Category: HUB Opinion

  • Class of 2005

    Mortarboards get a traditional toss skyward as students and family members celebrate during graduation ceremonies at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School on June 10. PHOTOSBYMIGUELJUAREZ staff Graduates contemplated the future at Red Bank Catholic High School graduation exercises in Collins Arena on the campus of Brookdale Community College on June 7. PHOTOSBYCHRISKELLY staff

  • Letters

    Tourists outrank residents in Red Bank It’s very reassuring to see, upon approval of another massive, out-of-place apartment/business complex, this time on Wallace Street, that the horrible condition of the street will be addressed. Oh wait, I’m sorry, only up to the building’s property line (or nearby). What a surprise: the street needs to be…

  • Public art calls for public input

    Red Bank is about to get its third installation of public art in the form of a mural at Riverside Gardens Park on West Front Street. Unfortunately, this important piece of public art has had minimal public input and the process by which it was selected shut out the local arts community. The mural will…

  • Your Turn

    Barry Carol Guest Column Barry CarolGuest Column Rail route would be too expensive in capital costs I want to offer some comments regarding the proposals to build a new rail line to serve the growing areas of western Monmouth and parts of Ocean counties as well as more general transportation issues affecting the state. I…

  • Teacher’s lesson to students: Stay young at heart

    Robert Minehardt retires after 40 years at Shrewsbury school PHOTOS BY LINDA DENICOLA Robert Minehardt teaches a sixth-grade class at the Shrewsbury Borough Elementary School June 3. BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer Roots, teaching, family and community are all important to sixth-grade teacher Robert Minehardt, who moved to Shrewsbury from Florida when he was 14…

  • No more pencils, no more times tables

    Red Bank, Keyport students tackle math with GPS and PDAs BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Red Bank Middle School seventh-graders Alba Sorino (l-r) and Adrianna Serrano beam information to each other as part of the school’s geocaching exercise last Monday. LAYLI WHYTE RED BANK — Riddle me this, riddle me that…

  • Letters

    Be a Peeping Tom for horseshoe crabs Want to help find spawning horseshoe crabs?The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has put out a call for volunteers to help identify horseshoe crab spawning habitat this spring. New Jersey’s Delaware Bay beaches are the main spawning, or egg-laying, grounds for the world’s largest concentration of horseshoe…

  • Obituaries

    Mary A. Pede Mrs. Pede, 89, of Little Silver, died April 15 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in Newark, she resided in Jersey City prior to moving to Little Silver in 1968. She was a retired receptionist at Riverview Medical Center, where she was employed more than 25 years. She was a communicant…

  • Letters

    Post-prom strategies for parents Well, it is that time of year again … spring is in the air and we are all counting down the days till summer break. For many parents, this is also the time of year when our children are planning proms and graduation parties. We at Prevention First want to remind…