Category: HUB Opinion

  • LWV concerned over lack of bus shelters

    The League of Women Voters is an organization which encourages informed, active participation of citizens in government. In keeping with this tradition, the Monmouth County LWV recently hosted a Transportation Roundtable at Brookdale Community College. As a result of widespread concern expressed that evening, the league has developed a series of petitions. One of the…

  • Not all Scouts agree with Dale decision

    I am writing regarding the July 7 article, "County Scout council ready to move on." I’m glad that the Supreme Court decided that an organization such as the Boy Scouts of America has the liberty to prohibit someone from participating based on what it sees to be fundamentally a moral issue. That’s the good news.…

  • Prown responds to letter on driving shortcuts

    I read with interest Mr. Robert Clark’s letter last week and totally respect his difference of opinion. I just want to bring a few points of information to the surface that he and others might find of interest: 1. He mentions the traffic calming measures on Broad Street, I wonder if he knows that I…

  • ‘Thank you’ extended to supporters of SPCA

    On June 4, 2000, a spaghetti dinner was held in support of raising money to help the shelter pets at the Monmouth County SPCA. I would like to thank all the very generous people who came out to support the cause – we raised $1,100, plus lots of cans of cat and dog food. To…

  • ‘Wish list’ in spirit of freedom and justice for all In the spirit of “freedom and justice for all” in Fair Haven, I propose a little Independence Day wish list:

    ‘Wish list’ in spirit of freedom and justice for all In the spirit of "freedom and justice for all" in Fair Haven, I propose a little Independence Day wish list: Freedom to express ourselves in all aspects of life including the way we decorate our homes. It was never about history; it’s been about aesthetics.…

  • Elks express thanks for bowl-a-thon assistance

    The Red Bank Elks Lodge No. 233 recently hosted its second annual "Charity Bowl-a-Thon," under the direction of Richard Schnieder, our event chairman, at Memory Lanes in Shrewsbury to benefit New Jersey Elks Camp Moore in Haskel. The event raised more than $1,000 for disabled children. Richard Schnieder, who received a heart transplant over three…

  • Save Willowbrook

    The vandalism on this sign has grown out of protest against the sale and rezoning of Willowbrook Farms.

  • Is that your final answer? Maybe W

    Is that your final answer? Maybe W Welcome to Fair Haven. The town where everything is discussed and nothing is ever decided. Looking back over our archives from the past two years there are a few issues that seem to have made a permanent home for themselves in Fair Haven — Brown’s Lane, the historic…

  • Saving Holly Farm about preserving memories and history

    [Open letter to Rumson mayor and Planning Board]: I fear this letter may come too late, but feel it necessary to express myself nonetheless. Holly Farm was my home for more than 15 years … basically all of my youth. My remembrances of the house and property are vivid and precious. To have had the…