Category: HUB Opinion

  • These homeowners say they’re getting robbed

    Coda Greg Bean If you think we’re making progress eradicating organized crime, you probably ought to take a look at Long Branch, N.J., where there are plenty of people who’d argue the city fathers have turned municipally organized crime into an art form. Recently, the city took its first legal step in condemning 11 of…

  • Boro awards schools construction contract

    Addition to Knollwood, new library at Sickles in $8.2M renovation BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer FAIR HAVEN — The borough Board of Education awarded a contract this week for renovations to the two borough schools, which could begin as early as next month. Borough voters approved a referendum for renovations to…

  • Photo

    PHOTOS BY MIGUEL JUAREZ staff From right, Petra Leonard and son Justin, 6, of Tinton Falls, prepare boxes to send school supplies and children’s books to Hurricane Katrina-displaced children in Mobile, Ala., during Mahala F. Atchison School’s Operation: Helping Hands on Dec. 9; Sabrina Lamana, 7, Tinton Falls, starts a pile of markers to be…

  • Obituaries

    Robert G. Wissel Mr. Wissel, 66, of the Lincroft section of Middletown, died Nov. 23 at home following a battle with brain cancer. He was raised in Florham Park. He was employed in sales and marketing for several companies, including Land O’Lakes, Stouffer Chemical, and Tenneco. He also worked part time at Mark Sternberg, CPA,…

  • Who will listen to us?

    Your Turn Gary A. Baldwin Guest Column As our average population grows older, we all begin to think about the quality of life in later years. Where will we live? Will we be happy? Will help be available for our health-care needs? In other words, who will be listening to our concerns? We can depend…

  • Letters

    Will of people ignored on deer, bear hunts in New Jersey The English enclosure laws of the 16th century divested tenured peasants of their land and enabled large landowners to create deer parks where they could shoot semitame deer on what used to be public lands. One might have thought all this was history. But…

  • OK, it’s hot, but will it stand the test of time?

    Coda Greg Bean My old Granny Bean was deeply suspicious of any new technology that hadn’t been around long enough to stand the test of time. According to my father, his was the last family in town to get a radio, because Granny thought they were just a fad, and there was no reason people…

  • District ordered to teach First Amendment rights

    Course part of court settlement of suit over student BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer OCEANPORT –– The borough Board of Education will be conducting a constitutional rights seminar as the result of a recently settled lawsuit that found the Oceanport school district in violation of a student’s First Amendment rights. The…

  • Obituaries

    Susan Rose Russo Miss Russo, 54, of Red Bank, died Dec. 1 at home. She was a consultant at AT&T, Middletown. Prior to that, she was an information technologist at AT&T, as well as Lucent Technologies, World Partners and Business Edge Solutions, where she was employed 23 years. She received her bachelor’s degree at City…