Category Archives: Places of Worship

Norma Todd, a co-founder and director of Red Bank's Lunch Break, died Thursday at Riverview Medical Center. She was 87 years old and still served as titular director of the charity. Based on Drs. Parker Boulevard, Lunch Break is a...

Last week's 'Where' generated an interesting variety of responses from a surprisingly small geographic area, perhaps owing to the number of Victorian homes in central Red Bank. One reader thought the photo showed a detail of "Mrs. Pearl Dwek's house"...

Inspired by the challenges faced by a grandmother she never knew and her own mother, both of whom had Multiple Sclerosis, Barbara Sager has been walking. That is, once a year, she participates in a 10-kilometer walk for the Multiple...

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 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...

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...

Very Reverend Archpriest Serge Lukianov of St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church in Red Bank coaxes a reluctant pigeon to take wing during a blessing of the waters ceremony on the Navesink River Saturday. More pix below; click on 'em to...

Several dozen Red Bank residents gathered at the Mount Zion House of Prayer Saturday afternoon for discussion about ways to head off violence by young people. The event was prompted by the November shooting of two brothers at Montgomery Terrace,...

St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church on Pearl Street. By TOM CHESEK At 1p tomorrow, one of Red Bank's best-kept cultural secrets is scheduled to step into public view, bringing with it a millenium of tradition. A procession of worshippers and...

Last week's 'Where' was taken from the choir loft of the Calvary Baptist Church, and shows a detail of the magnificent tin ceiling that runs the length of the church's basilica. Alas, not a soul wrote in to identify it,...

Calvary Baptist Church on Bridge Avenue last night hosted a music-filled service last night to commemorate the ministry of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. whose birthdate, Jan. 15, is celebrated next week. Sponsored by the Greater Red Bank Ministers Association,...

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Volunteers do what they can at St. Anthony of Padua to help keep the needy from going hungry. Twice a week, a food pantry at the church gives out bagfuls of food to dozens of families, many of them Hispanic...

Showdown at 9a sharp Tuesday, right here. Incumbent 12th-district Assemblyman Mike Panter and his running mate, Amy Mallet, may have been aiming primarily at one of their Republican opponents last week with their suggestion of cronyism in the Fair Haven...

Rev. Dwight Crist Northington of Calvary Baptist Church on Bridge Avenue is featured in today's Asbury Park Press, where he talks about the double lung transplant that saved his life earlier this year. From the article: A year ago, the...

PoliticsNJ has coverage today of yesterday's debate between 12th-district Senator Ellen Karcher, a Democrat, and her GOP challenger, Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck, at the Monmouth Reform Temple in Tinton Falls. Writer Max Pizarro has this scene-setter: The place was standing room...

Incumbent 12th-district Assemblyman Mike Panter of Shrewsbury and his running mate, Amy Mallet of Fair Haven, are questioning how Republican challenger Declan O'Scanlon got the contract to negotiate the recently concluded Fair Haven cell tower deal, today's Asbury Park Press...

Last Friday, the 25 students of the West Side Christian Academy in Red Bank took a field trip to Eastmont Orchards in Colts Neck for some apple-picking. Over the weekend, the apples they selected were transformed into more than a...

By LINDA G. RASTELLI Fair Haven's search for a solution to its dropped-calls cellular woes ended earlier this week with deals that brought in more cash than borough officials had expected. Now, Mayor Mike Halfacre hopes to use to the...

Today's Asbury Park Press reports that the cell tower planned for Fair Haven won't be a giant faux tree or, as reporter Larry Higgs puts it, won't resemble a common bathroom cleaning implement. Borough Planning Board members only had two...