Category: HUB Opinion

  • State should continue funding for Governor’s School

    I was a scholar at the Governor’s School of Public Issues held this summer at Monmouth University. Four years ago, my sister attended this program and not only did she learn so much from the staff, but she learned so much from the variety of people who attended the program, who she keeps in touch…

  • A question for Corzine

    I am a senior citizen living on a fixed income, an independent voter. and a property owner who doesn’t know how much longer I can remain in this state as my income doesn’t keep up with the taxes. I did not vote for our multimillionaire governor as I feel he bought the Senate, State House…

  • In the Arts

    Music lovers who head over to Riverside Gardens Park on West Front Street in Red Bank tonight will catch the jazz sounds of The Wolverines and the funk, boogie-woogie and honky-tonk music of The VooDUDES at the Comcast Jazz in the Park concert beginning at 7 p.m. On Friday, Songwriters in the Park, sponsored by…

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    Days Awake and Andrew Holtz, winners of the 2005 Asbury Music Awards for top rock band and top jam band, will present a night of acoustic rock at The Canning Company at the Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts in Long Branch Friday at 8 p.m.; $10 cover. On Saturday at SICA, 20 Third Ave.,…

  • Obituaries

    Charles Hendrick Whelan Mr. Whelan, 54, of Little Silver, died July 16 at home. Born in Long Branch, he was a lifelong resident of Little Silver. He owned a private family chiropractic practice in Little Silver, for 20 years. He was a communicant of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Colts Neck. Mr. Whelan was a…

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    Provocative singer/songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins will appear at Pollak Theatre, Monmouth University, 400 Cedar Ave. in West Long Branch, on Friday, Oct. 6, at 8 p.m. Also appearing is vocalist April Smith. Tickets for the concert, presented by the university’s Performing Arts Series, are available through the box office at (732) 263-6889.

  • Zambrano feels ‘awful,’ and well he should

    Greg Bean Coda Just when you think your personal disgust meter can’t go any higher, along comes Fazz Zambrano to kick it into full-tilt, red-line boogie. As most people in Monmouth County know, on July 20 John “Fazz” Zambrano pleaded guilty to taking a bribe in an undercover sting operation that has netted a whole…

  • Osborne photos at Oceanic Library

    “Hoover Dam” An exhibit of photographs by Ebba Osborne is at the Oceanic Free Library in Rumson for the month of August. Jeweler Elisabeth Bond, Rumson, is exhibiting her work in the library’s display case. Osborne studied photography at Brookdale Community College as well as pinhole photography at workshops in the southwest. She has exhibited…

  • That’s amore!

    A celebration of all things Italian, “Adoriamo gli Italiani! (We Love Italians!): A Joyous Festival,” will take place at Monmouth County Library headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan. The festival will consist of Italian films, a concert and a daylong festival. Two films with English subtitles will be shown: “Il Monstro,” on Aug. 21 at 2…