  
POWER OUTAGE HITS REGION
Power appeared to return to portions of Red Bank at around 5:45p after a 75-minute outage. Traffic lights were returning to operation by 6p, according to police.  NYPOST: RUMSON FEELS THE PINCH
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The New York Post has been hanging around Rumson, and if you saw Sunday’s edition, you noticed the dispatch wasn’t as cheery as the recent flurry of features on the area. Instead, New York City’s oldest paper took notice of the higher-than-usual number of ‘for sale’ signs on borough lawns — particularly in front of a “glut of luxury homes,” an indication that writer Hilary Kramer said in her story lends a “surreal quality to the town.” Or as one unidentified resident quoted in the story says, “There’s a new class of citizens in Rumson: the formerly rich.”  FORMER R-FH TEACH FILLS SCHUNDLER’S SPOT
A veteran educator with local roots will fill Bret Schundler’s spot as head of the state education department, a post he commanded less than a year before being fired Friday. Rochelle Hendricks, who got her start teaching in the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional School District, got the nod from Governor Chris Christie to replace Schundler, who was ousted from the administration after failing to secure federal funds for education. Schundler and his cabinet lost out on coveted Race To The Top money because of a budget error, the Star-Ledger reported.  ACCIDENTAL PHOTOGRAPHER: GETTING BUGGY
OK, we’re no entomologists here, but redbankgreen’s accidental photographer saw this mantis-looking fella chilling on a set of bicycle handlebars the other day and had to snap a pic. Anybody out there know what this particular insect is called?  DAWKINS DROPS PRICE BY 10 MILLION
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Seems there is something Pete Dawkins can’t do bigger and better than everybody else on the planet: find a buyer for his mega-estate at a price that could fund a small country. Well, the Heisman Trophy winner, Rhodes scholar and one-time Republican U.S. Senate contender has re-entered the stratosphere. Kinda.  JOSEPH: 1 LEGEND, 1 COAT, MANY COLORS
By TOM CHESEK In a 2009 interview that appeared on our satellite site Red Bank oRBit, Jody Joseph described her latest project as “the most insane thing I’ve ever tried to pull off” — an ambitious, three-part concert event involving multiple wardrobe changes, guest dancers and a very real apprehension “that I’ll spin right off the edge of the stage and land in the VIP seats.” The event, which debuted last year at the Paramount in Asbury Park, was One Legend, One Diva, One Woman, a custom crafted showcase in which the locally legendary singer, songwriter and music teacher — a performer we promptly branded The Hardest Working Woman in Shore Business — augmented a set of her own songs by stepping into bluesy character as Janis Joplin, as well as stepping into the formidable boots of Stevie Nicks. The diminutive dynamo — whose musical pedigree features direct bloodline links to arena football mogul Jon Bon Jovi AND to ultimate pop heartthrob Mario Lanza — has announced that she’ll be bringing her tour de force triptych back to the boards in September, this time to the Performing Arts Center on the Lincroft campus of Brookdale Community College. Before all that, of course, she’ll be maintaining her usual busy schedule of gigs — with a little something special offered up to fans old and new this Sunday, at one of the greater Red Bank area’s most historic locales.  STARTING TONIGHT: FAIR FAIR HAVEN
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI For many, it’s the last shot at summer fun — a chance to scarf down cotton candy and hop into a bucket on the Ferris wheel. For most, though, Andy Schrank says it’s more like a family reunion. “Time flies,” said Schrank, a 30-year veteran of Fair Haven’s fire department. “A whole year goes by and now, all of a sudden, all these people are coming out of the woodwork.” They come each year for the Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair, and whatever reason brings them out of the woodwork, the area’s spirited summer closeout gets into action tonight.  WINE TIME
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Dan Levine came for the red, but left with the white. It was worth the trip from Manalapan for Levine, an admitted fan of Victor Rallo’s wines. “I love his wine,” Levine said. Showing up to Basil T’s expecting to be wowed by Rallo’s latest vintage, a valpolicella the Red Bank restaurateur and ever-traveling vintner produced from Italy, Levine unexpectedly decided against the “silky, smooth” red and went with the “faint, light and apple-y” white, Rallo Soave.  M’TOWN WOMAN GETS ANIMAL ABUSE CHARGES
A woman from the Navesink section of Middletown was charged with animal abuse today, after allegedly dragging her dog down a street with her car, according to the Asbury Park Press. Stephanie Sciscione, of Locust Avenue, told authorities that her terrier was too dirty to put in her car, so instead dragged the dog, Marlin, by its leash and down her street yesterday afternoon, the Press reports. She was charged with two counts of animal abuse this morning, Monmouth County SPCA Chief Law Enforcement Officer Buddy Amato told the Press.  WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
OK, we gave you a cupcake last week. The gazing pup and Bob Ross-like jeans were enough to get the Where folk out of the summer sun and back into our loving cyber arms to correctly ID the painting on the wall at Atlantic Glass on the corner of Maple Avenue and White Street in Red Bank.
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Jody Joseph — just being Jody in this case — brings her tribute to Janis Joplin and Stevie Nicks to the Brookdale PAC stage for an ambitious encore, even as she readies her first concert of inspirational tunes this weekend in Shrewsbury.
