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HEADING TO A LITTLE PINK HOUSE, PERHAPS

Red Bank School of Rock manager Janet Wheeler tells us she was taking a photo of her studio’s Pink Bank finery Wednesday when this vehicle drove by unexpectedly. (Click to enlarge)

RACING SCANDAL SPREADS TO RED BANK

Video purporting to show cars racing to a Ferrari rally in Red Bank in 2010. (Warning: crude language. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD An explosive scandal alleging that New Jersey State Police led a high-speed caravan of luxury cars down the Garden State Parkway to Atlantic City last month took a twist Monday [...]

A LITTLE LAST-MINUTE HIBERNATING

An unidentified man took a  snooze in the sun in downtown Little Silver Monday as temperatures rose into the 70s on the last day of winter. Partly sunny skies may leave the first day of spring less conducive to sunning, though temperatures will rise to about 68 degrees, according to the Weather Channel. (Click to [...]

BACK TO THE ARCHIVE

Stumbling on this scene in downtown Red Bank Monday night was like a trip back into the not-too-distant reaches of the redbankgreen archive, as Chris LoBue of CLB Photography shot photos of Jim Caroll’s Back to the Future car for an ad for Ken Kalada’s Yestercades – three businesses that have been featured in these [...]

MENNA: CLOCK TICKING ON PARKING WAIVER

By JOHN T. WARD A measure to boost business development in downtown Red Bank has had its intended effect and should probably end this summer, Mayor Pasquale Menna tells redbankgreen. The temporary ordinance repeal, adopted in August, 2010, has helped spark a burst of activity so strong that “we may have a parking deficiency again [...]

MIDDLETOWNER BACKS CAR INTO THE FUTURE

Jim Carroll in his ‘Back to the Future’ car. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Jim Carroll had just pulled his car out of his Middletown garage when a neighbor drove by, shouting in his direction, “One point twenty-one jiggawatts!” It’s the kind of thing you get when you own a stainless steel vehicle [...]

HOUSE, TWO CARS VANDALIZED IN RUMSON

Rumson police say two picture windows on a home and the windshields of two cars parked elsewhere were reported smashed by rocks overnight from Tuesday into Wednesday morning. Authorities are investigating possible links to a vandalism spree overnight that left seven or eight vehicles with smashed windshields in Red Bank and Fair Haven.

VANDALS SMASH CARS IN TWO TOWNS

Two of the vehicles struck overnight on East Bergen Place in Red Bank. The one below was parked on the street at the time it was attacked. (Click to enlarge) [Editor's note: See the update to this story added shortly after 2 pm Wednesday, January 18.] By JOHN T. WARD Motorists in two area towns [...]

IN RED BANK, MAKING A LOT OF A LITTLE

Long the home of a car dealership and later approved for an office building, the parcel is now the site of a valet-only parking lot. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD After 15 years as a vacant eyesore, a property at a gateway to Red Bank has been transformed into a spiffy new… parking [...]

OH, DEER

redbankgreen came upon this dead deer on the edge of Meadow Ridge Park in Rumson on Monday. Borough officials who removed the carcass surmised that it was struck by a car elsewhere and made its way into the wooded area between the park and a adjoining neighborhood, where it died. (Click to enlarge)

STORE CONVERSION PLAN RAISES CONCERNS

The owner of the Welsh Farms store hopes to turn it into a 7-Eleven open around the clock. Nearby homeowner Sharon Hawthorn, below, is rallying opponents. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD East Side residents are gearing up for a showdown over a plan to turn the East Front Street Welsh Farms store into [...]

O’SCANLON SEES RED OVER RED-LIGHT CAMS

A video posted on YouTube last month by a red-light-camera vendor has drawn fire from a local legislator. By JOHN T. WARD Does the above video support the need for red-light cameras? Posted by camera systems vendor American Traffic Solutions on YouTube in late December, the video is apparently meant to suggest the need for [...]

RED BANK PICKS NEW PAY-TO-PARK SYSTEM

A video explaining the multi-space pay technology that will replace single-head meters, like the one below, in the English Plaza lot.  (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD It’s “time expired” for racing to beat a $38 parking ticket in downtown Red Bank, officials said Wednesday night. Say hello to “multi-space, revenue controlled” parking technology, [...]

MOTORIST, 90, OK AFTER ACCIDENT

A minivan ended up on its side and at least one person had to be mechanically extricated after an accident on Newman Springs Road near Henry Street in Shrewsbury around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. An official account of events was not immediately available, but the vehicle appeared to have struck a fire hydrant, which was knocked off [...]

FAIR HAVEN SUNOCO CLOSES

The River Road station will be boarded up until Sunoco can find another tenant, says the departing gasoline dealer. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD After 20 years, Rich Bercaw has pulled down the bay doors for the last time at his Sunoco gasoline and service station on River Road in Fair Haven. Unable [...]


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