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Monthly Archives: July 2009

BOONDOCKS REVIVES WATERFRONT DINING

Scenes from a recent Tuesday night at Boondocks. That’s owner Kelly Ryan at upper left with Mike Harper and Megan Prenderville. At upper right is chef Chris Kelber; lower right, the blackened grouper platter. (Click to enlarge) Think of it as waterfront access for the rest of us. Anyone familiar with Red Bank’s northern edge [...]

BOROUGH WEBSITE MAKES QUIET DEBUT

The new Red Bank government website hit the Internet this morning. Officials caution that this is a soft launch, and that they’re still working out a number bugs and tweaking the site.

TWOS AND THREES ON THE COURT & BEYOND

The new Future Buccaneers Basketball League wrapped up its first summer season at Red Bank Regional High Thursday night. The league, for incoming seventh- and eighth-graders, consists of boys’ and girls’ teams built in equal numbers of players from Red Bank, Little Silver and Shrewsbury — RBR’s sending districts. Each team had coaches from at [...]

HERE COME DA FUZZ

Brace yourselves for ecstasy, peach lovers. August in New Jersey means great, lightly fuzzed spheres of sweet, juicy peaches. And we’ve got word on a couple of events meant to put you in a fruit frenzy.

JUDGE: DON’T MAKE THE BOY CHOOSE

A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has rejected a request that 9-year-old Sean Goldman be asked to choose whether he wants to stay in that country or return to Tinton Falls with his natural father, the Associated Press reports today. The decision marks a victory, if only a partial one, in David Goldman’s years-long custody battle [...]

COMMUNITY CENTER PLANS SEPTEMBER DEBUT

Sisters Violet, 14, and Yanna Preston, 17, are the first members of the planned community center and will be trained as recruiters. That’s center director Robert Taylor in the background. (Click to enlarge) Growing up, Yanna and Violet Preston spent countless hours at the Count Basie Learning Center on Drs. James Parker Boulevard in Red [...]

WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?

This week’s Where Have I Seen This commingles our weekly appetite for the visual details of our community with a fascination over the endless recycling of the English language. ‘Comingle,’ by the way, appears not to be a misspelling; according to the online version of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, there’s a precendent for rendering it with [...]

IN oRBit: ONE ITALIAN TRIO (FOR HERE)

Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit presents the view from the Idiot Spot — the name that standup comedians apparently have for when they’re booked into performing the middle set on a three-comic program. Actually, Dom Irrera doesn’t mind being the lunchmeat on the standup sandwich — not when he’s playing the Count Basie Theatre for the first time [...]

L.S. COPS NAB SNAKE IN THE GRASS

Officer Pete Gibson, left, and Sgt. Martin Scherzinger with the yellow rat snake they caught in a yard in Little Silver earlier today. (Photo courtesy of Little Silver P.D.) Police in sleepy old Little Silver had an unexpected encounter this morning when they answered a call and found a yellow rat snake in a resident’s [...]

SIP ONE, PURL TWO

Red Bank’s knitters sure know how to have a good time. Longtime redbankgreen readers may recall our March 2007 feature story about Wooly Monmouth, the Monmouth Street knitting-supply store that doubles as an Algonquin roundtable of sorts for the pointy-needle set. It’s a place where, one night a week,  food, conversation and the occasional bottle [...]

MORE 4-WAY STOPS PLANNED

Four-way stops would be created at the intersections of Pearl and Chestnut streets and one block north, at Pearl and Oakland streets. Encouraged by the four-way stop created earlier this year at Bridge Avenue and Chestnut Street, Red Bank is planning a couple of additional foursomes. Mayor Pasquale Menna nudged the idea into gear at [...]

IN oRBit: WALKING WITH MR. LEE

Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit spotlights an exclusive interview with Will Lee, a familiar face to millions as the lanky bass player of The Late Show with David Letterman lo these many years. Red Bankers know Mr. Lee equally as well for his work as co-founder and co-frontman of  The Fab Faux, those wondrous WannaBeatles who have become frequent-flyer [...]

‘CONTROVERSY COVE’ DEBATE CONTINUES

Volunteers digging out invasive plants during a cleanup of the riverfront property in May. Today’s Asbury Park Press takes another look at the tug-of-war over Red Bank’s tentatively-named Maple Cove that’s been going on for more than a year. The dispute, which has pitted boaters and environmentalists against the borough government, has  centered on what [...]

IN oRBit: RACHEL, HANY…AND BRUUUUCE!

Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit confirms what you’ve heard — Bruce is back at the Basie, tonight only! We’re talking Bruce Hornsby, of course — who did you think, Bruce Cockburn? — and those who’ve followed his career past the platinum 1980s know to expect nothing less than the unexpected from this ever-evolving, self-challenging captain of the Steinway [...]

CAUSE OF LINE FIRE SOUGHT

Wires above the Red Bank Armory Ice Complex show the effects of a fire that melted their insulation this morning. A crew from Jersey Central Power & Light is out on Chestnut Street in Red Bank this morning seeking the cause of a fire that burned the insulation off a two-block length of electrical lines. [...]


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