Category: HUB News

  • Council introduces $17M budget plan

    Mayor: Work needed to pare 13-cent per $100 increase BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Red Bank’s proposed 2006 budget calls for an increase of about 13 cents per $100 of assessed property value, and borough officials agree there is work to be done to pare the increase. The budget was introduced…

  • MTOTSA hearing Friday

    LONG BRANCH – Residents faced with the loss of their homes through eminent domain will get their day in court on Friday. A hearing on a motion to dismiss the city’s condemnation complaints against property owners in the Beachfront North Phase II redevelopment zone is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. before Judge Lawrence Lawson…

  • 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…

  • Council puts off cable TV provider vote

    BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK – The Borough Council is expected to vote next Monday on a proposal that could provide residents with more choices among cable television providers. Representatives from Verizon gave a presentation at the council’s March 13 meeting concerning plans to expand into cable television in…

  • The pluck of the Irish

    At left: Marian Lawlor (middle) plays the tin whistle during a jam session at the Dublin House in Red Bank. At right: Lawlor teaches students to play the bodhran drum in an Irish music class offered as part of the Irish Heritage Series at Brookdale Community College. Teacher shares passion for Irish music in Irish…

  • Fashion, beauty, shopping at JLMC ‘Spring Market’

    The Junior League of Monmouth County (JLMC) will host two luncheons and a cocktail party at Gibbs Hall on the Suneagles Golf Course in Eatontown during a “Spring Market” on April 1 and 2. The Mother/Daughter Luncheon will feature Cynthia Weber Cleary, fashion director of InStyle Magazine, and Tracy Miller, regional education director of Clinique,…