Category: HUB Opinion

  • Still waiting for answers

    It’s been several weeks since questions surfaced about the Community YMCA of Red Bank’s handling of state funds earmarked for a skateboard park, and still no answers are forthcoming from the Y. In fact, despite repeated attempts to reach its president, Richard Pollock, over the past few weeks, the Y has remained silent. Now, Red…

  • Passage of bills pose threat to Reckless estate

    Open letter to the members of the state of New Jersey Senate and Assembly Assembly Bill 2697/Senate Bill 1584 are the most dangerous threats to historic preservation in recent memory because they establish a new criteria for continued property tax exemption eligibility for nonprofit organizations. This new criteria will result in the loss of many…

  • Tredwell house ‘embodies features of our heritage’

    (Open letter to members of the Rumson Planning Board) As you enter Rumson, signs proudly declare “Rumson Settled 1665.” But, where is the evidence to support this? The house and property most significant and vital to the earliest settlement of Rumson is slated for demolition at the hands of its owners, Arthur and Leslie Parent.…

  • Fair Haven parents urged to join ‘Starting Small’

    I was dismayed to read the letter by a Fair Haven parent lamenting some of the changes we’ve seen in our schools in recent years. In my experience every change has been an improvement on the old methods of rote learning and memorization. I applaud our teachers, administrators and social workers, who have designed and…

  • Economics, not litigation, to blame for lack of vaccine

    The letter written in your Oct. 21 edition — which blamed the shortage of flu vaccine directly on litigation — gave a much too simple and inaccurate reason for a complicated problem. Litigation is not the primary reason we now have insufficient flu vaccine. Actually, the main reason is there is little profit in flu…

  • Obituaries

    Elizabeth W. “Nicky” Moss Mrs. Moss, 87, died Oct. 22 at New Jersey Veterans Home, Menlo Park, following a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Born in Baltimore, she resided in the Shore area before moving to Middletown, where she resided 50 years. Mrs. Moss was a nurse at St. James School, Red Bank, and Red…

  • Youth shouldn’t be exposed to gambling, reader says

    (Open letter to the New Jersey Legislature and parents of school-age children) In recent sessions, our legislature has passed laws that will subject persons under 21 years of age to a criminal record for drinking a single beer in public, and is currently attempting to impose driving license suspensions on any person under the age…

  • Board of Ed fine-tunes school referendum

    Voters will decide on $10.9M in renovations next spring BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer FAIR HAVEN — The Board of Education is well on its way to completing the preliminary work for a referendum that will ask voters to approve $10.9 million in additions and improvements to both Knollwood and Sickles…

  • Obituaries

    Austin J. Gent Austin J. Gent, 5 months, of Tinton Falls, died Oct. 10 at home. He is survived by his parents, Susan E. and James M. Gent; two brothers, Zachary J. and Caleb J., both at home; his maternal grandparents, Elizabeth and Alban Gass of Tinton Falls; his paternal grandparents, Mary Ann and George…