Category: HUB News

  • Righi steps up to top spot at RFH

    Promotion to superintendent leaves principal post open BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RUMSON — After five months of searching, Rumson-Fair Haven (RFH) Regional High School has found a new superintendent, and he was right under the board’s nose. High school Principal Dr. Peter Righi, who has been at the school since…

  • Borough Council acts to quell parking woes

    Residents, visitors complain about attitude of parking utility staff BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK — The Borough Council passed two resolutions at its Monday meeting aimed at making the downtown more welcoming to shoppers. Trisha Rumola, executive director of Red Bank RiverCenter, has been before the council on several…

  • Designs on winning

    Monica McKinney, a student at Red Bank Middle School, was one of the winners of the Monmouth County Fair Housing Calendar Art Contest honored at a luncheon April 10 at the Old Orchard Manor in Eatontown.

  • Pollock retires as president/CEO of Y

    Search for a successor under way; Ayres will serve as interim chief BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer

  • Club affirms vision that ‘every life has a purpose’

    Activist, health clinic, late-blooming grad among honorees BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Both Maxine L. Harris Daniels (above), Oakhurst section of Ocean Township, and Hortense West (below), Elberon section of Long Branch, received awards for their dedication to civil rights and community causes. TINTON FALLS —…

  • Poised for its place in the community

    Theater BY KATHY HALL Correspondent BY KATHY HALLCorrespondent CHRIS KELLY staff Above, soaring glass walls allow light to flood the lobby of the new Two River Theater. Left, founders Bob and Joan Rechnitz and artistic director Jonathan Fox stand at the entrance to the theater. Two River Theater Company [TRT] Executive Producer Robert Rechnitz has…

  • Borough shops for items needed in emergencies

    BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RUMSON — Ballistic shields and helmets are on the borough’s shopping list for emergency preparedness equipment for the Rumson Police Department. According to Borough Administrator Thomas Rogers, the Borough Council made an emergency appropriation last November, after a CD was found in Iraq that was reported…

  • Global issues are focus of annual convention

    Weeklong colloquy expected to draw more than 2,000 attendees BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — The diverse cultures from all areas of the world will be the topic of a weeklong convention at Monmouth University. The fourth annual Global Understanding Convention (GUC) will be held at the West…

  • Prison chaplain gets a ‘pardon’ after 20 years

    Pastor of Middletown Baptist church retires from prison ministry BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer The Rev. William C. Fuller, pastor at Union Missionary Baptist Church in Middletown, recently retired as chaplain for the Monmouth County Correctional Institution. RED BANK — After 20 years in prison, the Rev. William C. Fuller was…