Category: HUB News

  • U.S. opposes Clearwater motion to join suit

    Gov’t says plaintiffs in lawsuit against NPS lack standing to sue BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer The U.S. Attorney’s Office has moved to block Monmouth County Friends of Clearwater from joining a suit against the National Park Service. In a motion filed Sept. 13 to dismiss Clearwater’s bid to become a plaintiff in the suit…

  • Tredwell House links settlers, modern suburbia

    Occupants have included relatives of Morris family, President Lincoln BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer The 300-year-old Tredwell House, Rumson, was home to early settlers and is dated as being built between 1710 and 1711. RUMSON — Although the future of the Tredwell House remains uncertain, there is no doubt about the…

  • Boro acts to get in step with COAH rules

    Adds sections on affordable housing to zoning ordinances BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer OCEANPORT — At its Sept. 1 meeting, the Borough Council adopted ordinances aimed at bringing the borough into compliance with affordable housing regulations set by the state Council on Affordable Housing (COAH). Two additions to zoning ordinances were…

  • Poetry festival heralds: Walt Whitman wrote here

    Poet BY KATHY HALL Correspondent BY KATHY HALLCorrespondent According to scholars, Whitman’s favorite photo of himself with a paper butterfly on his finger was taken in Ocean Grove. Walt Whitman may have spent only three weeks in Ocean Grove, but for Kevin Chambers there are enough connections to justify naming a poetry festival in his…

  • In the Arts

    Friends of Photography will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Monmouth Beach Cultural Center at 128 Ocean Ave. Topic of the meeting, the last of the year, will be a photo taken during September. The Freedom Film Society and 2 Senza restaurant will host an evening of international short films and music to benefit…

  • New Planning Board hears CECOM plans

    151 age-restricted homes could replace abandoned building BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer TINTON FALLS — The borough’s Planning Board has a whole new look and so could the site of an abandoned federal building if a developer of age-restricted housing has his way. The PRC Group of West Long Branch now…

  • Wipeout

    SCOTT PILLING staff Conor Willen, 14, competes in the second annual skimboard competition, held Sept. 17 in Sea Bright.

  • SPCA poised to help canine hurricane victims

    Dogs will receive medical care, be put up for adoption BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Goldie Palama and Doug Ryan fled the devastation of Hurricane Katrina with their dogs Heavy D and Turkey Dog, who are being housed temporarily at the Monmouth County SPCA shelter in Eatontown. EATONTOWN…

  • S.B.Village residents want wall repaired

    Residents pushing Tradewinds developer to fix crumbling wall BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer SEA BRIGHT — First, it was the sound of the walls of the once-popular Tradewinds nightclub and swimming complex being torn down that disturbed residents of the adjacent Sea Bright Village neighborhood. Next, it was the drilling, hammering,…