Category: HUB Opinion

  • ‘Pawfiles’: Every dog’s got personality

    Winnie, Monmouth Beach Lilly is a street urchin at heart. She raids the garbage outside her apartment, chases rodents and pigeons, but has a taste for the high life and filet mignon. Charlie doesn’t need any prompting to sing along with bagpipes or the harmonica, but hates the sound of thunder and cell phones. Johnny…

  • An informed voter makes the best decision at polls

    Greg Bean Coda As we count down to the elections, I’ve been taking calls from local politicians and their handlers wondering if they’ll get our endorsement before voters go to the polls. I always tell them no. Fact is, we stopped making editorial endorsements of candidates several years ago for a variety of reasons. In…

  • Coda

    Red Bank’s Menna can’t blame falsehoods on his hired guns Greg Bean They say you can’t believe everything you read, and that’s especially true when it comes to political advertising during the campaign season. Although there are fewer races to contend with this year than in other years, there are bitter battles going on in…

  • Support sought for open-space funding mechanism

    We have a chance to strike a positive blow for our county park system. A referendum on the Nov. 7 ballot would authorize a steady source of funds for preserving open space. If approved, we will continue enjoying the finest county park system in the country. Currently, the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders takes a…

  • Favorite restaurant will be missed

    Losing your favorite restaurant is like losing a family member. That’s the way I felt when I discovered that Villa Eduardo on West Front Street in Red Bank had closed its doors after 14 years. Our town is the restaurant capital of Monmouth County. However, only a select few are above average. The Villa was…

  • Writers praised for revealing plight of homeless

    Thank you for bringing to the public the plight of the homeless in Monmouth County through recent articles by Layli Whyte and Christine Varno in The Hub and Atlanticville newspapers. Although 900 people may seem a small number when compared to Monmouth County’s population of more than 600,000, the daily struggle of the homeless should…

  • Legislators support open space question

    We, the undersigned Monmouth County state legislators, are encouraging the support of Monmouth County voters on the Nov. 7 Monmouth County Open Space question. Approval of question No. 4 will allow continued acquisition of open space and improvements to recreational facilities in the face of rising real estate values. The Monmouth County Board of Chosen…

  • Obituaries

    Edward P. Daly Mr. Daly, 82, of the Cliffwood Beach section of Old Bridge, died Oct. 18, 2006, at Regency Park Nursing Home, Hazlet. Born in Newark, he resided there before moving to Cliffwood Beach in 1951. Mr. Daly was a physical science technician and was awarded several patents while employed at Fort Monmouth for…

  • In the Arts

    Israeli pianist Yoni Levyatov will perform Saturday, Nov. 4, at 8 p.m., at Two River Theater, 21 Bridge Ave., Red Bank. The program will include works by Bach, Debussy, Chopin, Schubert; Schubert-Liszt: Liszt. Levyatov made his New York concert debut in 2005 as the winner of the Dora Zalavsky Koch Competition. The concert is the…