Monthly Archives: September 2006

Shrewsbury police are seeking the public's help in solving a hit-and-run involving a pedestrian from Red Bank earlier this week. Angelica Serrano, 23, suffered a broken pelvis and leg and facial injuries when she was struck by a vehicle shortly...

The Holmdel Independent has a story about last weekend's cow-pie bingo fundraiser at a farm in Middletown, which we advanced last week. Turns out the cow, named Mary, was in no rush to drop a load. A DJ tried playing...

"I'm pretty far to the left," Al Strasburger told us with a note of caution over the phone the other day, before we met him at his Oakland Street home for an interview. Looking back, we now see what a...

Guy Johnson of the Antique Center of Red Bank steamrolled the competition and was the first to identify last week's 'Where' as the railroad trestle that crosses West Front Street near Bridge Avenue. But the most compelling reply came from...

We stumbled upon a terrific event Wednesday at The Woman's Club of Red Bank. It was the kind of gathering that sharply underscores the borough's appeal as a cultural hub, one that can compete with the best of them. Reed...

The Southies got the crowd they wanted—and the startled attention of Red Bank's governing body—as an overflow throng descended on the Borough Council Monday night to demand a halt to rising property taxes. Responding to a recent leafletting campaign launched...

The state of New Jersey has apparently had it with Sea Bright beach club owners—and the borough, too—over the question of just who owns the beach. Using a pair of court rulings as leverage, acting Attorney General Anne Milgram today...

There's never a blade of grass out of place, it seems, at the Mac Testing & Consulting facility on the corner of Maple Avenue and Reckless Place. The green-shuttered white building, the verdant lawn and the flowerbeds surrounding the educational...

It's about to start raining celluloid hereabouts, metaphorically speaking, with the return of the Red Bank International Film Festival next month. And for any movie fan with an itch to write, this can be a season of exquisite torment. Who...

At this point, it's a far cry from Proposition 13, the landmark 1970s effort that resulted in constitutional limits on property-tax increases in California. And it's barely a whisper compared to the noise made by the toilet-paper flaunting brigades who...

As predicted by the Star-Ledger's Josh Margolin in June, Rumson resident James R. Zazzali, Associate Justice on the state Supreme Court, is Gov. Jon Corzine's choice to succeed Chief Justice Deborah Poritz upon her expected retirement next month, according to...

Something surprising happened when we photographed John Soucheck showing off his championship race walking form at Red Bank Regional High School recently: every series of pictures we took caught Soucheck moving in nearly perfect sync with the motor-driven camera shutter....

A man's home is his castle, but if he's got a jones for medieval architecture and a lot of ironstone lying around, who's to say he can't fill his yard with castles, too? Last week's 'Where' featured a pair of...

Only a few months ago, the Red Bank Charter School appeared to be on the brink of financial disaster. Now it's on a hot streak of fiscal good fortune, one that continued yesterday. Last month, the state Department of Education...

Jack Westlake, the Monouth Couty Board of Taxation president who last week pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion charges, will quit his part-time county post, the Asbury Park Press reports, citing Westlake's lawyer. Westlake, whom the Press says is a...

A Rumson man has been charged with trying to lure a person he'd been told was a 6-year-old girl for a sexual encounter in a Bergen County hotel, according to the Star-Ledger. Lee Devinsky, a 35-year-old advertising executive, was arrested...

Here's an event the kids won't be able to stop talking about for hours afterward: the Middletown Reformed Church is holding a cow pie bingo fundraiser this weekend. That's right, cow pies. Whichever numbered square in a 500-square-foot grid Elsie...

Here's a feud that must make for some chilly encounters on the SeaStreak Ferry gangplank. The Asbury Park Press has a story today on an escalating four-year battle between a couple of Wall Street bigs with adjoining estates on West...

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Million-dollar homes are a growing factor in the glut of properties for sale in Monmouth County, according to today's Asbury Park Press. The Press reports that the number of Monmouth County homes for sale priced at or above the $1...