Category: HUB Opinion

  • Taxpayers need to voice opinions over Hook’s future

    Thanks to The Hub for informing us about the National Park Service’s plans for commercial development of Fort Hancock by developer Sandy Hook Partners, LLC. Many people, like myself, have come to value Sandy Hook as one of the last relatively undisturbed shore ecosystems available in this area of the Jersey shore. The last time…

  • Director extends thanks to music program supporters

    As director of the Shore Regional High School music program, I’d like to sincerely thank each and every person who attended last week’s Board of Education meeting and showed their support of the arts at Shore Regional. It was truly heartwarming to see how many people care about our program. From graduates to parents to…

  • Memorial need not be in place tomorrow

    Memorial need not be in place tomorrow Things seem to be moving very quickly to put a memorial to the victims of the World Trade Center attacks on Sandy Hook. Perhaps a little too quickly. Considering the many families in Monmouth County devastated by the attacks, a memorial is certainly warranted, and Sandy Hook, which…

  • Corrections

    In the April 19 issue of The Hub, we incorrectly reported that school board members in Tinton Falls are paid for their work. In Tinton Falls, as in every school district in the state, Board of Education members serve without compensation. We greatly regret the error and apologize for any confusion or difficulties the mistake…

  • Students encouraged to take up space Astronaut in-training shares experiences with schoolchildren

    Staff Writer By Sherry conohan Students encouraged to take up space Astronaut in-training shares experiences with schoolchildren SHERRY CONOHAN NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman (l) holds up a lemon-lime drink, an example of the space food astronauts eat while aboard the space shuttle, during a presentation to children in the Shrewsbury School. Rep. Rush Holt holds…

  • 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. LINDAL I. "BROWNIE" BROWN, 69, of Oceanport died March 31 at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. Born in Summer Shade, Ky., he resided in Long Branch for…

  • Answers offered and sought from education commissioner Open letter to the New Jersey commissioner of education:

    Answers offered and sought from education commissioner Open letter to the New Jersey commissioner of education: My wife and I are both 68 years old and living on a fixed income with high property taxes — because 58 percent of my taxes go to support the schools — and it keeps going up. In light…

  • Water Watch seeking students to monitor Shrewsbury River

    I was happy and heartened by your recent lead article about high school students participating in a study of water quality. The report was most accurate and informative. For many years, the borough of Oceanport has been most supportive of its Water Watch Committee’s mission to monitor water quality in our watershed area. Come rain…

  • Quick decision on staffing doesn’t serve Shore Reg.

    Quick decision on staffing doesn’t serve Shore Reg. The Shore Regional High School Board of Education should move very cautiously in considering scaling back the positions of its only music teacher and one of the two art teachers. The proposal to make the positions part time was sprung unexpectedly on the teachers and the public…