Category: HUB News

  • Finances continue to divide RB charter school

    Tumultuous meeting; parent asks dissenting trustees to resign BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Red B RED BANK — A heated discussion led to raised voices at the most recent Red Bank Charter School Board of Trustees meeting. With three board members continuing to express concern over the school’s finances, resentment expressed…

  • Gelfound’s successor to be named to S.B. council

    Council president, two others to run in June primary for three seats BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer SEA BRIGHT — Three Democrats, including the mother of the current Borough Council president, are seeking to fill the office vacated by former Councilman William Gelfound. During Tuesday night’s public meeting, the…

  • Residents concerned about impact of town homes

    Little Kalian official says adjoining 11 acres to be left undeveloped BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer LITTLE SILVER — Residents came out to the second Borough Council workshop in as many weeks to voice concerns about a proposed condominium development. Only a few residents attended a previous workshop meeting at the end of March to…

  • Holistic centers form partnership

    New Wellness Community gets seed money from Goldsmith Wellness Center BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Ilene Winters (l) and Tammy Zacks There will be a comprehensive wellness center for cancer survivors and their caretakers in the area by the end of the year, thanks to a collaboration between The Wellness Community…

  • Giving a voice to Earth’s creatures

    Monmouth U. professor relates eco-adventures of a 300 lb., cobalt blue fish BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer PHOTOS BY JIM REME, Monmouth University BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer PHOTOS BY JIM REME, Monmouth University There are many ways to spotlight the plight of endangered species. For Monmouth University professor John Morano, creating fictional stories that give…

  • Pay-to-play ordinance to carry weightier penalties

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer TINTON FALLS — Depending on which official you talk to, paying campaign contributions to play the game of securing a no-bid contract should cost you. That is the contention of borough Councilman Peter Maclearie. And he’s barely budged from that stance. “I just think…

  • Beck, O’Scanlon get GOP nod for Assembly

    12th Dist. candidates will make school funding an issue BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Two local council people have won the county GOP nomination to run for state assembly seats in the 12th District. Red Bank Councilwoman Jennifer Beck and Little Silver Councilman Declan O’Scanlon won the Monmouth County Republican Party…

  • Canoe building

    Clockwise from top left— Steven Cook, of Fair Haven, looks on as a volunteer cuts out a hull for a canoe built for the Red Bank Recreation Department on April 9 at Riverside Gardens Park in Red Bank. J.P. Polewczak, 16, of Keyport, and Rick VanHemmen, Fair Haven, apply adhesive to the bottom of a…

  • Residents: If taxes go up, we’ll have to go

    Curley: Cuts should eliminate jobs, water utility BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Residents concerned that they may be pushed out of town by rising taxes took their concerns to the Red Bank Borough Council at Monday’s public hearing on the 2005 budget. The budget, which is still being worked on by…