Category Archives: Education

A milestone passed enroute to Nevada. (Photo by Tim Hathaway) After a two-day layover forced by illness, father and son Elmer and Jeff Jackson were back in the saddle this week, topping their first mountain and crossing their first state...

A 22-year-old River Street man shot and killed himself at the Red Bank Primary School after calling police to say he was suicidal last night, authorities say. Peter Warshaw, first assistant Monmouth County prosecutor, tells the Asbury Park Press that...

Steep elevations and heat proved to be major challenges in the first week of Elmer and Jeff Jackson's cross-country bike ride. At left, Jeff copes with fatigue. Elmer and Jeff Jackson's 'No Regrets' fundraising bike ride across America was slowed...

Elmer and Jeff Jackson at the fog-wrapped Golden Gate Bridge as they prepared to start their ride yesterday. (Photos by Tim Hathaway.) The father-and-son pair Elmer and Jeff Jackson completed the first 20 miles yesterday of what we're now told...

Elmer Jackson poses at left with Kevin the UPS guy and the bikes that finally arrived in San Francisco Monday. In photo above, that's Jeff Jackson in foreground with, from left, Ron (no last name available), Elmer, Elmer's sister, Joyce...

The Red Bank Primary School was the colorful setting Friday night for the annual International Night, and this year's food-and-culturefest was another sellout, with 320 tickets sold, organizers tell redbankgreen. Click images to enlarge.

In the show: an oil on canvas, above left, by Jasmin Jackson, 17; another oil, top right, by Anastasia Yakovlena, 11; and a pastel by Zack Longo, 16. (Click to enlarge.) Better known as the go-to source for goofball extendable...

A product of Red Bank schools herself, Pat Moss is this year's teacher of the year at the primary school. (Photos by Jim Willis) Ask Pat Moss what she enjoys about teaching, and there's no hesitation on her end. "I...

Students at the Red Bank Charter School wear uniforms, and not just once a century. The notion of requiring students at Red Bank's primary and middle schools is under consideration by the school board, today's Asbury Park Press reports. After...

Awards host Joe Piscopo says he was saved by high school theater. It's the local high school equivalent of... well, just call them the Basies. The Count Basie Awards, to be precise, an annual set of honors recognizing outstanding achievement...

Ten-year-old Nick Piescor of Middletown trades licks with the Marshall Tucker Band on stage at the Count Basie in March. By TOM CHESEK As hard-touring, highway-tested veterans of the album-rock era, The Marshall Tucker Band has logged enough mileage in...

Students and parents gathered yesterday evening at the Markham Place School in Little Silver to leave tributes to Don Merce, the school's 58-year-old principal, who was killed in a car accident earlier in the day on Oceanport Avenue in Oceanport....

Terence Wilkins The Red Bank school board last night announced, and accepted, the resignation of the Terence Wilkins as middle school principal, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The action came a week after Wilkins was indicted on arson and insurance...

Some pix from Saturday's Cinco de Mayo celebration at the Red Bank Charter School. (Click to enlarge.) Email this story

Terence Wilkins, the Red Bank Middle School principal indicted earlier this week in an alleged arson and insurance fraud scheme, pleaded not guilty during his arraignment in an Essex County courtroom today, the Asbury Park Press reports. Wilkins was indicted...

Harriers from Red Bank Catholic hoof it through downtown Red Bank yesterday afternoon. Yesterday's cool temperatures and brilliant skies are expected to give way to on-and-off showers today through Monday, according to the National Weather Service, which serves up this...

Principal Terence Wilkins Red Bank Middle School Principal Terence Wilkins has been indicted by an Essex County grand jury in connection with a scheme to have his leased car stolen and torched, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. From the...

Surrounded by classmates from the Red Bank Middle School and watched by a standing-room audience, fifth-grader Jorge Banavides introduces a slide show about the threats of global warming at last night's borough council meeting. Eighth-grader Samantha Riordan also made a...

The Red Bank Board of Education last night ratified a five-year employment contract with Superintendent Laura Morana that will pay her $155,000 this year, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The pact includes annual four-percent raises. It replaces a three-year...

redbankgreen chanced up this scrap of paper lying in the grass at Meadow Ridge Park in Rumson over the weekend. Maybe the planet was trying to tell us something? Well, many people are listening, of course. Tonight, at the Red...