Category: HUB News

  • DEP: Fence across beach path is illegal

    Agency tells owner to apply for permit or take down fence BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer LAYLIWHYTE Surfers say they have used this path to the beach for 20 years. DEAL – A notice of violation has been issued to the owner of an Ocean Lane property for illegally constructing a…

  • Third Street near school to be closed in a.m., p.m.

    FAIR HAVEN — The state has given permission to the town to close Third Street near the borough school to through traffic during school days, Borough Administrator Julie Horner-Keiser told the Borough Council at its meeting Monday night. She said she had been told by the state that the street could be closed to traffic…

  • Long to seek re-election to S.B. council seat

    Once out of race, incumbent councilwoman to run with newcomer BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT – It’s official: Councilwoman Dina Long has thrown her hat into the ring. Long, an incumbent Democrat now in the last year of her first elected term, indicated in a July 18 interview that she has accepted the…

  • Crane gives residents preview of cell tower

    Zoning hearing on Verizon application will continue tonight BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent BY LIZ SHEEHANCorrespondent MIGUELJUAREZ staff A crane on the grounds of the Church of the Nativity, Fair Haven, shows how a cell tower of the same height would look. FAIR HAVEN – Reaction to the proposal to place a 133-foot cell tower on…

  • Zoning Board approves West Side Lofts project

    Lawsuit pending on charge of conflict of interest by board chair BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer View of West Side Lofts from the corner of Bridge Avenue and Edmund Wilson Plaza. RED BANK – The West Side Lofts project received final approval from the borough Zoning Board of Adjustment after testimony…

  • Borough budget stalled by wait for state aid

    T.F. spending plan calls for 16-cent increase in tax rate for 2006 BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer TINTON FALLS – The Borough Council voted to postpone adoption of the 2006 budget last week and carried it to the Aug. 1 meeting. The council was unable to adopt the 2006 municipal plan…

  • Surfers object to loss of beach path

    Boro says property is private and public access is nearby BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer LAYLIWHYTE Surfers say they have used this path to the beach for 20 years. DEAL – Despite surfers’ concerns about public access to the beach at the end of Ocean Lane, borough officials say the property…

  • Council approves air conditioning upgrade

    Boro will save $2K per year via energy-saving units BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer TINTON FALLS – Change order No. 17 for the new municipal center was approved last week. The resolution authorizes the borough to upgrade some of the condenser units for the air conditioning in the new building. The…

  • O’port acts to correct deficient procedures

    2005 audit uncovers actions not compliant with municipal regulations BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer OCEANPORT — The borough will undertake a corrective action plan after several improper municipal procedures were uncovered during the 2005 audit. At the July 17 borough workshop meeting, the council received a copy of a corrective action plan from borough Chief…