Category: HUB News

  • Wellness Center needs a home base

    Cancer support program has funding, seeks location BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Ilene Winters with her late mother, Cissie. Ilene Winters is not Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz.” She can’t just click her heels together three times to find a home. Winters must reach out to the community and hope…

  • It’s expensive to be poor in Monmouth County

    Demand rises at food pantries; housing costs, low minimum wage cited BY LAYLI WHYTE & CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writers The high cost of living in Monmouth County is forcing some residents to make hard choices, and in some cases, that means whether to pay living expenses or put food on the table, advocates for the…

  • Tobin moves up to council president

    BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer TINTON FALLS -The Borough Council has a new president. After a 4-0 vote, Councilman Brendan Tobin took over as council president and presided over his first council meeting. Tobin replaces Councilwoman Therese Cahill who stepped down from the post of council president at the last Borough…

  • Breathing new life into Little Silver concerts

    Resident aims to keep long-running concert series going BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer LITTLE SILVER – Under the starry, starry skies of the borough, the Starry, Starry Nights Concert Series began Friday. Peter Roskowinski, Maple Avenue, took over the planning and organization of the concert series this year, after discussions by…

  • Take ‘time’ to visit Blue Stove Antiques

    By Tony Senk Ike Burstein knows exactly what time it is pretty much every minute of the day. At the Fair Haven antique shop that he and his wife, Myra, have owned and run for 30 years, he’s virtually surrounded by clocks and watches, some of them dating back to the 18th century. For many…

  • Where to place cell tower looms large in Fair Haven

    Special Zoning Board meeting on Verizon application July 27 BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent BY LIZ SHEEHANCorrespondent FAIR HAVEN — After years of discussion and little action on the question of whether to place a cell tower in the borough, the last several weeks have brought the controversial issue sharply into focus. And on Saturday, from…

  • BCC course explores slavery in Monmouth

    Many escaped and fought with the British army in the Battle of Monmouth BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer Graham Russell Hodges MIDDLETOWN – Slavery in Monmouth County was once the norm, especially in the township, Freehold, Tinton Falls and Shrewsbury, where they worked as iron miners, farmers and domestics…

  • Fort panel will go for $315K in federal funds

    Lucky, Bauer to lead new base reuse group BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer FILEPHOTO Despite protests, the Pentagon decided to close Fort Monmouth. EATONTOWN – To apply for federal seed money to start up a business, the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority will need some whiteout and a typewriter. Somewhere…

  • Boro to create historic preservation commission

    Hearing Sept. 5 on ordinance creating seven-member body BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer SHREWSBURY – An ordinance establishing a historic preservation commission was introduced last week at the Borough Council meeting. Councilman Donald Burden, who is president of the Shrewsbury Historical Society, introduced ordinance No. 878 to establish the Shrewsbury Historic…