Category: HUB Opinion

  • Teachers’ talk with gov. touches on many topics

    Mentoring, charter schools, class size among issues for local educators By libby kesilStaff Writer Teachers’ talk with gov. touches on many topics PHOTOS BY VERONICA YANKOWSKI Gov. James E. McGreevey held a Teacher Town Meeting Jan. 29 at Red Bank Regional High School, Little Silver. Mentoring, charter schools, class size among issues for local educators…

  • Group for parents of WTC victims created

    CPC Behavioral Healthcare, Red Bank, has announced the creation of a support group for Monmouth County parents of children lost in the World Trade Center (WTC) attack. The group is available through Project Phoenix sponsorship. The group will meet Fridays from 10-11 a.m., with the first meeting Feb. 7. Meetings will be at CPC’s Helen…

  • State summit to focus on education funding, reform

    School officials from around the state will attend a summit next week in East Brunswick to discuss the way New Jersey funds education and how it can be reformed. The event, called "Public Support for Public Education," is being sponsored by the Garden State Coalition of Schools (GSCS) and will be held at 7:30 p.m.…

  • The wait is finally over for

    St. James School chicks JERRY WOLKOWITZ As part of the Miracle of Life program, students at St. James Elementary School, Red Bank, learned about the life cycle of chickens and watched these chicks hatch. RED BANK – Once again, the chicks have hatched at St. James Elementary School. The Miracle of Life program is in…

  • BCC students speak out about tuition increase

    By josh davidsonStaff Writer BCC students speak out about tuition increase By josh davidson Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — Brookdale Community College students rolled with the punches as the school’s board of trustees announced a 4.7-percent tuition hike for the 2003-2004 school year. While some students on campus knew of the planned increase, approved by the…

  • FRANK G. WARNER, 91, of Farmingdale died Jan. 29 at Care One at Holmdel. He was born in Union City and lived in Freehold Township before moving to Farmingdale 17 years ago. He was employed at Central Jersey Bank and Trust Company, Freehold, for 31 years before his retirement as a vice president in 1977.…

  • Summit will be a useful forum on needed changes

    School taxes, long the brunt of our property tax bills in New Jersey and the component seemingly most prone to increases, rose so drastically in so many local communities as a result of last April’s budgets that we can barely stand the thought of another dramatic jump this year. It is hard to imagine another…

  • Council commended for creation of historic preservation commission

    The Jan. 10 article on the creation of a historic preservation commission in Red Bank was a welcome piece of news. The formation of this committee is long overdue and, as the article already evidenced, much of the damage is done. I would like to commend Pat Menna and Jennifer Beck for working in a…

  • Prown’s patrons know what they have lost

    By gloria stravelliStaff Writer By gloria stravelli Staff Writer PHOTOS BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Kathy Dorn Severini paid a visit to David Prown during the final week his store was open. “I feel like part of the family’s going,” said Dorn Severini, whose family has operated a photography business in Red Bank since 1937. “Prown’s was…