Category: HUB News

  • In the Arts

    On Sunday, from 1-5 p.m., five bluegrass, country and folk bands will present a stage show and jam session at Embury Methodist Church, Church Street, Little Silver. Admission is $5 and $4 for members of the Bluegrass & Oldtime Music Association of New Jersey. For more information, call (732) 787-1891 or visit www.newjerseybluegrass.org. John Padovano,…

  • Boro Council authorizes vehicle, gun purchases

    BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK — The Borough Council authorized $190,242 worth of purchases at this week’s council meeting that include seven new vehicles, 45 new guns and new hand tools. The seven resolutions authorizing the purchases were approved, although the voting was not unanimous on all of them.…

  • Koch takes oath as borough reorganizes

    FAIR HAVEN –– At the borough reorganization meeting on the first day of the new year, Mayor Joe Szostak swore in new councilman Jerome Koch to a three-year council term. Koch was selected to run for council by the Republican Committee when Councilman Garrett Bess announced that he would not seek re-election last November. Koch…

  • Beck takes oath as assemblywoman

    Prefiled bills signal focus on ethics, property tax relief BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Jennifer Beck takes the oath of office. Property taxes and ethical government will be priorities for newly sworn-in Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck as she begins her two-year term this week. Beck was sworn in at noon Tuesday at…

  • Downtown Cafe expansion approved

    BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK — Parking calculation discrepancies did not stop the Borough Zoning Board of Adjustment from approving an application to expand the Downtown Cafe last week. The Nov. 5 hearing was the second before the board on an application by DanLou Properties, contract purchaser of the…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Suubi Momdesir, 5, Red Bank, holds up part of a parachute during Sport Shorts, a program for children ages 3-5 held at Red Bank Middle School on Saturday and sponsored by the Red Bank Parks and Recreation Department.

  • Kyrillos to introduce fort redevelopment bill

    Nine-member committee would be set up by law SUE MORGAN Staff Writer To ensure that New Jersey’s state government, not just the local and county jurisdictions, have a voice in what happens to Fort Monmouth’s land, state Sen. Joseph M. Kyrillos Jr. (R-13) has confirmed that he will introduce a bill to set up a…

  • Report: Higher bridge would hurt home values

    Appraisers agree with group opposed to taller Oceanic Bridge BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Friends of the Oceanic Bridge, which is seen here from the Middletown side, do not want the span replaced with a taller bridge. RUMSON — Replacement of the existing Oceanic Bridge with one nearly…

  • Oceanport to rename park in honor of Gatta

    Soccer fields would become Maria Gatta Community Park BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer OCEANPORT — The Borough Council has decided to pay tribute to the late Mayor Maria Gatta by naming a borough park in her memory. At the borough workshop meeting on Jan. 5, Mayor Lucille Chaump asked for council…