Category: HUB Opinion

  • Teacher sex charges beg for accountability and education

    CHRIS KELLY staff This 9/11 memorial gazebo is on the grounds of the Shrewsbury Borough Hall. After the Shore Regional High School Board of Education fired a male teacher accused of having an affair with a female student and adjourned its meeting, an upset and obviously perplexed woman walked up to the district’s Superintendent/Principal Leonard…

  • Jews’ resistance to Hitler receives little recognition

    Today we properly mourn and commemorate annually the 6 million Jewish victims of the World War II (WWII) Holocaust, and promote the stories of its relatively few survivors. However, why does the world Jewish community fail to properly and fully celebrate and honor — as well as proudly publicize — the heroic and effective exploits…

  • Prices driving shoppers out of R.B.

    This is in response to Jan Glass’ letter in the Sept. 3 Hub concerning Red Bank’s new meters. Although it is true shopping malls do not have meters, it is also true other upscale downtown shopping districts such as Summit and Westfield do have them, and have had them for years. The real reason Red…

  • For the Record

    Jack Wynn, executive director of STRIVE North Jersey Coast, can be reached at (732) 936-9190 or [email protected]. The contact information was incorrect in a business story on the job skills training program that ran in the Sept. 3 issue.

  • Open space ‘inspires us, heals our wounds’

    In advertisements by cellular phone companies, we often hear about the importance of connection, networks, and always having access to the system. What if we applied those concepts to something that we could actually touch, feel and be a physical part of — if we applied those concepts to describe our access to open space…

  • Resident: Hiring unqualified people is a problem

    As a charter member of the Greater Red Bank Tenants Association, I take exception to remarks made by Stanley Sickels regarding elevators at the Les Gertrude Apartments. The state may have not set new standards for elevators, but they are to be maintained in a safe manner for tenants; hence, calling in repairmen to solve…

  • Obituaries

    Claude Jerold Covington Obituaries Claude Jerold Covington Mr. Covington, 62, of Red Bank died Aug. 5. Born in Leaksville, N.C., he served with the U.S. Air Force in Istanbul, Turkey. Following his return, he resided in North Carolina prior to moving to Red Bank 40 years ago. Mr. Covington was an operations manager at IBM,…

  • Your turn

    Tricia RumolaGuest ColumnGroup cautious about White Street proposal(Open letter to Douglas C. Heppe of Kalian Companies) Your turn Tricia Rumola Guest Column Group cautious about White Street proposal (Open letter to Douglas C. Heppe of Kalian Companies) Tricia Rumola Guest Column Group cautious about White Street proposal (Open letter to Douglas C. Heppe of Kalian…

  • Red Bank will be ‘Dead Bank’ (Open letter to the mayor and council of Red Bank)

    Red Bank will be ‘Dead Bank’ (Open letter to the mayor and council of Red Bank) A $35 parking ticket, for a few minutes overdue? Red Bank has just lost yet another longtime, loyal shopper. Of course, this will be the solution to Red Bank’s parking problems. Additional parking won’t be needed because Red Bank…