Category: HUB Opinion

  • Second traffic study is the same farce as the first

    Once again a traffic study was trotted out at a public hearing held on April 12 (comments limited to three minutes per person). And once again it was a farce with glaring omissions and no traffic expert to explain his conclusions. He arrived one and a half hours from when the meeting began. Once again…

  • Our View

    Shore Regionalis not the problem Shore Regional is not the problem Pity the poor Sea Bright property taxpayers. They carry what people keep telling them is an outsized burden to support the Shore Regional High School District, and worse, foot the bill for their own inept and inefficient municipal government. This week the Sea Bright…

  • Mayor, council satisfied with school officials

    It is with great disappointment that we, the mayor and council of Little Silver, read your editorial in the "Our View" section of the April 4 Hub. It appeared under the title of "Educators appear in no rush to inform." While it seems your paper was not satisfied with the information provided by the Board…

  • Tax cuts not beneficial to low-wage workers either

    I read with interest your article of April 4 "County termed ‘least affordable’ in country." It listed many low-wage jobs whose workers would not be able to afford housing in Monmouth County. I’d like to add the observation that these workers would not benefit at all from the Bush tax cuts currently under consideration in…

  • Our View

    No reason for fight over tax increase Our View No reason for fight over tax increase It is not surprising that the question of exactly which system bears more responsibility for a school-purposes property-tax increase is a hotly disputed issue among those who run Red Bank’s two public school systems. Just as nobody wants to…

  • OBITUARIES

    OBITUARIES CLARINA ‘SHERRY’ PETRAGLIA WEBBER, 89, of Red Bank died April 26 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in Atlantic Highlands, she resided in Shrewsbury and the Leonardo section of Middletown before moving to Red Bank in 1961. Mrs. Webber was a manager at Hahne’s Department Store, Eatontown, for several years. Prior to that,…

  • School board reorganizes; approves $13.6M budget

    Two members of Red Bank DevelopmentInitiative sworn in By sandi carpelloStaff Writer School board reorganizes; approves $13.6M budget Two members of Red Bank Development Initiative sworn in By sandi carpello Staff Writer RED BANK — W. David Tarver may be the school board’s most inquisitive member. Just moments after being sworn in to the borough’s…

  • Charter school opening up to other communities

    School districts in towns where charter was issued are suing to stop opening By sherry conohanStaff Writer By sherry conohan Staff Writer The New Jersey Shore Charter School, which will serve grades 5 through 7 initially, has filled less than half of the slots available for its first year of operation, according to a member…

  • Sea Bright battling hard to cut high school budget

    Officials insist students are not receiving theeducation taxes pay for By sherry conohanStaff Writer Officials insist students are not receiving the education taxes pay for By sherry conohan Staff Writer The Shore Regional High School Board of Education and the borough of Sea Bright are squaring off for a fight to the finish on the…