Category Archives: Mind & Body

Scenes from the 15th running of the George Sheehan Classic in downtown Red Bank Saturday. Click thumbnails to enlarge. Race results are here. Email this story

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...

Swimmers emerge from the Navesink River, heading right to finish the 1.2-mile race and left to continue on for the second lap in the 2.4-mile challenge. Dozens of competitive swimmers took to the Navesink River at Victory Park in Rumson...

At the wheel, and in the pink, on Monmouth Street. Her name may be bland — Jennifer Bland — but her ride is anything but. redbankgreen spotted this glitter-pink sports car rolling through downtown Red Bank Wednesday afternoon. And attuned...

Today's Star-Ledger has a feature on Little Silver resident Barbara Sager, a yoga instructor who specializes in clients with Multiple Sclerosis and other conditions that limit their mobility. redbankgreen readers may recognize the name or the face: in March, we...

Jim Frechette in his Shrewsbury Avenue workshop. (Photos by Jim Willis) Longtime readers of redbankgreen — or those who've discovered the pleasure of exploring our archive — may recognize the name Jim Frechette. When we first encountered him, Frechette was...

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...

Oh, brother: this one's headed to Freehold. The Red Bank council has authorized Borough Attorney Tom Hall to file a suit against the Community YMCA over that organization's plan to sell the Children's Cultural Center, redbankgreen has learned. At issue,...

The white building at far right and other property is available for a community center, says Rev. Terrence K. Porter. The push for the creation of a Red Bank community center has a new element to it: an offer of...

Dr. Julian Paul Keenan speaks at the Red Bank Humanists Darwin Day event, held Sunday at the Red Bank Charter School. In honor of international Darwin Day, the Red Bank Humanists hosted a lecture yesterday by Julian Paul Keenan, Director...

After five years and a massive infusion of capital, the Community YMCA has put the Children's Cultural Center at 51 Monmouth Street up for sale, redbankgreen has learned. Asking price: $2.55 million. That's $145,000 less than the non-profit sank into...

You will be forgiven, in a secular sense at least, for not knowing that there's something called 'Darwin Day.' A dozen years ago, there was only one known celebration of Charles Darwin's birthday — Feb 12, 1809. Now, if we...

Rev. Elmer Jackson, left , and his son, Jeff, in training at WOW in Middletown. By TIM HATHAWAY Before having open heart surgery in June 2006, Rev. Elmer Jackson met a bicyclist who had already been through the procedure. "He...

Tuition and fees are about to climb at Brookdale Community College, the Asbury Park Press reports, adding to student costs that are already the state's highest among community colleges. From the story: Students will see a 4.9 percent tuition increase...

The shuttered playground at Marine Park. The Marine Park playground will get all new equipment and fencing under a plan greenlighted last night by the Red Bank Borough Council. Installation of the new gear will start in March, Parks &...

Dr. Philip Eatough, the Rumson pain-management physician facing a slew of charges related to drug prescribing, should be allowed to continue operating his Middletown practice in the interim, but under strict limits, a state panel has recommended. Today's Star-Ledger reports...

Dr. Philip Eatough, the Rumson physician who faces criminal charges for alleged overprescribing painkillers, got some key support today at hearing over the fate of his medical license, the Asbury Park Press reports. At a hearing before the New Jersey...

A Rumson physician who was indicted in October on federal drug charges is facing a possible loss of his medical license, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners took up the administrative case of...

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