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ANOTHER POWER TO BE RECKONED WITH

A sign in Sea Bright warns visitors that a hurricane may threaten beachgoers later this week. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI This week’s forecast: hot and sunny with a chance of Earl. A very good chance of Earl, actually. Be warned, beachgoers: the entire East Coast is on alert for Hurricane Earl, which is [...]

CHESS CLUB BRINGS YOUNG, OLD TO RED BANK

Two players compete for a grand prize Saturday in Monmouth Chess Club’s annual open championship. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Anyone out there who knew that Red Bank has a chess school and club raise your hand. Anybody who knew Red Bank has a USCF-rated chess school and club keep [...]

OUTAGE CAUSES TRAFFIC, CLOSURES, BEER

A Fair Haven police officer directed traffic Monday afternoon at a light at the Fair Haven-Little Silver border. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI A malfunction at a Tinton Falls substation is believed to be the cause of yesterday’s countywide power outage, according to the Asbury Park Press. Locally, power started [...]

POWER OUTAGE HITS REGION

Electrical service went out in much of Monmouth County late Monday afternoon, according to JCP&L’s outage map. Power appeared to return to portions of Red Bank at around 5:45p after a 75-minute outage. Traffic lights were returning to operation by 6p, according to police.

NYPOST: RUMSON FEELS THE PINCH

An abundance of ‘for sale’ signs caught the newspaper’s attention. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The New York Post has been hanging around Rumson, and if you saw Sunday’s edition, you noticed the dispatch wasn’t as cheery as the recent flurry of features on the area. Instead, New York City’s [...]

FORMER R-FH TEACH FILLS SCHUNDLER’S SPOT

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI A veteran educator with local roots will fill Bret Schundler’s spot as head of the state education department, a post he commanded less than a year before being fired Friday. Rochelle Hendricks, who got her start teaching in the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional School District, got the nod from Governor Chris Christie to [...]

ACCIDENTAL PHOTOGRAPHER: GETTING BUGGY

OK, we’re no entomologists here, but redbankgreen’s accidental photographer saw this mantis-looking fella chilling on a set of bicycle handlebars the other day and had to snap a pic. Anybody out there know what this particular insect is called?

DAWKINS DROPS PRICE BY 10 MILLION

Pete Dawkins reduced the selling price for his Rumson estate, seen here in 2008, from $29.9 million to $19.5. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Seems there is something Pete Dawkins can’t do bigger and better than everybody else on the planet: find a buyer for his mega-estate at a price that could fund a [...]

JOSEPH: 1 LEGEND, 1 COAT, MANY COLORS

Jody Joseph — just being Jody in this case — brings her tribute to Janis Joplin and Stevie Nicks to the Brookdale PAC stage for an ambitious encore, even as she readies her first concert of inspirational tunes this weekend in Shrewsbury. By TOM CHESEK In a 2009 interview that appeared on our satellite site [...]

STARTING TONIGHT: FAIR FAIR HAVEN

Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair gets started tonight and runs through September 4. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI For many, it’s the last shot at summer fun — a chance to scarf down cotton candy and hop into a bucket on the Ferris wheel. For most, though, Andy Schrank says it’s [...]

WINE TIME

Basil T’s sommelier Bryant Rallo talks wine at Basil T’s Wednesday night. (Photo courtesy of Preston Porter; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Dan Levine came for the red, but left with the white. It was worth the trip from Manalapan for Levine, an admitted fan of Victor Rallo’s wines. “I love his wine,” Levine [...]

M’TOWN WOMAN GETS ANIMAL ABUSE CHARGES

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI A woman from the Navesink section of Middletown was charged with animal abuse today, after allegedly dragging her dog down a street with her car, according to the Asbury Park Press. Stephanie Sciscione, of Locust Avenue, told authorities that her terrier was too dirty to put in her car, so instead dragged [...]

WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?

OK, we gave you a cupcake last week. The gazing pup and Bob Ross-like jeans were enough to get the Where folk out of the summer sun and back into our loving cyber arms to correctly ID the painting on the wall at Atlantic Glass on the corner of Maple Avenue and White Street in [...]

DWI CHECKS IN RED BANK TONIGHT

The Globe Hotel, Front Street, Red Bank. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Be careful with your brewskies, broskies. Red Bank police are doing DWI checks tonight, part of a state-wide “Over The Limit, Under Arrest” crackdown.

COPS WANT HELP FINDING BANK JOB SUSPECT

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Police are still looking for the man who robbed a Fair Haven bank last week, and now they’re asking for help from the public to get him. Details on the wig-wearing suspect, right, are lacking. Cops say the man is black and in his mid-20s or early-30s, wore jeans, a red zip-up [...]


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