Monthly Archives: October 2006

How close is next week's mayoral election in Red Bank looking? Well, there are no polls that we know of. So redbankgreen devised its own measure. We call it the Electometer, a count of yard signs touting the candidates: Council...

Art lovers with an appetite for Americana can get two slices of the apple pie beginning this weekend at the Beacon Fine Arts Gallery, with the arrival of a show of works by Ted Jeremenko and Nick Berger. Jeremenko's work...

After 10 years in business, Linda Celler shut down her Enchanted Evenings bridal salon and boutique at 97 Broad Street last week. redbankgreen found Celler in the empty store Friday, accompanied only by a shelf of shoes, as she awaited...

The elusive nature of place, and especially of new destinations, is the subject of a show of 18 photographs by Andi Monick that opens Friday night at the McKay Gallery. What links all the images in the show, called "TRANSITion:...

Red Bank officials past and present would be well advised to scope out the excruciatingly limited parking options in downtown Freehold, because they could be spending a lot of time in the county seat, thanks to former Red Bank parking...

In the second of three excerpts from our interviews with Pasquale Menna and John Curley, the mayoral candidates size each other up. And, as always, the shadow of Mayor Ed McKenna looms. redbankgreen will have one more excerpt on Nov....

The three-D stainless-steel letters spelling out the name of a now-departed business was, perhaps, a dead giveaway for last week's entry. Which probably explains why an unusual number of readers got it. But once again, the fleet-fingered Dylan Barlett got...

NJ Transit is adding a new express train to New York along the North Jersey Coast line next week, according to an agency news release. The new run will leave Long Branch at 6:30a and stop in Little Silver, Red...

"We got it for twelve grand," Ralph Marra shouted into his cellphone. "Just me and you!" Marra, of Rumson, had a finger in one ear as he struggled to hear over the celebratory din within the Sickles Market greenhouse last...

Joel McFadden of Joel McFadden Designs on White Street talks about his use of computer-aided jewelry design during a fundraising event for the Two River Theater Company held Sunday at Teak restaurant on Monmouth Street. Ten percent of the store's...

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Most Saturdays of the year, 21-year-old Erin Ryan of Belmar stands outside LJ’s Total Man/Today’s Woman clothing store on Broad Street, doing what she calls “promotional modeling,” talking up the merchandise to shoppers. But when it gets cold enough to...

A dozen new metered parking spaces were created along West Front Street this week, the result of efforts by retailers who complained about inadequate parking near their businesses and decided to do something about it, according to Tricia Rumola, Executive...

The Red Bank Public Library is closing for up to four weeks starting Monday as part of its $1.6 million renovation project. That means no book-borrowing, of course—and a break for anyone with books due for return during the closing....

Democratic mayoral candidate Pasquale Menna has acknowledged that mailed campaign literature used to attack his opponent, John Curley, contained made-up newspaper excerpts, according to today's Asbury Park Press. "It was an error on the campaign's part. We didn't do it...

Is Red Bank riding a surge of prosperity, poised to begin spreading its commercial and cultural riches beyond the downtown to the West Side? Or has development run amok, altering the town’s small-town character for the worse, and sticking residents...

It's a sad tale, or so we imagine, of a tree limb that grew too close to a wire, and then around the wire, and then became orphaned, clinging to the wire as the tree from which it grew was...

Our apologies, Shrewsbury, for thinking of you only as an uber-suburb. This is not the kind of experience we're used to having within your staid environs. But it seems you do have the capacity to surprise, you cheeky bedroom community,...

Final figures aren't yet in, but the sixth annual Red Bank International Film Festival, held last weekend, attracted a record number of moviegoers from all over the tri-state region, says Marc Leckstein, president of the Freedom Film Society, the festival...

Lengthy sentences were imposed last week on two Lakewood men convicted in a 2003 robbery and beating at Katsin's Pharmacy on Shrewsbury Avenue. One of the assailants was sentenced to 40 years in prison, and his accomplice got 16 years....