Category: HUB News

  • Spring blooms at the Guild of Creative Art

    “My Furry Bookworm” by Mary Carol Stunkel “Furry Faces,” a collection of 60 images of companion animals by Mary Carol Stunkel, will open April 1 at the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury. Stunkel’s favorite images are those where the camera engages the direct gaze of the pets. “I don’t look for just cute pets,…

  • Film society launches documentary series

    Red Bank’s Freedom Film Society (FFS) is launching a documentary film series, “We Want to Know.” The new monthly series will present documentary films that cover a wide range of social, political and cultural issues on the last Thursday of each month, beginning March 30. Screenings begin at 8 p.m. at The Shore Institute of…

  • Monmouth Reg’l budget calls for 5 percent increase

    BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Voters in the Monmouth Regional High School district will vote on a tax levy of $17,827,159 to support the 2006-07 spending plan, which totals $26.1 million. Last year, the tax levy was $17,335,926 to support a budget totaling $25.5 million. Interim Business Administrator Roseann Lozinski said…

  • Paint as a medium for relief sculpture

    A tube painting by Vincent DiMattio “Tube Paintings” by Vincent DiMattio, Loch Arbor, is on exhibit through April 14 at The Center for the Visual Arts (CVA) Gallery at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft. An opening reception will be held on Friday. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Parking is…

  • Dog owners irate over ban of pets on beach

    BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer SEA BRIGHT – Borough beaches are for the birds – not dogs, cats or any other pets. At least that is the ruling of federal and state government officials charged with protecting endangered species such as piping plovers and the amaranth, a native plant, both of…

  • Mayor: Tax hike due to prior raids on surplus

    Maclearie rips previous admin for ‘reckless financial decisions’ BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer Tinton Falls residents will see a 16-cent increase in the tax rate after three years of a seemingly stable financial picture, and that has the mayor unhappy. Mayor Peter Maclearie read from a prepared statement just before the 2006 budget proposal was…

  • Court to decide MTOTSA’s fate

    Judge: ‘Someone is going to win, someone is going to lose’ BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer (Left) Long Branch resident Albert Viviano, 93, is interviewed outside the Monmouth County Courthouse on March 24 before a hearing where attorneys sought dismissal of the city’s condemnation proceedings on his beachfront home and 19…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Vanessa Dobryzynski, 6, Tinton Falls, rests her head on the shoulder of her father, Greg Dobryzynski, during a father/daughter dance sponsored by the Tinton Falls Recreation Department and held at the Eatontown Sheraton on March 26.

  • Red Bank seeks grant for build-out study

    O’Reilly: Analysis would provide a planning tool BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer The Red Bank Borough Council wants to take a look ahead at how much and what type of development the future holds for the borough. On Monday, the council opted to approve an application for a $10,000 state grant…