Category: HUB News

  • Humanists alive and well, meeting in R.B.

    Group espouses ethical philosophy based on naturalism BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer The Red Bank Humanists consider themselves a voice of reason in an age of sectarianism, partisanism, or just plain schism. According to Ron Steelman, president of the Red Bank Humanists, humanists are free thinkers who like to test things.…

  • BRAC commissioners to mull ‘brain drain’

    Advocates cite poll of fort workers who say they won BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer TOWSON, MD. — The Pentagon plan to shutter 33 military bases including New Jersey’s Fort Monmouth and reorganize hundreds of others is more about national security and not just about saving money, according to…

  • IJ mobilizes citizens to fight eminent domain

    Law firm launches nationwide Hands Off My Home campaign BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer A nonprofit law firm has begun a campaign to help homeowners like those in Long Branch protect their homes from being taken for private redevelopment projects. The Institute for Justice (IJ), Washington, D.C., began its $3 million…

  • 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…

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    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.

  • Boro moves ahead with $11.6M parking garage

    McKenna says no to referendum on 570-spot deck BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Red Bank’s pursuit of a parking garage, derailed by opposition from residents four years ago, appears to be back on track. At the Borough Council meeting Monday, Councilman Arthur Murphy made a presentation about the Parking Committee’s recommendations…