Avelino Sambade, 49, an architect in Bayonne, is being accused of accepting $100,000 in cash kickbacks from a contractor, according to…

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Monmouth University student Mia Schwerin, of Ocean Township, prepares a tombstone for restoration in the graveyard at Christ Church Episcopal, Shrewsbury, during the university’s fifth annual student community service day, “The Big Event,” on Oct. 14.

  • Freeholders criticized for high legal expenses

    BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer FREEHOLD – Despite recently adopted measures aimed at cutting legal expenses, several residents sounded off last week, complaining the county is still spending too much on lawyers. At last Thursday’s Monmouth County Freeholders meeting, members of the public criticized the freeholders for spending more…