Category: HUB News

  • Boro readies affordable housing ordinances

    New rules would help remedy noncompliance with COAH quotas BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer The Oceanport Borough Council has introduced two ordinances to bring the borough into compliance with state affordable housing requirements. The ordinances will “assist [the borough] in fulfilling a plan to complete our Mount Laurel requirement,” Councilman Gerald J. Briscione said at…

  • In the Arts

    “Scratching Surfaces,” an exhibit of color photographs by Alison Meyer, has opened at McKay Imaging Studio and Gallery. The show will run through Sept. 18. Meyer’s evocative photos play on color and light, shape and shadow. In an artists’ statement, Meyer said,” This work is about scratching surfaces in an attempt to uncover the deeper…

  • Photo

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Volunteer members of the Middletown United Methodist Church were at work on Aug. 10 building the wall of the house that Habitat for Humanity is constructing in Red Bank. It was 96 degrees that day. For story, see page 3.

  • ‘Beauty’ exhibit at Red Bank library

    “Portrait of Edith” by Estelle Knize “Discovering Beauty with Art and Travel,” an exhibit of paintings, photographs and sketches by New Jersey artists, is on exhibit at the Red Bank Public Library through Sept. 28. Each exhibiting artist has participated in Artscapes classes, workshops or art retreats presented by Lorraine Niemela and Denise Weiner. “We…

  • Clearwater to join suit to block development on Sandy Hook

    Environmental group will ask court to allow it to join other plaintiffs BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer Monmouth County Friends of Clearwater (MCFC) will join a suit to block the National Park Service from leasing historic buildings at Fort Hancock to a private developer. If successful, MCFC will file a complaint claiming the NPS discriminated…

  • Hammer, nails and heart build a home

    Local churches join forces on Habitat for Humanity project BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Norman Weber, Lincroft, and Bob Lightburn, Point Pleasant (above), members of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Lincroft, work on a wall of a Habitat for Humanity house in Red Bank on Aug. 10, while David Gibbons, Oakcrest,…

  • Assemblymen oppose R.B. spur for MOM line

    Line would come too close to too many homes, they tell NJT BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK — District 12 Assemblymen say alternate routes that would take the proposed Middlesex Ocean Monmouth rail line through Red Bank or Matawan should be dropped. According to a press release from the…

  • Sea Bright mayor: Snail mail moving slowly along

    Kalaka-Adams, Corodemus appeal to U.S. postmaster for separate ZIP code BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer Sea Bright SEA BRIGHT — The struggle to quicken the pace of mail coming over the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge to residents and businesses here rages on. With Sea Bright residents still receiving mortgage statements,…

  • Coalition and Tredwell owners $700K apart

    Preservation group hopes to keep 300-year-old property intact BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RUMSON — A group of preservationists is cobbling together financing to keep the historic Tredwell House intact. “We’ll have to put together an amazing coalition of angels, miracles and Green Acres money,” said Mary Lou Strong. “I’m praying.”…