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BUY-IN ON NEW SEA BRIGHT BRIDGE ELUSIVE

February 28, 2012 – 9:26 am

Below, dozens of local residents turned out in Sea Bright Monday for a midday presentation of options for dealing with the “serious” condition of the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge. (Click to enlarge) By STACIE FANELLI Sixty years old, the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge over the Shrewsbury River is rapidly corroding, inadequate for today’s traffic loads and behind the [...]

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COPS: WHALER ‘RODE OVER’ VICTIM’S BOAT

July 26, 2011 – 6:59 am

Saturday night’s fatal boat collision occurred near Buoy 20, seen here from Rich Stavola’s Navesink River Road home, where authorities based their rescue operations. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI A combination of alcohol and speed led to the death of a 50-year-old Keansburg man in a late-night boating accident on the Navesink River Saturday, [...]

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COPS: BODY FOUND, BOAT DRIVER WAS DRUNK

July 24, 2011 – 12:24 pm

The command center in front of the mansion at 36 Northover Place in Middletown, where the victims of the boating accident came ashore, as seen at about 5 a.m. Sunday. (Click to enlarge) An Atlantic Highlands man was charged with drunk driving in the Navesink River accident that killed the lone passenger of the boat [...]

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FULL OF VODKA, COVERED IN BLOOD

June 7, 2011 – 11:54 am

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Drugs and alcohol dominate the Middletown police blotter this week, which includes at least two drunken driving arrests in which the drivers are alleged to have had open bottles of liquor in their cars and several arrests for possession of illegal meds and marijuana. The reports from Middletown Detective Sergeant Steve Dollinger [...]

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SHREWSBURY POLICE OFFICER DIES AT 58

April 25, 2011 – 1:37 pm

Shrewsbury Borough Hall has funeral bunting displayed in various locations after the loss of veteran officer Alan Morris. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Sergeant Allan Morris, a 25-year veteran of the Shrewsbury Police Department who was transitioning into retirement, passed away suddenly Friday. The cause is suspected to be of [...]

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GUN WAVER AMONG M’TOWN ARRESTEES

April 19, 2011 – 6:09 am

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI One man was arrested for waving a gun and threatening to use it, another was arrested for stealing from a food store and two were cuffed after a fight on Middletown Avenue. They’re all part of this week’s crime roundup provided by Middletown police.

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M’TOWN POLICE MAKE 5 WEEKEND ARRESTS

April 11, 2011 – 2:10 pm

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Middletown police made five arrests over the weekend, with incidents including two failed burglary attempts and somebody allegedly trying to lift candy, socks and lawn care products from a food store. Two others were picked up on active arrest warrants, police said.

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LOANS TARGETED TO BUYERS WHO WORK HERE

October 5, 2010 – 10:02 am

Tony Marchetta, executive director of the state Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, introduced the Live Where You Work Program in Red Bank Friday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna says all too often people hear that residents that are fleeing New Jersey for cheaper places to live. [...]

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SO LONG, SUMMER OF 2010

September 22, 2010 – 2:09 pm

The scene at Sea Bright public beach earlier this summer. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI With the astronomical phenomenon known as the autumn equinox occurring at 11:09p EDT tonight, fall begins, displacing the summer of 2010 into the archives of history. Around the Green, this summer was a hot one, [...]

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BIKERS’ BONANZA: A TRIO FOR TWO-WHEELERS

September 15, 2010 – 8:25 am

Riders assemble for the start of last year’s Tour de Fair Haven. The straightaways and sidestreets of the greater Green have been thinned — just barely — of peak-season traffic. The late summer sun starts inching for the door before the check arrives, just a little earlier each day. For hundreds of year-round residents and [...]

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LOCALS ARRESTED IN SEASTREAK TIX SCHEME

September 2, 2010 – 6:28 am

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Four men were arrested Wednesday for selling fake boarding tickets for the SeaStreak commuter ferry, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office said. Three of the men are locals, and all were charged with second-degree theft by deception, second-degree conspiracy, fourth-degree forgery and fourth-degree uttering a forged instrument.

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IN oRBit: FORNATALE’S ON FIRST

September 10, 2009 – 5:56 am

For the past four decades, Pete Fornatale has offered one of the most distinctive voices on New York radio as a disc jockey, interviewer and well-nigh legendary collector of oral history and creator of Mixed Bag Radio. Few observers of rock and roll history have written about the topic with as much passion and clarity. And [...]

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IN oRBit: BLINK, AND YOU’LL MISS IT

July 15, 2009 – 2:57 pm

Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit takes a short trip over to the baybreeze-kissed waterfront walkways of the Atlantic Highlands Municipal Marina, where this Saturday the Bayshore borough plays host to a uniquely arty cultural offering — one that’s nonetheless described by us as “more Mayberry than Manhattan.” Presented outdoors with an “old-fashioned hometown party” that [...]

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GOOD NEWS FOR MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE

September 30, 2008 – 7:22 am

Ferry commuters to Wall Street, besieged by blowback over the spreading-around-the-globe credit meltdown they helped create, will see a slight dip in the monthly fare charged by SeaStreak beginning tomorrow. Assuming, of course, that there still is a Wall Street…

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THEATER GONE INSIDE-OUT

July 11, 2008 – 12:34 pm

Here’s Noises Off star Glenn Jones (center) celebrating art and life with director Gary Shaffer (right). At left is actor Michael Kroll, who’s not in this show, but a frequent cohort of the others nonetheless. (Photo by Lauren Morris) By…

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