Category: HUB Opinion

  • 21st annual Red Bank Jazz and Blues Festival

    The 21st annual Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival will take place June 1-3 at Marine Park beside the Navesink River. Nearly 150,000 attendees are expected this year to enjoy three full days and nights of jazz, blues, food, crafts and plenty of family fun. Produced by the Jersey Shore Jazz and Blues Foundation, the…

  • In the Arts

    “Forever Tango” will be presented at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank Friday, May 18, at 8 p.m. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, “Forever Tango” has been seen by more that 5 million people on five continents around the world. Features an all-Argentine cast of 14 dancers and an 11-piece orchestra. Tickets are $45,…

  • ‘Pix-Elated’ at McKay Gallery

    “Arsenic and Old Lace” by Vicky Culver An exhibit of manipulated photographs by Vicky Culver and Dian Sirkin is at McKay Imaging Studio and Gallery in Red Bank. “Pix-Elated” will run through June 8 at the gallery, located on the second floor of 12 Monmouth St.. Sirkin’s photographic art pieces began in her black-and-white chemistry…

  • For the love of Bob

    A Shore music legend pays tribute to birthday boy Dylan BY TOM CHESEK Correspondent BY TOM CHESEK Correspondent Pat Guadagno (center) and band members (l-r) Rich Oddo and Red River Rizzo of Tired Horses will perform in this year’s Bob Fest, marking the 66th birthday of folk icon Bob Dylan May 23 at the Two…

  • On Campus

    Phyllis Thangaraj, Leonardo section of Middletown, and a senior at the Ranney School, Tinton Falls, has been chosen to receive a $2,500 National Merit Scholarship. Winners are selected on academic skills and achievements, extracurricular accomplishments and potential for success in college studies. Thangaraj was also chosen for participation in the New Jersey Governor’s School for…

  • RBR alumni stroll down memory lane

    Alumni look over their high school yearbooks. The Red Bank Regional Education Foundation held its sixth annual Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame Dinner May 4 at Branches in Eatontown. This year’s nine inductees included a list of accomplished individuals whose graduation years at RBR ranged from 1939 through 1980. Renee Maxwell was also inducted into…

  • Here’s another law that motorists will just ignore

    Greg Bean Coda Greg BeanCoda Nine. That’s the number of people I saw talking on their cell phones while driving on my way to work this morning. Of the nine, one was a lady talking on the cell phone while blithely running a red light on Cranbury Road. I honked my horn when she nearly…

  • Saint James student writes winning ode to a good book

    Molly McNamara and Kathy Stanley. ‘That Was Then, This Is Now,” a poem written by Molly McNamara, an eighth-grade student at Saint James School in Red Bank, was the winner in the seventh/eighth-grade category of a countywide poetry contest for students in grades K-8. An awards ceremony held in the children’s book section of Barnes…

  • Obituaries

    Olga Mulvey Hoff Mrs. Hoff, 95, of Long Branch, died March 14, 2007, at St. Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, following a brief illness. Born in Newark, she resided there prior to relocating to Long Branch. She was employed in retail sales for department stores, as a Welcome Wagon…