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GOOCH FIGHTS ON AS COUNT GOES TO LITTLE

Highlands Mayor Anna Little has won the GOP primary for the 6th-district run against incumbent Congressman Frank Pallone, Monmouth County officials say, according to the Asbury Park Press.
But millionaire publisher Diane Gooch of Rumson is clinging to hope and won’t concede to Little without a recount of all 13,000-plus votes in the district, a [...]

RUMSON GETS ITS FIREPOWER BACK

The Rumson fireworks, as seen from Victory Park in 2007. (Click to enlarge)
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
For the first time in its short life, Rumson’s annual fireworks display came close a to not happening along the affluent  banks of the Navesink River next month.
Donations for the Independence Day show, which are synced with Red Bank’s ginormous Kaboom! [...]

SCHARFENBERGER HOLDS OFF CHALLENGER

Tony Avallone, last-place finisher in the the Middletown GOP race, says he’ll be back.
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
The attempt by a Republican upstart to wrest a seat from a Middletown incumbent in November failed in Tuesday’s primary.
Middletown Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger defended his seat on the township committee with 1,914 votes over newcomer Tony Avallone, who came away [...]

KABOOM NEEDS BIG BUCKS, BUT WILL GO ON

Contributions on the day of the show put the 2009 KaBoom fireworks barely into the black, but this year’s edition needs more public support, organizers say. (Click to enlarge)
Independence Day fireworks in Jersey City, Chicago and other major cities have already been canceled, and may yet be doused in Montclair, Bloomfield and elsewhere.
But Red Bank’s [...]

RUMSON’S NEWEST EATERY DISHES AN EYEFUL

Carl LaGrassa, owner of The Barn in Rumson. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge)
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
Stepping through the door of 102 Avenue of Two Rivers these days feels more like walking into a garage sale than a spot for pancakes and coffee.
It’s a bit of a cluttered cranny. The windowsills are lined with antiques [...]

RUMSON ROAD ACCIDENT

Emergency personnel responded to a one-car accident on Rumson Road just east of Bingham Hill Circle in Rumson shortly before 2p Tuesday afternoon. No information was immediately available about the crash, in which a sedan struck a tree head-on. (Click to enlarge)

WHO’S RUNNING, AND WHO ISN’T

The path to a second term appears unobstructed for Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna.
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
Mayors Pasquale Menna and Mike Halfacre, of Red Bank and Fair Haven, respectively, don’t appear to have any competition in their re-election bids this year.
Both men filed petition paperwork on Monday, the state deadline, to run for re-election. No one [...]

REPORT: RUMSON SCHOOLS TO CUT 16 JOBS

With no state aid coming from Trenton this year, the Rumson school district will eliminate 16 jobs and still ask voters to approve a 4-percent increase in taxes this month, according to today’s Asbury Park Press.
The district is faced with closing a $1.34 million budget gap that results from the loss of $666,000 in [...]

‘MOISTURE-RICH’ MARCH EXITS WITH A ROAR

Rumson Road just west of Bellevue Avenue in Rumson offered a water hazard for motorists late Tuesday afternoon. (Click to enlarge)
The good news: the torrential rains of the past three days are just about over.
The better news: warm and sunny days are forecast to bloom with April, following one sopping wet month.
How wet, in relative [...]

HALFACRE RACE LOSES AIR

Mike Halfacre stops in downtown Red Bank during a bike ride in 2008. (Click to enlarge)
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
Congressional candidate Mike Halfacre failed to capture home-county backing from his party Monday night, a hit that shows dwindling support for the Fair Haven mayor’s bid to unseat 12-district incumbent Democrat Rush Holt.
Meanwhile, local newspaper publisher Diane Gooch [...]


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