Category: HUB Opinion

  • Coda

    ‘Tis the stressful season for us ‘guerrilla shoppers’ GREG BEAN There was a time not long ago when my wife said one of the most surprising things she’s said in over 25 years of marriage. We’d taken a Sunday drive down to Cape May, and while I was content to just drive around, gawking at…

  • My Take

    Therapy for body and spirit LINDA DENICOLA There is an alternate world taking place most weekday mornings within the walls of the YMCA in Red Bank. It is a warm moist place that smells strongly of chlorine, and is filled with older folks who are having fun exercising, some in the warm therapeutic pool and…

  • Red State/Blue State

    Great thoughts from celebs on political endorsements DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson – a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist – and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers. Let us know what you think. Dear Greg: The Red States are abuzz…

  • Joan Louise Hansen Vignola

    Mrs. Vignola, 68, of Port Richey, Fla., died Dec. 13, 2007, at her son’s residence in Hamilton. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she resided in Middletown prior to relocating to Port Richey six years ago. She was a nursing assistant at Bayshore Hospital, Holmdel, for 15 years. She was a member of New Port Richey (Fla.)…

  • Seventeen cents a bag? Preposterous logic!

    “We’re paying about 17 cents per bag that Red Bank disposes [of] in the landfill. So, we are going to be saving money,” said Red Bank Councilman Michael DuPont in the Dec. 6 issue of The Hub. Anytime one hears a politician say “We are going to save money,” beware. I was aghast at the…

  • Helen Blyskun

    Mrs. Blyskun, 82, of Red Bank, died Dec. 4, 2007, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was born in the Ukraine. She was predeceased by her husband, Michael in 2000. She is survived by a son, George; two daughters, Sharon and Helena; and two grandchildren. Interment was at St. Vladimir’s Cemetery, Jackson. Arrangements were…

  • Education shouldn’t be funded by ZIP codes

    Gov. Jon Corzine has a plan to revamp education funding. It appears to be just more smoke and mirrors. The sales pitch is “the current model leaves too many children out of luck simply because they live in the wrong ZIP code.” Pithy, but meaningless as far as the overburdened property taxpayer is concerned. Two…

  • Melody T. Bastedo

    Miss Bastedo, 62, of Leesburg, N.C., died Dec.7, 2007, at home. She was born in Red Bank. She is survived by a son, Wayne Kozatiwitz of Matawan; a daughter, Denise “Cookie” Keenan of Howell; two brothers, Bill and Bob Bastedo; five sisters, Ruth Paltridge, Jane Rosato, Nevada Varga, Candy Caramazza and Sharon Glovin; and three…

  • Designate a driver in order to keep holiday season safe

    The holiday season between Thanksgiving and New Year’s is one of the deadliest and most dangerous times of the year due to an increase in impaired driving. In fact, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 1,201 people across America, just during the month of December 2005, were killed in highway crashes involving…