Category: HUB Opinion

  • Bridge replacement will damage community

    Iam amazed and appalled that the state of New Jersey would seemingly lie to a federal judge in order to avoid an injunction. I was present at that hearing in February and the judge clearly stated the NJDOT would not begin to touch the drawbridge until spring 2009. Here we are only a few weeks…

  • Lorraine Marie Stanley

    Miss Stanley, 77, of Red Bank, died March 11, 2008, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was a retired assistant director of nursing at St. Vincent’s Hospital, NewYork City. She is survived by five cousins, Edward, Patricia, Richard, Robert and Virginia Stanley. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. James Roman Catholic…

  • IN THE ARTS

    Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge Ooh-wee, baby! Travel back in time Friday,March 14, during “An Evening of Doo Wop and Rock ‘n’ Roll” at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank. The concert will feature blockbuster groups Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge (“Sixteen Candles”), Kenny Vance and the Planotones, Jay Siegel and the…

  • Counselors help students cope with loss of classmate

    Monmouth Regl. H.S. student killed in car crash March 9 BY JENNA O’DONNELL Staff Writer TINTON FALLS – Monmouth Regional High School counselors have set up a safe room where they are helping students cope with the aftermath of a tragic car accident that took the life of one of their classmates Sunday night. Eighteen-year-old…

  • The Boss at the Basie: Let the bidding begin

    So you had a dream that you got into a bidding war for a pair of tickets to a Bruce Springsteen concert. The guy you were bidding against kept upping the ante, but you weren’t about to be outdone and you finally trumped him and snared the elusive tickets. What if you weren’t dreaming, would…

  • Stop ‘runaway train’ of bad bridge design

    Guest Column JAMES FITZMAURICE Iam very concerned that unless the citizens of the local Shore area wake up, we are going to have a monumental monstrosity foisted upon us. While I applaud the actions of groups that would like to save the Highlands Bridge, I believe that their mission, even if effective at stalling the…

  • Artists look at impacts of sprawl

    The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts (SICA) in Long Branch is hosting an exhibition titled “Sprawling” through April 4. “Oil on Newtown Creek” by Susanna Heller The show highlights artists whose work investigates the changes that occur on the social, political, economic, ecological and geographic levels when a populated area stretches, swells, spreads and…

  • Coda

    Singing ‘Danny Boy’ will ruin your St. Paddy’s Day GREG BEAN Growing up in a solidly Scots-Irish family meant St. Paddy’s Day was pretty special. We never celebrated Robbie Burns Day on Jan. 25 to honor our Scots side, because that involves haggis if you’re a traditionalist. And let me tell you, no thinking individual…

  • Focus on world peace as a form of spring ritual

    Sometimes there are simple and obvious solutions to complex problems, and sometimes when a thought is put “out there,” it gains momentum and takes hold. The Old City of Jerusalem should be a world heritage site, available to all, owned by no one. Some of the holiest places on the planet make up this complex,…