• Red Bank takes a step toward health and wellness

    Mayors Wellness Campaign includes walking club, ‘Biggest Loser’ challenge BY KRISTEN DALTON Staff Writer Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna, seen leading a neighborhood walk on National Night Out Against Crime in August 2010, will participate in a Mayor’s Walking Club as part of the borough’s participation in the statewide Mayors Wellness Campaign initiative aimed at…

  • Tinton Falls to amend budget, lower tax levy

    Grant funds, permit fees expected to cut levy to 1.89 percent BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer TINTON FALLS — Borough taxpayers received good news last week after Mayor Michael Skudera announced that new revenue sources would make it possible for the borough to lower the tax levy. Skudera said during the March 20 Borough Council meeting…

  • Earth Day fair, electronics recycling drive

    SHREWSBURY — The borough’s Environmental Commission will host an Earth Day fair and Electronics Recycling Drive onApril 21 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Shrewsbury Borough Hall. Open to the entire community, the “Healthy Planet, Healthy People” fair will feature demonstrations and handson activities for individuals, families and children, including exhibits on green products…

  • It’s one of those good news, bad news deals

    CODA GREG BEAN Here’s a statement I never thought I’d write: New Jersey has the most stringent anti-corruption laws in the nation, according to a recent study by State Integrity Investigation, working with the Center for Public Integrity, Global Integrity and Public Radio International. The long collaborative investigation of all 50 states found New Jersey…

  • Stop animal suffering: go vegan

    More than 440 animals, mostly pigs and cows, were recently burned alive in barn fires in Michigan, Ohio and New York. If you feel bad for these poor animals, please do something to help save other sentient farmed animals: go vegan. Approximately 10 billion animals are raised for food every year. Those who don’t suffer…

  • Left out in Little Silver

    The Hub’s March 22 story about the Little Silver kindergarten vote (Little Silver residents approve full-day kindergarten) said that the superintendent sent out a letter to parents, not everyone. Gee, why would they leave out everybody else who has to pay for it? What parent wouldn’t vote for it? Tom RoseLittle Silver

  • A tree falls in Fair Haven

    Last Thursday after months of deliberation, gnashing of teeth and meetings, the Fair Haven Planning Board approved an application for a builder named Robert Susser to remove a significant specimen tree in order to make way for the construction of a new home. Whoopee! Commerce! Susser’s lawyer, Brooks Von Arx, with help from paid experts,…

  • Morro Castle display at Shipwreck Museum

    OnApril 1 at the InfoAge Science History Learning Center and Museum at Camp Evans, Wall Township, a Morro Castle display will be officially opened for public view in the Shipwreck Museum. The display shows items recovered from the ill-fated liner that burned and came ashore atAsbury Park in 1934. One hundred and thirty-seven people died…

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