Category: HUB Opinion

  • Cancer Society seeking support for Relay for Life in Freehold

    The American Cancer Society has been an active member of Monmouth County communities for many years, offering a number of patient and family services, cancer support groups, tobacco control programs and lifesaving research. We continue our mission thanks to the help of dedicated staff and generous volunteers. The American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life is…

  • Grieving Fair Haven parents extend thanks to neighbors

    We want to express our sincere thanks and gratitude to the many friends and neighbors who were of tremendous assistance to us during the brief life of our infant daughter, Gracie. Gracie was born on March 22 and died on April 21 due to complications from a form of leukemia with which she was born.…

  • Right and wrong moves on racism

    If you want to think about racism as something that happens someplace else, this week’s incidents at Red Bank Regional High School should disabuse you of that notion in a hurry. In the span of a few days a 15-year-old girl used a most derogatory term for people who are her classmates, teachers and neighbors,…

  • 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. JOAN ELLIN GLEASON, 74, of Middletown died May 5 at home. Born in Bridgeport, Conn., she resided in Middletown the past 47 years. She was a retired…

  • Historic chapel should be respected, not demolished (Open letter to John Brenner and members of the Fair Haven Planning Board):

    Historic chapel should be respected, not demolished (Open letter to John Brenner and members of the Fair Haven Planning Board): I was extremely dismayed to recently read in the newspapers of the probable demolition of Fisk Chapel/Bicenten-nial Hall. Everyone knows of this building’s remarkable origins. It was built as a church for the black community…

  • Shore Regional superintendent not fit to remain in post

    The superintendent of Shore Regional High School, Leonard G. Schnappauf, is, in my opinion, the most uneducated educator I have ever met, and I have met him dozens of times at school board meetings and at school conferences. He never head of Title IX even when the whole United States knew it was an equality…

  • Guest Column Dr. Terrence P. Zealand

    Guest Column Dr. Terrence P. Zealand Development will evict St. Clare’s from Hook As some of you know, I submitted a proposal in response to the original request for a proposal. We were led to believe Sandy Hook Academy had an excellent chance of being selected because of its concept and building use, nonprofit status…

  • 180 needs your help now

    In this week’s Hub, you’ll read two stories about 180, Turning Lives Around (formerly the Women’s Center of Monmouth County). The Hazlet-based nonprofit is the lone county agency that offers comprehensive services to domestic violence and sexual assault victims. One story is about individuals who were honored at the recent 26th annual awards dinner honoring…

  • 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. NELLIE C. WEINGARTNER, 96, of Tinton Falls died April 13 at Blythe House, Tinton Falls. Born in Rio Grande du Sul, Brazil, she lived in Port Orange,…