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RED BANK REC GEARS UP FOR SPRING

February 26, 2013 – 1:04 pm

Installers laid down rubber pellets as the base for the new artificial turf at Count Basie Fields in January. (Click to enlarge) By WIL FULTON With the first day of spring less than a month away, Memone Crystian, director of Red Bank’s Parks and Recreation department, knows the throes of winter will soon be replaced [...]

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FORMER REC HEAD EVANS DEAD AT AGE 50

September 8, 2011 – 5:40 am

Bob Evans at the Red Bank Centennial picnic in 2008. Former Red Bank Parks & Rec director Bob Evans has died at age 50. Evans was found dead of an apparent heart attack in a locker room Monday, days after having pitched in a over-40 baseball game on Cape Cod, according to a blog post [...]

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RUMSON CUTS FAIR HAVEN FROM REC SPORTS

September 30, 2010 – 12:28 pm

The change affects kids in the rowing program at Victory Park, above, and a lacrosse program. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Citing capacity issues, Rumson has dropped Fair Haven from its recreation sports partnership, a move that isn’t sitting well with coaches and parents from both riverside towns. At Tuesday night’s council meeting, Rumson’s [...]

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SKATING, PUTT-PUTT OUT IN MIDDLETOWN

June 29, 2010 – 8:43 am

A skateboarder uses the township’s closed skate park despite the padlocks on the gates. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Shawn Sharkey is trying to balance his dejection and confusion these days. Last summer, he and his friends would head to Middletown’s municipal skate park, in the Port Monmouth section of [...]

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INSIDE DIRT: BASIE FIELD GETTING MAKEOVER

May 27, 2010 – 7:34 am

Heavy equipment regraded the soil inside the running track recently in preparation for artificial turf. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI If you haven’t noticed, Count Basie Field is looking a lot more like the old Yankee Stadium and a lot less like the friendly home of Red Bank’s slew of sports teams. “It’s a [...]

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BURNHAM: MAPLE COVE MAKEOVER COMING

December 24, 2009 – 7:45 am

Cindy Burnham at Maple Cove in April, 2008. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Is the wrangling over borough-owned land at the river end of Maple Avenue in Red Bank finally over? Cindy Burnham, who’s been a thorn in the side of local officials with her campaign to spruce up popular gateway to the Navesink River, says so. [...]

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EVANS OUT AS PARKS & REC HEAD

December 18, 2009 – 9:01 am

Bob Evans at the Red Bank Centennial picnic in 2008. Red Bank Parks & Rec director Bob Evans appears to be out of a job come January 1. “It doesn’t look like the reappointment will be made,” Mayor Pasquale Menna told redbankgreen late yesterday, in response to questions over whether Evans had been fired earlier [...]

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LITLLE SILVER PARK OK’D FOR FACELIFT

December 10, 2009 – 6:13 am

The Dominick F. Santelle Park and Boat Ramp is slated for what Borough Council members say are much-needed renovations. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI There’ll be reason to visit Santelle Park again come spring time, if not just to use it, but to soak in its new look. Now a forlorn place of [...]

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FAIR HAVEN REC HEAD THRIVES, FULL-TIME

November 13, 2009 – 7:36 am

Charlie Hoffman just finished his first year as Fair Haven’s first full-time recreation director. Borough officials think the investment has paid off in spades. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI As mayor of Fair Haven, Michael Halfacre catches a lot of flak for decisions he and the Borough Council make. That was no different [...]

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LOVE, PEACE & TIE DYE AT LITTLE SILVER REC

August 7, 2009 – 1:11 pm

Little Silver’s summer recreation program closed out today with a celebration of love and peace in recognition of the fortieth anniversary of Woodstock. The event concluded with a ‘tug of peace’ in which, like, a million kids took on a vastly outnumbered crew of adults and counselors. The kids won, winding up in a heap [...]

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