Category: HUB News

  • Fund-raiser for cancer recovery group

    Seas It, a newly formed nonprofit organization focused on promoting cancer recovery through recreation, will kick off on Saturday with its first fund-raiser. The “Team Gov Invitational” will be held at the Allenhurst Beach Club beginning at 10:30 am. The day’s schedule will include kayak races, a run-swim-run relay, sand castle contest and picnic lunch.…

  • Local officials: BRAC hearing worth the trip

    Advocates agree adding fort to megabase a good compromise BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer Waking up at 4 a.m. to catch a chartered bus to Baltimore outside Eatontown’s Monmouth Mall in heavy rains on July 8 was worth losing a few Z’s, according to Oceanport Mayor Maria Gatta. Considering…

  • Historical map guides walking tour of Freehold

    Visitors can learn about the history, architecture and local lore of Freehold by following a new map that guides visitors on a walking tour of the downtown area. “Touring Historic Freehold” is a free, colorful map that includes 75 points of interest, all of which are pictured. The map was compiled by Monmouth Historical Commission…

  • Murals part of revitalization

    Arts Coalition forms mural art project as community endeavor BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer ASBURY PARK — Two muralists who share a vision of people coming to Asbury Park to view murals in the city are off to a good start. Their idea for an Asbury Park Mural Arts Project is…

  • In the Arts

    The Allenhurst Art and Music Festival will take place July 15 at Main Street Park in Asbury Park. The event will coincide with the Allenhurst Porch and Garden Walk and will begin after the walk ends at around 5 p.m. More than a dozen artists and four bands will participate in the festival, which will…

  • Whatever happened to Asbury Park?

    Book looks at causes for demise of BY KATHY HALL Correspondent BY KATHY HALLCorrespondent Historian and travel writer Helen-Chantal Pike loves a mystery, so she set out to solve “the case of the lost resort.” Pike grew up in Long Branch and remembered Asbury Park as a thriving community. “Monmouth County in the ’50s and…

  • Exhibit asks: What does peace look like?

    “Remembrance” by Donna Clapp An eight-person show at the Art Alliance of Monmouth County gallery in Red Bank explores the nature of what peace looks like through a variety of artistic media. Eight artists, Scott Buttfield, Elvir Caranay, Donna Clapp, Jeffrey Clapp, Teddy Ehmann, Glenn Murgacz, Donna Roettger and Peter Woronoff, have depicted their vision…

  • Advocates: Merge fort into planned megabase

    Gaffney leads charge to add fort to Dix, McGuire AFB, Lakehurst BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer Merging Fort Monmouth with a planned megabase less than 25 miles away could save the Pentagon millions of dollars and make more sense than moving its technical operations south to Aberdeen, Md., according to a contingent of base…

  • Photo

    CHRIS KELLY staff Evan Carhart, Rumson, and Stan Balmer, Long Branch, race from the beach into the surf for the line rescue race during the Belmar Lifeguard Tournament on July 6.