Category: HUB News

  • Former BOE member back; budget approved

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer TINTON FALLS — This year’s school board elections returned a former Board of Education member to the dais and put some money back in taxpayers’ wallets. After losing his bid for re-election to a fourth term on the board last year, Peter Karavites, a…

  • Poetry from the People seeks prose of the impoverished

    Arts group seeks funds to help the poor & disabled find self-expression BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Sharon Dutra Sharon Dutra has a vision. Like Eleanor Roosevelt, she believes that “the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” But Dutra’s dream is not for herself. It…

  • Greater Media Newspapers wins 29 NJPA awards for ’04

    Greater Media Newspapers has won 26 editorial, photography and advertising awards in the New Jersey Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for 2004. The group tally included 12 awards for outstanding photography, nine awards for classified advertising, one award for retail advertising, and four awards for reporting. Photographer Jeff Granit won three first-place awards in the…

  • Helipad is history

    Developer, hospital may pursue plan in future BY LAYLI WHITE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHITEStaff Writer GEORGEBOWDEN A helicopter used in a test for a proposed helipad on the Navesink. After an outcry from residents of the riverfront, Riverview Medical Center and Hovnanian Enterprises, both Red Bank, have withdrawn plans for a proposed shared-use helipad…

  • School officials get security training

    All schools in state to undergo audits of security procedures BY LAYLI WHITE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHITEStaff Writer School superintendents from the Greater Red Bank area will be training today at the Monmouth County Police Academy, Freehold Township, to prepare for a new school security initiative. Plans for increasing school security were announced in…

  • Photo

    CHRIS KELLY staff Peter Farwell, Lakewood, hands trash he collected from the Swimming River to Jerry Keelen, Tinton Falls, during Clean Ocean Action’s 20th annual Beach Sweeps on April 23. See story, page 3.

  • Shore beaches trashed with harmful litter

    2004 cleanup data show BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Volunteers collected and cataloged debris fouling the ocean and local waterways during Clean Ocean Action’s 20th annual Beach Sweeps held April 23 at more than 50 locations throughout the state. A week before thousands of volunteers turned out to…

  • Fair Haven voters approve school budget

    BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer FAIR HAVEN — Voters overwhelming approved the borough’s 2005 school budget last week. On April 19, 481 of the borough’s 3,435 registered voters voted for the $9.5 million school budget, which is a 5 percent increase from last year’s $462,093 budget. There were 215 votes against.…

  • State rules for dissident charter school trustees

    Commissioner finds Crapelli and Hughes can sit on board BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK –– Two disputed members of the Red Bank Charter School Board of Trustees will be back in their seats at the next board meeting as the result of a recent state ruling. In a decision…