Category: HUB Opinion

  • RBR welcomes first school resource officer

    Officer Peter Gibson, RBR’s first SRO (school resource officer), gets acquainted with three students at RBR during lunch. Pictured with Gibson (l-r) are Monica Tauro and Julianne Malley of Union Beach and Ashley Mullins of Little Silver. LITTLE SILVER – Police Officer Peter Gibson has a new beat. The Little Silver police officer is the…

  • For a while, it was always summer in Long Branch

    City native authors two books on history of Long Branch BY LINDA DeNICOLA Correspondent Long Branch history is alive and well and is being showcased in a number of books by native daughter Sharon Hazard, whose family tree branches back to the 1860s, when her great-grandmother immigrated to the coastal town from Ireland. CHRIS KELLY…

  • Open houses at Rumson Country Day School

    Rumson Country Day School (RCDS) will host several open houses for prospective students. The schedule is: kindergarten, Friday, Oct. 19, 9-10:30 a.m.; all grades, Saturday, Nov. 17, 9-11 a.m.; preschool, Friday, Dec. 7, 9:30-10:30 a.m.; all grades, Saturday, Jan. 12, 9-11 a.m. Prospective kindergarteners must be 5 years old by Sept. 1, 2008. For more…

  • Principal’s challenge met with postcard blitz

    BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Wolf Hill Principal Renee Bonin. OCEANPORT – What began as an incentive to encourage Oceanport students to read over summer vacation turned into a much larger, and more rewarding, project than an Oceanport educator had anticipated. Renee Bonin, principal of Wolf Hill School, introduced first- through fourthgrade students at the…

  • There’s no substitute for experience on the road

    GREG BEAN Coda Last week, there was yet another story in one of our newspapers about a teenager killed in a horrific auto accident. This time the accident happened in East Brunswick near the Brunswick Square Mall. Dead was 16-year-old Dana Centanni of Middletown. Badly injured was 16-yearold Lindsay Capatasto, also of Middletown. As of…

  • Tales of Donovan’s may soon end

    Your Turn Susana Markson Guest Column So there’s been a lot of talk about the closing of Donovan’s Reef this summer. Of course, there’s a lot of talk about that every summer, the difference being that this time it’s true. There have been op-ed pieces and letters to the editor There have been local articles,…

  • Obituaries

    Edmund “Mondo” Talarico Mr. Talarico, 83, of Red Bank, died Oct. 12, 2007, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in Red Bank, he was a lifelong resident. He was a retired cobbler and owned Economy Shore Repair, Red Bank, for 45 years. He served with the U.S. Army Air Corps 385th Bombardment Group in…

  • Robert R. Ayres Sr.

    Mr. Ayres, 86, of Little Silver, died Oct. 8, 2007, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. He had been a resident of Little Silver since 1950. He was a retired machinist at Fort Monmouth, Eatontown. He was also a self-employed repairman of lamps, chandeliers and antiques. He served with the U.S. Navy during World War…

  • Albert J. Smith

    Mr. Smith, 83, of Hazlet, died Oct. 8, 2007, at home. Born in New York, he resided in New York City, and Ocean, prior to relocating to Hazlet. He was a retired detective lieutenant with the New York Police Department (NYPD), where he received the Medal of Honor. He was a past commandant of Marine…