Category: HUB Opinion
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Teaching students how to be safe on the Web
BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK — With students becoming Internet experts by the time they are in middle school, the borough’s schools will be the first in the county to take steps to ensure their safety. Red Bank public schools will pilot a new Internet safety program sponsored by…
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Licensing bill needed for wildlife rehabilitators
N.J.’s wildlife is in big trouble. Until recently, many volunteers cared for distressed and disabled wildlife. Townships, veterinarians and homeowners had relied on wildlife rehabilitators to deal with animals that typically a taxpayer paid-for official would be called upon to remove. Wildlife rehabilitators numbered more than 100 to cover the entire state. Due to recently…
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Obituaries
Kathryn K. Harbort Mrs. Harbort, 87, of Little Silver, died March 28 in Red Bank. Born in Red Bank, she resided in several states, Canada, Korea and Germany while her husband was in the U.S. Army, prior to moving to Little Silver in 1976. She was a communicant of Church of the Nativity, Fair Haven,…
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Credit card offers: Pay now and keep on paying
Greg Bean Coda By today’s standards, my grandmother had some pretty strange ideas about money. For one thing, as a survivor of the stock market crash and bank failures of the Great Depression, she refused to keep her money in a bank during a Republican presidential administration. She blamed the Republicans for everything bad that…
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Charter school, too, feels pinch of budget crunch
RBCS will get $130K less in state mandate aid this year BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK — Although technically exempt from state-imposed limits on school spending, the Red Bank Charter School is finding that it, too, must watch its budget closely. At the recent board of trustees meeting, Gail…
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Legislators must act on school funding
The frustration can be heard in the voices of local school board members and administrators who believe state legislators are pulling in the reins — to the detriment of students — on the amount of money they are permitted to spend on education each year. The frustration can most definitely be heard in the voices…
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Cold winters and red tape
It is expensive to live in New Jersey, especially when it comes to housing. Anyone who has checked into renting even a modest apartment in almost any community in this state is likely astonished at the cost. New Jersey is the third most expensive state for rental housing, and the most expensive rental market for…
