Category: HUB Opinion

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • For the Record

    Red Bank Councilwoman Grace Cangemi voted against approval of the borough’s 2007 salary ordinance at the April 9 municipal meeting. An article in the April 19 issue incorrectly reported that Councilman John Curley was the only member of council to vote against the ordinance.

  • Abstracts at Atlantic Artisans

    “Special Vibration” by Lauren Feury ‘Abstract Expressionism,” an exhibit of works by Lauren Feury and Jessica Chiaffitella, is at Atlantic Artisans gallery in Atlantic Highlands. The exhibit will run through May 19 at the gallery, located at 68 First Ave. According to the gallery, Feury, Old Bridge, overlaps oil paint to create a sense of…

  • Obituaries

    Walter L. Huhn Mr. Huhn, 80, of Tinton Falls, died April 27, 2007, at Laurel Bay Care Center, Keansburg. He resided in Tinton Falls since 1950. He was an elevator mechanic at Westinghouse Elevator Co., Newark. He also co-owned a ceramic studio, Serendipity Shop, based in their home. He was a founding member of Northside…

  • TRTC names new creative team member

    Two River Theater Company in Red Bank has announced that K.J. Sanchez will join the company as associate artistic director in July. “K.J. is a director, playwright, actor and teacher, as well as an expert in collaboratively created theater,” said Aaron Posner, TRTC artistic director. “She is a bold and exciting artist who is comfortable…

  • Tri City Jazz reunion concert

    Tri City Jazz, a Jersey Shore-based jazz group, will perform in a reunion concert of its original members Saturday, 7:30-10 p.m., at the Reckless Estate, 164 Broad St., Red Bank. Fair Haven resident Chris Andreach leads the group on alto and soprano saxophones. Tri City Jazz was formed in 1990, and over the years has…