Category: HUB Opinion
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Grant will bring author to Wolf Hill School
Funds will support school BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer OCEANPORT — The Oceanport School District is taking a different approach this school year in promoting literature to its students at the Wolf Hill School. “One focus in our school this year is reading and writing literacy, and what better way to…
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Obituaries
Teresa Filomena Lambiase Mrs. Lambiase, 94, of Red Bank, died Sept. 15 at Victoria House, Matawan. Born in Muro Lucano, Italy, she resided in Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Red Bank 25 years ago. Mrs. Lambiase was a homemaker. She was predeceased by her husband, Alberto Lambiase. Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, Albert and…
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Basie’s ‘Cool School’ expands programming
This fall, the Count Basie Theatre’s Cool School will continue its successful collaboration with American Jazz Venues. The program offers young musicians the rare opportunity to study with professional jazz masters. The fall program will begin Oct. 1 and run for 10 weeks. Music Theory and Improvisation classes will be open to musicians proficient on…
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Obituaries
Brendan O’Reilly Mr. O’Reilly, 20, of Fair Haven, died Sept. 5 in Phoenix, following a bicycle accident in Prescott, Ariz. He was a student at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., where he was a member of the crew team, and received the CRC Award in 2004 for outstanding achievement in chemistry. He graduated with honors from…
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Red Bank Street Fair
PHOTOSBYCHRISKELLYstaff Clockwise from left: Carter McCoy, 16, Rumson, demonstrates how to use an Indo Board Balance Trainer at the Red Bank Street Fair Sept. 11. Crowds of people turned out for the fair. Detective James Fields inputs information about Alexis Holiday, 11, Red Bank, for a kids’ identification program. Detective Mike Frazee fingerprints Bailey Holiday,…
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Letters
Katrina catastrophe a In this 21st century, we boast about modern technology and being globally connected, yet as a country we have fared no better in the tragic wake of Hurricane Katrina than we would have in centuries past. We are totally desensitized, disconnected and disjointed as people in the big scheme of Hurricane Katrina.…
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Collum to retire from Monmouth Reg’l HS
BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Patrick R. Collum Monmouth Regional High School in Tinton Falls is losing it’s Superintendent, Patrick R. Collum, who served the school district for 27 years. Collum’s retirement is effective next February. He served as the head of the school district for the past 15 years, and…
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County schools make the grade on security
School audits show 85 percent meet state security guidelines BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer As the academic year begins, more than three-quarters of schools in the county have met the school security requirements mandated by the state. According to Monmouth County Superintendent of Schools Eugenia Lawson, 85 percent of county schools…
