Category: HUB Opinion

  • Library announces change in Feb. 20 film

    Library announces change in Feb. 20 film The Eastern Branch of the Monmouth County Library has announced a correction in its free film scheduled for Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. Rather than Platinum Blonde, as previously scheduled, The More the Merrier, with Jean Arthur, will be shown. The library is located at 1001 Route 35,…

  • Obituaries

    Greater Media Newspapers prints obituaries as a free community service, at no charge to the families of the deceased or to the funeral homes that provide the information. JAMES L. DINEN, 83, of Fair Haven died Jan. 10 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. He was born in Long Branch. Mr. Dinen was a retired…

  • S.B. residents made their voices heard

    Let’s hope Sea Bright Councilman William Gel-found is right. Gelfound said the concept of redevelopment in Sea Bright is dead. It certainly should be. Last week more than 10 percent of the borough’s population came out on a bitterly cold night to make sure the council knew they objected to the idea — particularly if…

  • Littoral Society director addresses coastal sprawl

    TimDillingham Tim Dillingham Last year was a year of bad reviews for the coast. The Environmental Pro-tection Agency led off with an assessment of the nation’s estuaries that found them to be "in fair to poor condition," with our own northeastern estuaries rated as poor. The U.S. Oceans Commission released a review of the health…

  • OBITUARIES

    LOUIS MASTRIA, 78, of Rumson died Jan. 1 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in Jersey City, he had been a resident of Rumson for the past 44 years. Mr. Mastria was a deputy comptroller at Fort Monmouth Signal School, Eatontown, for 38 years, retiring in 1979. He served with the U.S. Army during…

  • Zoners should turn down application

    Zoners should turn down application There’s a lot more at stake than a few houses in the Red Bank Zoning Board of Adjustment’s hearing on a condominium project on Monmouth Street. The developer is seeking to nearly double the permitted density in the zone, and neighbors are rightly concerned about the effect such a development…

  • Toll booths are massive generators of accidents

    Citizens Against Tolls (CAT) has released data clearly illustrating the high number of accidents at or within 2.8 miles of the 11 Garden State Parkway (GSP) toll plazas. This information, extracted from a New Jersey Department of Transportation data base based on police reports, covers four years, 1997-2000. The total accidents are 11,427. This report…

  • Sprawl and drought intimately connected

    Whatever your opinion is of Gov. James McGreevey, he hit the nail on the head by calling for an end to sprawl while announcing the end of the current drought that has plagued the state. Make no mistake, the two problems are intimately related. New Jersey, and in particular central New Jersey, is an area…

  • Red Bank was Prown’s and Prown’s was Red Bank

    For those of us who know and love Red Bank, there are really two. There is the new Red Bank of Restoration Hardware, and Ashes, and the Bon Ton. And, there is the old Red Bank of Dorn’s, and Frank Thomas’ Custom Millwork, and the Brothers. But the quintessence of both Red Banks is Prown’s.…