Category: HUB Opinion

  • Reading plays key role for students learning English

    Parents, teachers aim to foster love of reading in students BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK – Increased literacy is the goal for all students at Red Bank Primary School, and bilingual students are no exception. Andrea Fontenez, a first grade teacher of bilingual students who are not quite ready…

  • In the Arts

    “Uncanning Worms: Exper-imental Music for the Anomalous Ear” is a monthly music series at the Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts in Long Branch. Saturday’s show at 8 p.m. will feature Dennis Young and Caves of Mercury. Young composes his own music which combines influences from rock, jazz, dance, folk and world music. He is…

  • Are high schools ready for a changing world?

    Meeting Feb. 22 to discuss future of high schools The New Jersey High School Redesign Steering Committee, composed of the leadership of New Jersey’s education, business and higher education communities, will continue its statewide conversation on high school reform throughout New Jersey with a meeting for parents, community members, educators and the general public at…

  • Exhibit asks, Can spring be far behind?

    “One Poppy” Monmouth Beach artist John Salvi is “Chasing the Blues Away” with a group of contemporary, abstract paintings exhibited at The Art of Skincare in Spring Lake. Salvi’s paintings reprise the warm hues of spring and summer with rich colors and sweeping gestures. According to Salvi, the vibrant colors of the acrylic paintings are…

  • Asbury Park celebrates past, present, future

    Celebrate Asbury Park is commemorating the 110th anniversary of the incorporation of the city with a yearlong calendar of events. To kick off the celebration, an anniversary party will be held Friday, April 13, at the Convention Hall Arcade. Event highlights include a special cake and historic Asbury Park music topped off with a fireworks…

  • African American History Month at Monmouth Regional H.S.

    Left, Damon Blair, 16, looks over one of the exhibits on display at Monmouth Regional High School marking African American History Month Feb. 9. Above, Joe Yglesias, 18, drums while classmates dance during an activity highlighting African American contributions to music. PHOTOSBYCHRIS KELLY, staff

  • Mon. Museum to offer trips beginning April 26

    Monmouth Museum, Lincroft section of Middletown, will offer a trip to the Louis Comfort Tiffany exhibition and Laurelton Hall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, April 26. Cost is $90 for nonmembers, and $85 for members, and includes lunch at the Petrie Court Restaurant. A trip to the King Tut Exhibition at…

  • Forum on taxes & school funding

    The Fair Haven Board of Education and Fair Haven PTA will sponsor a Fair Haven Property Tax and School Funding Forum Tuesday, Feb. 20, 7:30- 9 p.m., at Viola L. Sickles School, 25 Willow St., Fair Haven Speakers will include: State Sen. Ellen Karcher (D-12), Assemblyman Michael Panter (D-12), Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck (R-12) and Garden…

  • Mayor: Historic commission is needed

    The recent article in The Hub on the ongoing debate in the Borough of Shrewsbury related to proposed ordinance establishing a Historic Preservation Commission provoked a number of comments from residents. In support of the Commission, a resident declared “The Historic District is Shrewsbury.” A new resident inquired about the history of the historic district.…