Category: HUB Opinion
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Ex-mayor: Good schools produce good citizens
I read with interest your news story on June 9, "Middle school project may be tough to sell." The story concerns the anticipated request of the Red Bank Board of Education for public support for a bond issue to renovate the middle school at Harding Road in Red Bank. The Harding Road school is one…
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Riverfest is good. Let’s make it great
Riverfest was a rousing success again. The music was great, the weather held up, and we had a wonderful crowd. This was my first Riverfest as a Monmouth County resident. I very much enjoyed it, but I have a suggestion for the future. Red Bank is known throughout the region to be a progressive community.…
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Circuses are no fun for the animals
Next time you go to the circus, take a look at how the animals are behaving. Notice if they look like they’re enjoying themselves. I’d be willing to bet they’re not. Animals who perform in circuses are treated very poorly. Most of them were taken from their families, in the wild, at a young age…
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Gun violence extending to pets
Quite a sad thing happened on my street last week. I found one of my pet cats lying in the driveway with a badly broken leg, the victim of a BB gunshot wound. After taking her to Red Bank Animal Hospital for treatment, and thanking God for the care they could give her, I came…
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Praise for Preserve Rumson; plea to Parents for property
Dr. Margaret Meade once said: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." The Preserve Rumson group is a living example of this famous quotation and how a small group of people can make a difference in their community. As…
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Car Wash helps out
Knollwood School students in Fair Haven raise money for a local family in need by washing cars last weekend.
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Thanks for cultural experience
Through this letter I would like to thank the people of the Tinton Falls community and everyone at Monmouth Regional High School very, very much for the outstanding kindness and helpfulness with which you treated me during my stay here as a high school foreign exchange student. I am well aware of the additional work…
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Aid only a drop in the bucket for flood of school tax hike amy byrnes walsack The Hub
Aid only a drop in the bucket for flood of school tax hike amy byrnes walsack The Hub SEA BRIGHT — Mayor Gregory Harquail announced that the borough has received a $40,000 extraordinary aid grant from the state to help offset the 19-cent increase in the tax rate from the skewed division of next year’s…
