Monthly Archives: March 2009

Workers grade soil and lay sod at Red Bank's East Side Park Monday. The effort, which included the installation of several inches of clean topsoil, followed reports of soil contaminated with broken glass and other debris having been used at...

The wind sends a motorcyclist's hair flying as she crosses West Front Street in Red Bank on Monday. Tuesday looks to be a mild, less-windy day than Monday, the National Weather Service forecasts. The rest of the week, though, may...

This weekend brings the annual Garden State Film Festival to various points around Asbury Park, and today's oRBit has the rundown on the movies, the brand-new venues, first-look features and the special events, including a tribute to occasional Shore resident...

The center is to be housed at the corner of Drs. James Parker Boulevard and Bridge Avenue in a building that was once a bar and more recently served as the Count Basie Learning Center. Last week, after more than...

The Boss of Bards, that is — poet, critic, translator, essayist, educator and former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, whose international renown and Shore-guy cred surely make him the Springsteen of verse. (None of which begins to address that time...

Unedited entries from the Red Bank Police Department activity log for the week of March 21 to March 27, 2009. Theft occurring on W Front St on 3/21/2009, Victim reported that stolen from a display case were two sterling boxes,...

George Naeder outside Starbucks on March 18. A Red Bank man featured in a redbankgreen article last week about his dog's ability to attract the attention of women was arrested and charged with a sexual offense against a teenage girl,...

Mark Ginsberg, below right, will close his Art of Play store on Sunday, adding a vacancy next to the space that was home to the short-lived Nibus clothing store. After yearning most of last year for foot traffic into his...

Today's Red Bank oRBit takes it down to the Asbury Park Boardwalk, where a special screening of the documentary 'Dream of Life' brings Patti Smith to the stage of the Paramount Theater. There, the punk poet, rock icon and subject...

About 150 parents turned out at Red Bank Regional on Thursday night for the second annual 'Surviving the Teen Years' symposium. Ptl. Peter Gibson, school resource officer, above, was joined by counselors and other law enforcement personnel to talk about...

At Rumson-Fair Haven Regional Thursday night, the student environmental club hosted 'Enviropalooza,' a confab highlighting efforts to reverse the degradation of the planet. Seniors Melanie Daly and Emily O'Connor displayed their research on horseshoe crabs, above, while juniors Brittany Wheaton...

Contractors working on the midfield at Count Basie Fields earlier this week raked out contaminated soil from the same loads used at East Side Park, borough officials confirmed. Playing fields at Red Bank's East Side Park, where soil containing shards...

Some say the root problem is parking, while others say it's an imbalance in the store mix in favor of high-end goods and services. But whatever they identify as the cause of Red Bank's economic woes, downtown merchants agree that...

The dean of NJ stage critics — the Star-Ledger's Peter Filichia — has seen the future of regional theater, and her name is Isabel Wallace. As reported in today's Red Bank oRBit , the 9-year old fourth-grader from Little Silver...

We flummoxed one mayor and deked another last week. How often do you get to say that? Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre wrote in to say that both he and his otherwise Where-savvy son, Matthew, were stumped by the image....

Shane Bruno outside his new shop on West Front Street. Shane Bruno could use a shave. But give the guy a break. He's hunkering down with his girlfriend and partner, Patricia Gilmartin, as they hustle to open their first business...

Today's Red Bank oRBit brings news of a real treat for fans of Billie Holiday. Holiday Express/The Shirleys/Springsteen vocalist Layonne Holmes (right) takes the spotlight at Rumson's David Burke Fromagerie this Friday night only in a jazz-combo salute to the...

"We did it! We introduced a second consecutive budget lowering taxes. Folks at mtg only wanted to complain about leaf collection. Sigh." That's from a Twitter post late last night by Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre. And this is from...

Neighbors Marc Dostie, left, and Mark Halloran show off some of the debris found in soil laid down recently at East Side Park. Evidence of glass and ceramic shards in fill dirt installed recently in Red Bank's East Side Park...

Students at the Red Bank Primary School getting into the spirit of the day at the unveiling yesterday of new playground equipment. (Click to enlarge. Photos courtesy of Jim Willis)