Category: HUB Opinion

  • 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. HELEN KRETSCHMAR COLBY, 79, of Tinton Falls, died Aug. 2 at The Sycamore, Shrewsbury. Born in Philadelphia, she had resided in Tinton Falls since 1961. Mrs. Colby…

  • Take the huts, and the flag too

    Whether happily or not, it seems the tiki hut turmoil in Sea Bright has come to an end. This week Andrew Mencinsky removed his hut, and public works employees were sent to remove the hut of Al Lambiase and a third hut that was under construction on the borough’s public beach. Although undoing the men’s…

  • Guest Column

    Jeffrey Ross WilliamsTime is now to deal with beach replenishment Jeffrey Ross Williams Time is now to deal with beach replenishment The clock is ticking. The federal and state-funded beach replenishment project is about to start in Elberon (Long Branch), and this stretch of coast will suffer substantial adverse environmental and recreational impacts unless the…

  • Caring families make Fresh Air Fund an ongoing success

    This summer marks our 125th anniversary of serving children from New York City. In 1877, the Rev. Willard Parsons, a minister of a small, rural parish in Sherman, Pa., asked members of his congregation to provide country vacations as volunteer host families for New York City’s neediest children. This was the beginning of The Fresh…

  • Discussion of tiki huts, other beach issues, needs clarification

    First, let me thank you for your editorial opinion supporting the removal of structures (tiki huts) from the public beachfront in Sea Bright. As a member of the Borough Council, I am glad you got to the heart of the issue and explained so clearly that, attractive or not, structures cannot be built by private…

  • Current needs must be a priority

    The Red Bank Education and Development Initiative seems to be gaining traction, with its goal of bringing the community together for the long-term effort of making the borough’s schools the best in the state. However, the short-term outlook for the town’s traditional K-8 district needs some serious attention. Right now the K-8 district that serves…

  • Good case has been made to ban snowmobiles from park

    Yellowstone National Park belongs to all Americans and not to just those who happen to live in the states where it is located — Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. A three-year public comment period on winter snowmobile use in Yellowstone resulted in a very large majority favoring the gradual phaseout of the snowmobiles over a period…

  • Board of trustees may be solution for Fort Hancock

    I read the June 14 editorial on Fort Hancock, and as one of the non-selected master development proposers, I would like to offer the following comments. As a rehabilitation planner who has worked in Washington, D.C., I know the likelihood of federal funds being used to restore the fort is remote, especially at a time…

  • Governor’s order shameful

    Just one day after a new public access law took effect, Gov. James McGreevey placed it under fire. McGreevey signed Executive Order 21, clearly intended to significantly reduce the availability of information that the new law was designed to bring into the light of public scrutiny. The governor said that he did this in order…