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YOURS FOR JUST $29.9 MILLION

March 3, 2010 – 12:51 pm

The Dawkins estate in Rumson, as seen from the Navesink by redbankgreen in 2008. (Click to enlarge)

Let us stipulate right up front that Pete Dawkins does everything on a scale most of us mortals can only gape at in wonder.
Don’t know who he is? Check out his exhaustively comprehensive monument-to-self website, one befitting his [...]

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BACK IN TIME, ON WATER HARD & SOFT

February 5, 2010 – 11:28 am

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The reception room of the Atrium at Navesink Harbor was packed with river rats and history mavens old and young Thursday night for short program on the history of [...]

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NICE, WHILE IT LASTS…

January 14, 2010 – 8:52 am

Fiona Abrahamsen takes to the river on foot for the first time outside the Monmouth Boat Club, along with her husband, Harry, and children Connor and Cordelia. (Click to enlarge)
“This is AWEsome!”
So proclaimed Fiona Abrahamsen of Rumson as she walked on the Navesink River for the first time ever yesterday afternoon.
Of course, the surface of [...]

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CHIEF TO FACE CHARGES FOR ACCIDENT

November 23, 2009 – 2:37 pm

A Fair Haven Rescue Squad ambulance carries Fire Chief Shaun Foley  from the scene of his  apparent suicide attempt in Rumson Sunday night. Below, Foley in early 2008.

No charges have yet been filed against Fair Haven Fire Chief Shaun Foley following an accident and apparent suicide attempt that brought a phalanx of rescuers to the [...]

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JUMPER WAS FAIR HAVEN FIRE CHIEF

November 22, 2009 – 9:59 pm

The man who jumped into the Navesink River from the Oceanic Bridge in an apparent suicide attempt Sunday night was Shaun Foley, chief of the volunteer fire department in neighboring Fair Haven, that town’s mayor tells redbankgreen.
Mayor Mike Halfacre confirmed the identity after repeated anonymous postings on this site said that the victim was the [...]

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RESCUE EFFORT SHUTS OCEANIC BRIDGE

November 22, 2009 – 7:53 pm

Emergency workers hustled the victim along a dock at Salt Creek Grille to a waiting ambulance.
A possible suicide attempt led to a massive rescue effort near the Oceanic Bridge in Rumson Sunday evening.

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RUMSON SNAGS REGATTA FOR 2010

November 17, 2009 – 8:45 am

For one year at least, the Navesink River off Rumson’s Victory Park will be home to America’s largest collegiate rowing event.
Officials of the Dad Vail Regatta made it official Monday night: the Philly-based college rowing event will be moving to Rumson for 2010, with the possibility of an extended stay.
That’s according to a report in [...]

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COUNTY BANS TRUCKS ON OCEANIC BRIDGE

October 21, 2009 – 6:45 am

The Oceanic Bridge looking south toward Rumson, as seen last July. Below, a structural element shows signs of deterioration. (Click to enlarge)

Monmouth County has effectively banned trucks from the Oceanic Bridge starting today as engineers conduct a review of the 70-year-old span’s condition.
A three-ton weight limit was announced by the office of county Engineer Joe [...]

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SIGNS POINT AGAIN TO ‘CONTROVERSY COVE’

October 13, 2009 – 7:53 am

Kathleen Gasienica, left, and Cindy Burham, third from left, speaking with Administrator Stanley Sickels after last night’s council meeting.

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
Less than a week after Mayor Pasquale Menna pledged to make their requests a reality, backers of a plan for modest improvements at Maple Cove returned to the Red Bank council last night to [...]

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MENNA PLEDGES END TO COVE CONTROVERSY

October 7, 2009 – 6:55 am

Kayakers putting into the Navesink River at the Maple Cove Sunday evening. (Click to enlarge)
An ongoing battle over a couple of benches and sign proposed for installation on public property at Red Bank’s Maple Cove may be headed toward a peaceful conclusion.
Then again, it could be that Mayor Pasquale Menna just thrust himself into the [...]

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