• Garden club meets on Oct. 10

    The Little Silver Garden Club will hold its first meeting of the season at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Woman’s Club at the intersection of Church Street and Rumson Road in Little Silver. Naturalist Rick Radis will give an illustrated presentation on “Native Orchids of New Jersey.” Radis is editor of New…

  • Rumson church to bless animals Oct. 6

    St. George’s-by-the-River Episcopal Church’s annual blessing of the animals will take place at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6, at Waterman Avenue in Rumson. Bring your leashed pet to be blessed at this rain-or-shine event. Everyone is welcome. For more information, visit www.stgeorgesrumson.org or call the church at 732-842-0596.

  • Women’s group hosts celebration

    EATONTOWN — The Northern Monmouth County Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) will celebrate the group’s 85th anniversary, honor local scholarship recipients and feature a special presentation by local physician Dr. Nina Seigelstein on Oct. 7 at the Eatontown Community Center. During the program, which is open to the public, the group…

  • Teams compete to design regional rebuilding plan

    By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer Dutch government official Henk Ovink (l) talks with Monmouth University faculty member Anthony MacDonald during a public forum for the Rebuild By Design competition at the Berkeley Hotel in Asbury Park on Sept. 18. KEITH HEUMILLER Renowned experts from across the globe toured Monmouth County last week with an eye…

  • Bridge replacement underway in Red Bank

    By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer Work has begun on the Hubbard Bridge replacement project in Red Bank. A new span will be built slightly to the north of the current bridge that connects the borough to Middletown. Hubbard Bridge will remain open to traffic until January 2015. KEITH HEUMILLER/STAFF RED BANK — After nine years…

  • Praise for Bean’s analysis of marijuana policy

    This letter is in response to Greg Bean’s column, “Gov. Christie is No Supporter of Medical Marijuana in New Jersey” (The Hub, Sept. 5). Thank you very kindly for writing a sensible, reasonable and fair account of Gov. Chris Christie’s obstructionist marijuana policy. Your word choice “recalcitrant” is perfect. The governor has a personal bias…

  • Politicians sowing seeds of destruction

    A long, long time ago, when I was an engineering student, I studied surveying. I never understood how a navigator at sea could stand on a pitching deck and line up the horizon with the sun while holding a sextant to his eye and turning the lever. It was once the only way to determine…

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  • GUEST COLUMN

    Newspapers are alive and well ROBERT M. WILLIAMS JR. I know of newspapers that kept their communities informed about clean water and shelter during terrible storms and disasters. I know of newspapers that exposed crooks, lost a lot of advertising from the crooks’ buddies and still put out a paper every week. I know of…

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