Category: HUB Opinion

  • Ready for bleak days ahead

    Red State/ Blue State • DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN Dear Greg: I’m writing this before Election Day, so I have no idea what the outcome will be, other than the delirious conga-line dance going on over at MSNBC, which has been under way for about a week now. (I knew how dedicated that network…

  • Resources available for individuals who stutter

    International Stuttering Awareness Day was Oct. 22, and it’s a great time to remind your readers that there are speechlanguage pathologists in your area who specialize in helping people who stutter. The nonprofit Stuttering Foundation provides a free list of local resources for your readers. Just call 800-992-9392, or visit our Web site, www.stutteringhelp.org. Click…

  • And now, we return to our regularly scheduled program

    Coda Coda • GREG BEAN   I figure there’ll be a lot of upsides to getting this never-ending election over with — and one of the best things will be getting my History Channel back. Longtime readers will remember the outrage I felt (an outrage shared by many) when Comcast took my History Channel away…

  • Outsider artist works from the inside

    Leonardo resident exhibits at the MAC BY LINDA DENICOLA Correspondent “Picked A Pumpkin” Middletown artist Tracey Ann Finley has passion and a personal vision that enable her to create original and intuitive artwork that come from her life experience and ideals. Without years of artist training and obsessing over style, she is beginning to mature…

  • IN THE ARTS

    Running Rabbit Family Theatre will present its newest production, “Cow and the Beanstalk,” at the Pollak Theatre at Monmouth University. Children’s classic “Jack and the Beanstalk” is given a fanciful turn in this version recommended for children age 2 and up and their families. There’s Jack, there’s an enormous beanstalk, there’s a surly giant and…

  • Art Society show in Little Silver

    Longing assemblage by Cecilia Swatton The Art Society of Monmouth County will exhibit members’ artwork at Little Silver Borough Hall through Dec. 19. This annual exhibit, the H&E Luhrs Show, is made possible through the generosity of the Luhrs Endowment Fund. Little Silver Borough Hall is located at 480 Prospect Ave. For directions and hours,…

  • Director returns to local scene with play at Jewish museum

    After a three-year hiatus from the Monmouth County arts community, David Sorin of Howell is making his directorial return with the production of Mark Harelik’s “The Immigrant” at the HayLoft Performing Arts Space in Freehold Township. The new space is inside the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County in the Mount’s Corner shopping center at…

  • Joe the plumber

    Red State/ Blue State • DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN Dear Greg: It’s hard to believe, old pal, but after a campaign that’s been going on for two years now, it finally took a plumber from Toledo to define the issues. After all the fundraising, and the speeches, and the flying around in planes with…

  • Olga Nicastro

    Mrs. Nicastro, 91, of Manalapan, died Oct. 15, 2008, in CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born to Eugene and Eugenia Zyrski on Oct. 23, 1916, in New York City, she lived there and in Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Manalapan in 1997. Prior to her retirement in 1989, Mrs. Nicastro was employed as the executive…