Category: HUB Opinion

  • For the Record

    The amount property taxes would increase if voters in four sending towns approve a $49.8 million referendum for upgrades to Shore Regional High School was incorrectly reported in the Aug. 17 issue. For correct figures, see page 10.

  • Forget Wyoming, write about New Jersey

    Mr. Bean insists upon referring to himself as a Democrat. With friends like that who needs an enemy? What I think he ought to do is examine his home state a little more closely. He talks about a surplus of $5.95 billion in Wyoming. That is absolutely criminal. On his figures the state has a…

  • For the Record

    In the Aug. 17 article on the Clearwater Festival, the reference to 25 times the level of dioxin mentioned by Ed Dlugosz was intended to refer to the level of octachlorodioxin (OCDD) that exists in Newark Bay, Arthur Kill and Newton Creek in Brooklyn, N.Y., which flow into the harbor and down to Sandy Hook…

  • Colleague’s attack on council stymies Menna

    I have known William Meyer for the greater part of 20 years as a colleague and member of the bar. I therefore do not understand his spirited attack on the members of the Red Bank Council. We can all agree to disagree on issues of public policy but the diatribe is from a Tinton Falls…

  • Why was Farber in office?

    I feel that retired Judge Richard J Williams did not go far enough as Attorney General Zulima V. (“Free the Guilty”) Farber should have been terminated and fined for having her live-in boyfriend, Hamlet. E Goore, receive special treatment from the Fairview P.D. and allowing him to drive his unregistered vehicle to their home in…

  • With a little improvisation, 13 can be a lucky number

    Improv Jam’s Summer League preps up-and-coming comics BY KELLY RIZZETTA Correspondent BY KELLY RIZZETTACorrespondent Will Kervick, of Ocean Township, Robby Webb, Rumson, Zach Jones, Brick, and Kevin Karoll (seated) compete as “The Foxy Ghandis.” Below, Mike O’Keefe (l-r), creative director, and Pete Capella, artistic director, introduce the teams in Improv Jam’s Summer League. Allowing rival…

  • District hires new director of curriculum

    Some concern among Board of Ed members about changes in post BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK – The district hired a new director of curriculum last week but not without some discussion about changes in the job description and salary for the position. Dr. Toni Mullins was hired as…

  • Greed led to destruction of Tredwell House

    (letter to Rumson Mayor John E. Ekdahl) It was with immense sadness that I received the news of the June 15 fire that destroyed the childhood home I called Holly Farm, also known as the Tredwell House, the oldest building in Rumson. As grief takes it s course, my emotions have turned to anger and…

  • High taxes for lousy education

    How is it that Shore Regional proposes, the four feeder towns snap to attention like the Steadfast Tin Soldier, and nobody in any borough government raises a call to reject this unrepresentative call for $50 million to be spent improving a high school that is at best second-rate and that looks good only because the…