Category: HUB Opinion

  • ‘Fiction to Fact’

    “Planet Mars” Space exploration is brought to life in a new display, “Fiction to Fact” in the Becker Children’s Wing at the MonmouthMuseum, Lincroft. More than 100 original space artifacts from the days of science fiction to the present are on loan from Kaller’s America Gallery through August 2010. The collection features toys, games, posters…

  • Marjorie Elaine Albers-Iannelli

    Mrs. Albers-Iannelli, 83, of Sea Girt, died Nov. 24, 2008, at Care One Center, Wall. She was a former model at John Robert Powers Modeling Agency, New York City, and then employed at Bell Laboratories Intelligence Unit during World War II. She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Ernest and Lorraine Gsell of Livingston,…

  • Past and present

    Asbury Park Boardwalk circa 1955 DORN’S CLASSIC IMAGES ‘Then and Now,” an exhibit of photographs from the Dorn’s Classic Images photography archive, is at the Monmouth Museum through Jan. 11. The museum has been exhibiting selected historical images from the Dorn’s Classic Images collection for the past two years. Kathy Dorn Severini is the curator…

  • Helping girls open the door of leadership

    Throughout the rest of November, you may see your local Girl Scouts at various places around town selling nuts and candy. You will probably pause and say to yourself, “Since when do the Girl Scouts sell nuts and candy? They’re the cookie people.” While it is true that we’re known for cookies, Girl Scouts are…

  • Public urged to speak out on homelessness

    People who have lost their homes in the current mortgage foreclosure crisis have become new faces among the homeless in New Jersey. With the national economy in a downward spiral, and unemployment rates rising, the ranks of homeless people are likely to increase, perhaps dramatically. For many years now thousands of people have been struggling…

  • Dr. Benedict LoCicero

    Dr. LoCicero, 87, formerly of Red Bank, died Nov. 26, 2008, at the Mountainside Hospital, Glen Ridge. He resided in Red Bank, and Newark, prior to relocating to Verona in 1952. He was an educator in the Verona School System for more than 30 years, retiring in 1981. He is survived by his wife, Evelyn…

  • Commander extends blessings during holidays

    Thanksgiving — a time to give thanks for all God’s bounty bestowed on us. Many of us have a great number of things to be thankful for — family, friends, food on our tables, clothing, gainful employment and an occasional vacation. Though we give thanks throughout the year, Thanksgiving Day is truly a time for…

  • Community asked for information on relative

    Iam looking for any descendants of Robert Luscombe, who was born in 1896 in New Jersey and died in 1971 in Red Bank, New Jersey. His parents were Robert Luscombe, born about 1850 in Devon, England, and Mary A., born about 1875 in New Jersey (her parents were Irish). In the 1900 census, they were…

  • Speak with teens about slowing down behind the wheel

    Your Turn Guest Column • Stephen Wallace Amid rising concerns about dangerous teen driving behaviors sits a common threat rarely considered outside of popular depictions in such movies as “Rebel Without a Cause,” “Grease,” and “The Fast and the Furious”: street racing. Perhaps surprisingly, teens themselves rank street racing as one of the most risky…