Category: HUB News

  • 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…

  • ‘End of an era’ in Holmdel

    Lucent to sell Bell Labs property, clear out next fall BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY Staff Lucent Technologies is in the process of selling its 472-acre Bell Labs property to Preferred Real Estate Investments Inc., a Pennsylvania redevelopment company. Lucent will move the 1,000 employees working at the 44-year-old…

  • Zoners hear scaled-down West Side Lofts project

    Hearing on site plan portion of application carried to April 20 BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK – The West Side Lofts project was back in front of the borough Zoning Board of Adjustment last week, this time with a site plan calling for lower density than originally proposed. Chris…

  • On Campus

    The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse (N.Y.) University, announced the following local students named to the dean’s list for the fall semester: Meghan Chrisner of Fair Haven, a senior majoring in public relations; Pamela Sidran of Ocean, a freshman majoring in advertising; and Jacqueline Cutrone of Tinton Falls, a sophomore majoring in…

  • Oceanport introduces $5.7M budget

    Proposed budget calls for 4.1-cent tax increase per $100 assessed value BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer OCEANPORT – The Oceanport Borough Council introduced a $5.7 million preliminary municipal budget at last week’s council meeting. The 2006 budget, which represents an increase of approximately $300,000 over last year’s $5.4 million municipal budget,…

  • Bank Street townhomes draw residents’ criticism

    Board members reject developer’s request for hardship variance BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK – The borough Planning Board continued hearing testimony this week on an application for a townhouse development at the end of Bank Street on the borough’s west side. By the time the meeting wrapped up on…