Category: HUB Opinion

By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer TINTON FALLS — After months of public debate, borough teachers are hoping to reach an agreement on a new contract prior to 2016. Cherrie Ronan, president of the Tinton Falls Education Association, said during the Nov. 16 board of education meeting that she’d like the two sides to come to…

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ERIC SUCAR

We at 180 Turning Lives Around Inc. applaud the recent enactment of the Sexual Assault Survivor Protection Act of 2015, which broadens the safety options for a greater number of survivors in New Jersey. Beginning in May 2016, survivors of this most heinous crime, which includes acts or attempted acts of sexual assault, sexual contact,…

By MICHAEL NUNES Staff Writer RED BANK – Ben Forest will not be seeking another term as president of the Red Bank Board of Education. At the Nov. 17 Board of Education meeting, Forest announced that he will step down after serving three years as the board of education’s president. “The last three years have…

STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR A flag hangs on the wall of names during the Veterans Day ceremony that was held at the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, Holmdel, Nov. 11.

This is in response to Ray Kalainikas’ letter, “Pledging Allegiance to Flag is Self-destructive.” Sorry Ray you feel that way. Think about it — if it weren’t for all the heroes who took the pledge of allegiance, acted patriotically and fought and died for “that flag,” we all might be living here under much different…

By JENNIFER ORTIZ Staff Writer Eric LeGrand in his playing days at Rutgers University. LeGrand was left paralyzed from the neck down as the result of an injury he sustained during a football game in 2010. RUTGERS ATHLETICS In October 2010, Rutgers University football player Eric LeGrand collided with Army’s Malcolm Brown during the fourth…

By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer With just a few actual contests, local elections were dominated by incumbents winning new terms on local government bodies. In Fair Haven, Republican council members Eric Jaeger and Robert Marchese withstood a challenge from Democrat Shervyn von Hoerl for one of the two seats up for election on the Borough…

SCOTT FRIEDMAN Tasty homemade apple pies tempt visitors attending the 50th Apple Festival sponsored by the Madison Township Historical Society, Old Bridge, on Nov. 8.