Monthly Archives: January 2007

The top two people at the Red Bank Parks & Recreation Department, whose names were curiously absent from the borough council reappointments list on Jan. 1, have gotten the seal of approval to remain in their positions. Director Bob Evans...

After just a year in Trenton, Red Bank's Jennifer Beck has announced she'll try to leap from the Assembly to the state Senate in November. According to a story in the Asbury Park Press, Beck said she'll run for the...

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A Jersey City police officer who lives in Middletown, already facing DUI charges arising from a car crash on the Pulaski Skyway, surrendered to police this morning in connection with the death of 2 1/2-year-old boy as result of the...

An explosion and fire in a hunting trailer in Upper Freehold injured a Red Bank man over the weekend, according to a report in today's Asbury Park Press. Raymond Mass was in critical condition Sunday at Helene Fuld Medical Center...

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Red Bank resident Jack Westlake, former president of the Monmouth County Board of Taxation, was sentenced to three months in federal prison and seven months home confinement Thursday for tax evasion. Westlake, 76, of Ambassador Drive in the Elk Ridge...

One's an ultra-urbane purveyor of high-fashion eyewear displayed in a store so spacious that a visitor cannot help but marvel at the empty acreage between the walls. It goes by the delicate name of Chic Optique. The proprietor has a...

VINCENT J. FAIELLA RED BANK SURPLUS 16 WALLACE STREET I've been here four months. We were in Brooklyn for 79 years — Reliable Naval Tailoring Co. I'm third-generation. I've been living in Little Silver for 15 years. I was born...

It can be feast or famine here in the land of 'Where.' You'll recall that our last entry — showing the brick facade around the JCP&L substation in Fair Haven, aka the "building dickey" — brought an unprecedented number of...

Rita Lemole may have left her lifelong digs in Monmouth County, but her fellow instructors and other friends from the Community YMCA in Red Bank haven't forgotten her. Lemole, formerly of Middletown and Atlantic Highlands, taught aerobics, spin, Pilates and...

Kaye Ernst wants Grace Cangemi to succeed her on the Borough Council. But will Mayor Pasquale Menna and his Democratic majority risk giving the tailwind of incumbency to a Republican who came within a couple of dozen votes of winning...

Today's Asbury Park Press has a story about the difficult rescue of an intoxicated, 25-year-old man who jumped off the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge early Saturday morning to impress a woman he was on a date with. It didn't work: the...

In a move that stunned her council colleagues, Kaye Ernst Monday night announced that she's resigning and moving to Pennsylvania after little more than a year on the Borough Council. One of two Republicans on the six-member governing body, Ernst...

The ingredients are compelling, to say the least. There's a handsome West Side school building built in 1912 with great bones, but nestled in a neighborhood that sorely needs fresh economic and aesthetic blood. There's a high-profile architectural firm, one...

Hovnanian Enterprises, the publicly-traded homebuilder that last year moved its corporate headquarters to the heart of Red Bank from Middletown, is scaling back its ambitions in the borough, according to a published report. GlobeSt.com, a real estate industry publication, says...

The owner of a now-defunct auto body shop on Pearl Street in Red Bank was the ringleader of an alleged insurance scam that led to federal indictments yesterday of 11 people in three states, authorities contend. John Cotona, 38, of...

Utility-pole work on East Front Street outside Heritage Liquors and a stalled truck on West Front near the Front Street Trattoria created a one-two punch that brought today's midmorning traffic to a crawl. Email this story

Last time we wrote about Shrewsbury Manor, the 59-unit apartment complex just east of the Molly Pitcher Inn was being prepped for shut-down. The family-owned real estate development firm that built and still owns the complex was planning to replace...

Shellfishermen downriver in Sandy Hook Bay weren't entirely satisfied, but Red Bank and state officials say they're attacking elevated fecal coliform levels in the Navesink River with all they've got, and that it's working. The most effective tool at their...