Category: HUB Opinion

  • Army thanks supporters for help during year

    During National Salvation Army week, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank our volunteers, donors, friends and supporters for their help throughout the year. Without your support, we would not be able to accomplish all we do to help those less fortunate in New Jersey. How do we help those in need? Throughout New…

  • Shadow Lawn summer season

    Shadow Lawn Stage at Woods Theatre, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, has announced its summer 2006 season. + June 2-18, “Butterflies are Free” by Leonard Gershe. The story of a blind young bachelor who is trying to escape an overprotective mother who interferes in his relationship with an actress. + June 23-July 9, “Da” by…

  • Bob Duerr & John Weber

    Guest Column Surfrider Foundation, not women’s clothing retailer, knows beaches Recently, you reported the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) and their friends at the Jersey Shore Partnership declared the beaches from Sea Bright to Manasquan among the best replenished beaches in America. As the main group lobbying and enabling the Army Corps of…

  • Pupils learn to avoid trouble

    Sgt. Steven Tagerty of the Oceanport Police Department talked to students at Wolf Hill School about techniques to use in resisting peer pressure. OCEANPORT – Students in the fourth grade at Wolf Hill School in Oceanport were visited by the borough police department last week to discuss the consequences of giving in to peer pressure.…

  • Appetite for instruction

    Rock ‘n Music Academy, Middletown, a summer camp with power chords BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer Students of the Rock ‘n Music Academy practice their songs. MIDDLETOWN – This ain’t your daddy’s summer camp. Howard Lee Edwards, the owner and operator of Rock ‘n Music Academy in Middletown, is offering summer…

  • Tinton Falls K-8 budget approved by one vote

    Court rules absentee ballot should be counted; vacations blamed for tie BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer TINTON FALLS – A resolution on the Borough Council’s agenda Tuesday night to discuss cuts in the school district’s budget became unnecessary when a court ruled that a disputed absentee ballot should be counted. That…

  • Obituaries

    John Kowalski Mr. Kowalski, 85, of Freehold Township, died May 9 at St. Barnabas Hospice, Long Branch, after a battle with kidney disease. Born in Bayside, N.Y., he moved to Freehold Township in 1929. Mr. Kowalski worked as an apprentice weaver in the A & M Karagheusian rug mill from 1939 to 1942, when he…

  • In the Arts

    The Music of Invention series will present Bruce Gremo on Shakuhachi and Laptops tonight at 8 p.m. at the Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, 20 Third Ave., Long Branch. Gremo, an electroacoustic flutist, solo performer, composer and improviser based in New York City has a studio, Suddensite, in Lower Manhattan, and is an important…

  • Photo

    Jersey Shows will present The second annual Red Bank Unplugged Festival on Saturday, June 10. Doors open 1:30 p.m. at Chubby’s, 26 W. Front St., and Internet Caf, 1 W. Front St., Red Bank. With: Kevin Devine, The Feverfew, Outsmarting Simon, Ropetree, Days Like These, Kiss Kiss, Pablo, Corn Mo, Wahoo Skiffle Crazies, For Pete’s…