Tag Archives: Rumson
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 [...]
January 28, 2010 – 8:51 am
Got a guess for this week’s Where? Tell it to the hand.
January 8, 2010 – 9:26 am
The video for Six Volt’s ‘Girl Next Door’ features some locations that may be familiar to locals.
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
For the last few months, in a nondescript Red Bank rehearsal studio, a group of driven high school kids have been subtly plotting a takeover of the national teenage music scene. And there isn’t a doubt in [...]
January 8, 2010 – 6:26 am
It’s beginning to look like winter out on the Shrewsbury River.
redbankgreen’s accidental photographer captured this northward view of a dredge Thursday from the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge, where a bridgetender told us the river has not frozen solid since 1996.
Is it likely to freeze soon?
December 30, 2009 – 7:51 am
John Hird at last night’s meeting of the parks & rec committee. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi)
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
If you were around Red Bank in 2003, seeing John Hird’s face at Borough Hall these days may seem like deja vu.
Hird is back, and in the same role he was the first time the Red Bank Parks [...]
December 17, 2009 – 2:22 pm
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
The Dad Vail Regatta won’t be coming to Rumson next year after all, officials announced Thursday, much to the shock and disappointment of Rumson leaders who were assured the popular intercollegiate race would be taking place on the Navesink River.
“That is unfortunately true,” Rumson Mayor John Ekdahl said, just a half-hour after he [...]
By Dustin
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Posted in Boats & watercraft, Breaking News, Crafts, Games, Politics, Rivers & streams, Rumson, Sports, Tourism
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Also tagged dad vail, navesink river, rowing
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December 1, 2009 – 9:52 am
A view of the Navesink River from Victory Park in Rumson, where many spectators will watch the 2010 Dad Vail Regatta. County officials have OK’d viewing from Oceanic Bridge. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi)
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
Down in Philly, they’re crying a river and pointing fingers over the loss of the Dad Vail Regatta to sleepy little [...]
November 24, 2009 – 7:03 am
Emergency vehicles on the Oceanic Bridge during the rescue of Fair Haven Fire Chief Shaun Foley Sunday night.
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
Yesterday had the feel of Black Monday at the Fair Haven firehouse.
Twenty-four hours after borough Fire Chief Shaun Foley plunged from the Oceanic Bridge into the the Navesink River, department members were visibly shaken and reluctant [...]
November 2, 2009 – 7:31 am
Vehicles arriving onto the Sea Bright peninsula via the partially completed Route 36 bridge from Highlands over the weekend. (Photos by Dustin Racioppi)
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
Call it a tale of two bridges.
Over the Shrewsbury River, there’s progress. And not too far southwest, spanning the Navesink, there’s regression.
Not only can motorists see advances made on the new [...]
By redbankgreenman
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Posted in Cars, Commuting, Government, Middletown, Monmouth County government, Public Facilities, Rivers & streams, Rumson, Sandy Hook, Sea Bright, Traffic, Transportation
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Also tagged bridges, highlands, Middletown, monmouth county, oceanic, rt. 36, sea bright
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September 25, 2009 – 1:33 pm
Hovnanian Enterprises, the Red Bank-based national homebuilder, has announced the death of its founder, Kevork Hovnanian.
No details were given about the cause or date of death. Hovnanian lived in Rumson and was 86 years old.
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