Category Archives: Education

Cody Kasselman, as Belle, warms up her pipes for this week's opening. By TOM CHESEK It's a "tale as old as time" in the words of the Oscar-nominated song; an eternal bedtime-story blockbuster that's been adapted many times over —...

Belinda Dark signs in to vote at the Evergreen Terrace Community Room yesterday afternoon. Monmouth County voters approved school budgets in 74 percent of districts in yesterday's board elections, the Asbury Park Press reports today. Out of 54 budgets, 40...

Somebody with a wry appreciation for the so-called Golden Age of television has been throwing anonymous lifelines to Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High students who have both financial need and middling grades, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: Thanks...

Yesterday's lockdown at Rumson-Fair Haven High was prompted by a terroristic threat sent by a 17-year-old Ocean Township boy in an instant message to a 16-year-old female student, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The threat was neither sent to the...

Students at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School spent more than two hours this afternoon locked in classrooms while authorities investigated a security threat, redbankgreen has learned. The Asbury Park Press reported that the school entered into a 2 1/2-hour lockdown...

Stacey Liss, right, clinical supervisor at RBR's the Source, discusses plans for "Surviving the Teen Years" with Source coordinator Gilda Rogers, left, and parent Karen Lloyd, center. They'll go on the Internet, where they may unwittingly subject themselves to the...

For those recent high school and college grads wondering how to catch one last low-pressure summer, or those underemployed everybody-elses pining for a summer gig with lots of fresh air, this just in from deputy borough clerk Pam Borghi: Red...

The tax for the Red Bank Regional High School district will rise for Little Silver and Shrewsbury property owners and decline for those in Red Bank under the proposed $23.3 million budget up for a vote April 15, today's Asbury...

Bailey Taft, left, and Melissa Dominach with just a fraction of the gear they've collected for Red Bank athletic programs. (Photo courtesy of Margie Dominach) Each year, one student from every public middle and high school in Monmouth County is...

Kathi Cronin, Fair Haven schools superintendent and Mets fan. By LINDA G. RASTELLI Kathi Cronin, a Middletown native and Mater Dei grad, has two passions: public education and the New York Mets. "Hope springs eternal," she says, referring to the...

"Regionalization does not work for small communities. Period." That's how an op-ed piece by Sea Bright Mayor Maria Fernandes, writing in today's Asbury Park Press, begins. Her target: state-mandated formulas for apportioning costs among towns joined in regional school districts....

Melissa Dominach and Bailey Taft with Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna, left, and Councilman John Curley. Last month, redbankgreen featured Bailey Taft and Melissa Dominach, seventh-graders from the Knollwood School in Fair Haven who had launched a non-profit enterprise to...

By TOM CHESEK With his luxurious mane of silver hair, his Continental bearing, and his years of training in the most formidable academies of the former Soviet Union, Vladislav Kovalsky could be said to embody the very image of the...

The lawsuit that redbankgreen reported Red Bank officials had authorized over the Children's Cultural Center has not been filed, and the two sides are continuing to talk, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: The fingers of borough officials...

Following the lead of the Red Bank schools, Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School plans to introduce Chinese language study next fall, and will share a teacher in the effort with Red Bank Regional, the Asbury Park Press reports. From the...

Boarding the bus for Friday night's playoff game were, from left, Kerry Wilson and Katie Devin of Shrewsbury and Amanda Kohlbecker of Little Silver. How this story stayed under the media radar we have no idea. But the Red Bank...

Today, redbankgreen introduces 'DONE GOOD,' an occasional feature spotlighting individuals and organizations making a positive impact on their communities through volunteer efforts. For info on submitting items for consideration, see below. TONIGHT: RBR Hosts art auction The third annual charity...

Centennial logo design winner Alexis Holiday is a fourth-generation Red Banker. The winner of a contest for a logo to commemorate Red Bank's first hundred years is a 14-year-old Charter School student who only recently began dabbling in Adobe Photoshop,...

Red Bank voters will be asked to approve a local schools budget that increases the tax rate by a penny per $100 of property value, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The owner of a home assessed at the borough-average $404,627...

The Red Bank school district was among 170 statewide that received beef products involved in the nation's largest-ever meat recall, today's Star-Ledger reports. There's no word yet from the district about when the beef arrived here. Officials said the meat...