Category: HUB Opinion

  • Time is now to take a stand for peace

    The stunning upset victory of Ned Lamont in the Connecticut primary sent shock waves around the country. While the yellow journalists and shallow Fox 5 media “pundits” scramble to generate a negative spin here, the progressive community and democratic forces in this country are breathing fresh air for the first time in a long while.…

  • Renew commitment to protect the environment

    (Remarks prepared for 31st annual Clearwater Festival: Aug. 19 -20.) Our theme this year is “Alternative Energy: Alternate Energy: Blowing In The Wind, Shining Down, and Growing In Our Fields.” With the reality of global warming, the dual threat of high prices and dirty energy, and the dwindling of resources we must make an effort…

  • Sarah’s mom thanks community for support

    On July 29 the Fair Haven Fire/First Aid Department hosted a benefit for our daughter Sarah. Sarah has an undiagnosed illness since May 2005. After a dozen surgical procedures, tests, countless doctors and hospital stays we are still left searching for answers. The town pulled together that night for something special, several hundred people from…

  • Music, activism are at heart of Clearwater

    31st Clearwater fest set for Aug. 19 & 20 at Sunset Park in Asbury BY KATHY HALL Correspondent BY KATHY HALLCorrespondent PHOTOBYMARKLAMHUT Above: Crowds listen to music at last year’s Clearwater Festival in Sunset Park. Folk music and social activism have enjoyed a long and harmonious relationship and the Monmouth County Friends of Clearwater definitely…

  • Eclectic gallery offers choices for art lovers

    Paintings, sculpture, blown glass and more at Beacon Fine Arts BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Above, Sharon Hathaway shows Spencer Page and Maria Mager of Freehold original serigraphs by artist Jim Buckles at Beacon Fine Arts Gallery. Below right, “La Fitte,” a sculpture of polished stainless steel by Sylvia Chait is…

  • In the Arts

    Monmouth University’s Performing Arts Series will present one of the world’s leading comedy troupes, Second City, in their uproarious political satire titled “Truth, Justice or the American Way” at Pollak Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 21, at 8 p.m. Second City skewers American politics and morality, while also exploring the little things in life that make…

  • Art Alliance exhibit at Monmouth Museum

    “Lady in Pink” by Su Fong Shiao A group exhibition of works by members of the Art Alliance of Monmouth County in Red Bank is at the Monmouth Museum in Lincroft. The exhibition, which will run through Sept. 3 in the museum’s Nilson Gallery, features drawings, paintings, pastels and sculpture. Since its founding in May…

  • Taste of Red Bank, jazz orchestra debut Aug. 19

    With an abundance of fine restaurants, Red Bank is the natural setting for a new culinary event that will be introduced Aug. 19. “Taste of Red Bank” will showcase more than a dozen of the town’s eateries. The event will be held from noon to 5 p.m. in the parking lot of the Two River…

  • Obituaries

    Richard James Byrne Jr. Mr. Byrne, 77, of Little Silver, died Aug. 6 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in Newark, he resided in Shrewsbury for 40 years before moving to Little Silver eight years ago. Mr. Byrne was the current manager of Concrete Resurfacing Inc., Shrewsbury. Prior to that, he was president of…