Monthly Archives: February 2007

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It's long been kind of an orphan among international issues, crying out for a solution. But the genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan continues. Indeed, there was this last week, from a New York Times story on efforts...

After four years of waiting, ice boaters, skaters and riverwalkers have been enjoying great conditions on the frozen Navesink River lately. The glory continues today, with forecasted wind-chill temperatures of -5 degrees before a warming trend moves in tomorrow, according...

Today's Star-Ledger has a story on the residual power outages from Wednesday's storm, most of which are concentrated in this corner of Monmouth County. And the Asbury Park Press reported at 7:30a that between 501 and 2,000 customers still had...

Plenty of homes and businesses in our area remain without electrical power this frozen morning. Here's a 9a update from the Asbury Park Press: Thousands of Monmouth County residents are still without power this morning, and some area roads remain...

Whether they were its customers or not, book lovers of a certain bent had to have been disheartened to learn recently about the planned closing of Princeton’s Micawber Books, a 26-year-old store situated on historic Nassau Street opposite the immensely...

No readers identified last week’s ‘Where,’ so the pot grows to $130 million. Oh, beg your pardon — that’s not us. That’s the MegaMillions lottery game. All this ice seems to have given us a case of brain freeze. The...

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Yeah, it's a real mess out there. Dangerous, too. Tree branches are falling under the weight of wet ice, often taking wires with them. We saw two downed wires in Rumson that the authorities hadn't yet gotten to in the...

Red Bank is now the owner of a former industrial property on the West Side that officials say is destined to house some 30 low- and moderate-income families—and won't cost the town a dime. The borough closed Monday on its...

Red Bank officials last night officially added dozens of West Side businesses to the roster of the 16-year-old Special Improvement District, an entity widely credited with having sparked a renaissance of the once-ailing downtown. The expansion of the district, which...

The Navesink River was bustling with ice-starved skaters, walkers and racers Saturday, raising concern that too many people may be assuming that the entire surface is solid when it isn't. "There's a lot of places that are unsafe," said racer...

Unelected Red Bankers aren't the only ones reeling over the reassessment letters that landed in their mailboxes in recent days. Mayor Pasquale Menna said he's peeved that the letters went out without his approval, and were written, he said, in...

The meter is still spinning out of control on winter heating bills, and now comes news from the state Board of Public Utilities that electricity users will get slammed with a 14.2-percent price increase in June, the Asbury Park Press...

Skaters, ice boaters, ice yachters and those, (like us) who've simply yearned to walk on the great Navesink River: here's the latest from the North Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Club ice conditions iceline, as of about 5:50p Thursday. Part...

As expected, New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice James Zazzali's black robe came off at Brookdale Community College Thursday. And what was on display, in part, was the Rumson jurist's wit. “My wife said have a good day,” Zazzali told...

A 49-year-old Fair Haven woman was pulled from the Navesink last night after she fell through the river's ice in an effort to retrieve a wayward dog, the Asbury Park Press reports. Officer John Waltz responded to a report at...

Red Bank property owners: it's reassessment time. So prepare to find in your mail an innocuous looking white envelope from a company called Realty Appraisal Co. And brace yourselves. We here at redbankgreen got ours just minutes ago, showing a...

To those familiar only with the crib notes of her biography, Nadine Goldsmith may be easy to misinterpret. A well-off Rumsonite, she was a fixture in charity-ball circles, and after she died of breast cancer in March, 2004 at age...

We're back in the game! After a dry spell (for us), three—count 'em—three 'Where' devotees identified last week's image. It shows a door on the Monmouth Street building that houses Fins & Feathers pet store and, upstairs, part of Buona...