Category: HUB News

  • Boro drafting tree removal ordinance

    Measure aimed at ending practice of clear-cutting properties BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer FAIR HAVEN – Borough residents crowded into borough hall last week to support the creation of a tree removal ordinance aimed at preventing the clear-cutting of trees. Borough officials proposed the ordinance at the March 27 council meeting,…

  • Boro drafting tree removal ordinance

    Measure aimed at ending practice of clear-cutting properties BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer FAIR HAVEN – Borough residents crowded into borough hall last week to support the creation of a tree removal ordinance aimed at preventing the clear-cutting of trees. Borough officials proposed the ordinance at the March 27 council meeting,…

  • On Campus

    Elizabeth P. Cooper, Fair Haven, was recently named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at State University of New York New Paltz, where she is majoring in art and education. A 2005 graduate of Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School, Rumson, she was also accepted into the Honor Society at the university. Michael J.…

  • R.B. school budget calls for no cuts

    Board OKs $15.4M budget that would up taxes by 3.9 cents BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer The Red Bank Board of Education approved a 2006-07 school budget last week that calls for no cuts in teaching staff or programs at the borough’s public schools. The $15.4 million budget approved at the…

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    SCOTT PILLING staff Elizabeth Kelly, 5, and Caroline McManis, 4, hold hands as they march in the fourth annual Fair Haven Baseball Opening Day Parade on April 1.

  • Tarver: Children’s needs must be top priority

    Says schools must come ahead of other interests BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer David Tarver has some advice for Red Bank officials: Take the problems facing borough children out of the dark and into the public eye. “People knew there were problems for a long time,” said Tarver, president of the…

  • Monmouth U students ‘Take Back the Night’

    Students advised to support, protect, confide in each other BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer Photos by MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Plastic candles in hand, Monmouth University students walk through the tunnel under Cedar Avenue in West Long Branch during last Thursday’s “Take Back the Night” march at the university. WEST LONG BRANCH…

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    SCOTT PILLING staff Harry Ricker catches a ball on his first day as a Little Leaguer during opening day of Fair Haven Baseball on April 1.

  • New tree plan for boro

    BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK – The borough now has a five-year plan to increase the number of new trees as well as maintain the good health of the inventory of existing trees. “This plan is designed to demonstrate the manner in which the borough of Red Bank currently…