Category: HUB Opinion

  • Community, developer should reach accord

    Tinton Falls residents should be happy to hear that Sterling Properties, the Livingston developer seeking to purchase the Laurino farm, is inviting the community to hear the details of their plans for the property. By coming to the community with its proposal for a townhouse development, the company is signaling that it is willing to…

  • R.B. education initiative should practice what it preaches

    Regarding the guest column on the editorial page of the Aug. 23 issue of The Hub, "Board should have reached out on superintendent’s hiring": It’s hard to know where to begin with this unconstructive criticism of the Red Bank Board of Education written by David Tarver and Dr. Donald Warner, president and vice president, respectively,…

  • Holy Cross parishioner says church is about people, not place

    I am taking a deep breath before responding to two recent articles in the Hub regarding the response of some parishioners to the proposed renovations to the church and school of the community of Holy Cross, whose worship space is in the town of Rumson. The first question I have is whether it is responsible…

  • New school year holds out promise of new beginnings

    When students return to school in the coming week, they will have new pencils, new tablets and, in at least one case, a new school. Monmouth Beach will joyfully open the doors of a new $4.49-million addition to returning students that School Superintendent Neil Franken-field said will at last give the district the proper facilities…

  • OBITUARIES

    DENISE B. KNIGHT TOMAN, 41, of Brick and formerly Red Bank, died Aug. 16. She was born in Red Bank. She was a phlebotomist at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. She was predeceased by her sister, Deborah Knight Faller. She is survived by her husband and daughter, Glen Toman, and Katelynn Deborah Toman, both of…

  • Guest Column

    David Tarver and Dr. Donald WarnerBoard should have reached out on superintendent David Tarver and Dr. Donald Warner Board should have reached out on superintendent’s hiring We learned last week that the Red Bank Borough Board of Education has appointed a new Superintendent of Schools. While we certainly hope that the appointee, Dr. John Krewer,…

  • Civil hearings deserve civil procedures

    Whether approved or disapproved, the plan to expand Holy Cross church and school has clearly created acrimony in the parish. At the last hearing, some supporters of the plan took the unfortunate step of publicly launching personal attacks against fellow parishioners who have had the temerity to disagree with them. Those who oppose the plan…

  • Put a records vault in new borough hall

    Maybe things were going too well, or perhaps there is some unwritten rule that any municipal construction project has to have some unreasonable delay or somehow be completed in an unsatisfactory manner. Those are the only logical explanations for the conflict that arose over placing a vault for borough records in the clerk’s office of…

  • Storm came and went, but memories will stay

    It was short, but it wasn’t sweet. Last Friday’s storm may have lasted less than two hours, but as people emerged from their homes on Saturday morning, what they saw was a scene of devastation that topped anything in recent memory. More amazing than the storm though is how well it was handled in every…