Category: HUB Opinion

  • F.H. school budget to increase by 5 percent

    Cost of benefits up 18 percent; salaries rise by 5 percent BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer FAIR HAVEN –– The borough Board of Education adopted a $9.5 million budget at its March 23 meeting, a 5 percent increase from last year’s budget. The $462,093 increase would raise homeowners’ taxes by 4…

  • Oceanport school budget calls for 6.8-cent tax hike

    Dated heating systems cause maintenance costs to rise BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer OCEANPORT — The borough Board of Education approved a school budget last week that would increase the tax rate by approximately 5.7 percent, if adopted by voters next month. The $7.7 million budget calls for 6.8 cents per…

  • School budget passes; 8 cent refund in store

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer TINTON FALLS — With the recent adoption of the 2005-06 schools budget came the good news of a refund mixed with the bad news of a state-mandated surplus drain that will probably need to be replenished by taxpayer dollars next year. So, while the…

  • Obituaries

    Anna Conk Mrs. Conk, 87, of Middletown, died March 18 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in Rumson, she resided in Fair Haven for many years before moving to Middletown. Mrs. Conk was a homemaker. She was predeceased by her husband, Walter Conk, in 1967. She is survived by three sons and daughters-in-law, Richard…

  • Finally, a pay-to-play law that makes sense

    Coda Greg Bean Does it surprise anyone that the state’s new pay-to-play law has been in effect for less than a week, and already some people have figured a way around it? On March 22, acting Gov. Richard Codey signed into law a measure prohibiting the awarding of state contracts worth $17,500 or more to…

  • Eatontown extends thanks for help during disaster

    On behalf of the Eatontown Fire Department, Eatontown First Aid Squad, Eatontown Office of Emergency Management, and Eatontown Police Department, we would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank the many agencies and organizations that responded to the Petco store explosion March 4. It was clear from the outside that the magnitude of this…

  • Petco thanks all who responded on March 4

    Petco has always been a community pet store, and we have never felt more a part of the community than we do now, after so many emergency personnel, associates from our surrounding stores and our animal welfare partners pulled together to help save people and animals trapped in our Eatontown store following the March 4…

  • How to ensure government transparency

    I was really impressed by how quickly Freeholder Amy H. Handlin indicted every local elected official in Monmouth County. Because seven of the 11 men accused of wrongdoing are local elected officials, Handlin wasted no time in condemning all local elected officials (800 of them) by excluding them from employment in county government — all…