Monthly Archives: February 2007

At redbankgreen, we correct our mistakes and issue clarifications where warranted. Through an attorney, Aldo Gallelli, president of A.G. Electrical Contractors Inc., has pointed out an error in our January 9 article headlined "Pickets negotiate a fence." The article, about...

Today's Asbury Park Press reports that the home of the North Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Club is close to winning state designation as an historic structure. The building is in Red Bank on the Navesink River (known as the...

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Today's Asbury Park Press has a breathtaking recap of how Sea Bright firefighters rescued Debra Yuhasz from the Fountains Condominiums fire early Monday morning. The 47-year-old woman was lying unconscious on the balcony of her second-floor unit when Capt. Joseph...

Updating the item below... SeaStreak has now cancelled ALL boats to and from Highlands. From the carrier's latest email blast: Due to ice conditions SeaStreak will be making the following changes today's schedule: All service to and from Highlands will...

... Seastreak starts c-c-c-cancelling ferry runs because of ice. Which is what they're doing t.-t-t-today. The following departures are cancelled, according to an email sent out at midmorning to subscribers: 11:45a from E. 34th Street & 12:00p from Pier 11...

The Asbury Park Press is backing Councilman John Curley's push for a reduction in overtime parking fines in Red Bank from $38 to $25, a move some of the Democratic majority says will blow a $188,000 hole in the borough...

The badly burned victim of yesterday's spectacular Sea Bright fire was identified as 47-year-old Debra Yuhasz. Today's Press reports that she's in critical but stable condition at the St. Barnabas Burn Center in Livingston. At least 15 units at the...

Having "hit kind of a wall" in 2006, Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises is being cautious about 2007, a company executive says in an interview in today's Star-Ledger. J. Larry Sorsby, HOV's chief financial officer, tells the Ledger's Judy DeHaven that...

Fair Haven's new borough administrator, hired last night by the Borough Council, is a 28-year-old woman with three years experience in municipal administration, today's Asbury Park Press reports. Mary Howell replaces Julie Horner-Kiezer, who left last month to become borough...

The Press is reporting the fire at the Fountains Condominiums complex is largely under control and that an unidentified woman who was badly burned was airlifted by helicopter to the St. Barnabas Burn Center in Livingston. The fire was reported...

The Asbury Park Press reports that a fire at the Fountains Condominium Complex on 1340 Ocean Avenue continues to burn. From an update posted at 9:39a: SEA BRIGHT — A fire at 1340 Ocean Ave., at the Fountains Condominium Complex,...

Tinton Falls officials are considering an ordinance that would require hotels and motels to make photo IDs mandatory for guest check-in — something, presumably, that most such establishments already require of at least one guest per room. But it would...

Some art requires solitude and study and the quiet wait for inspiration. But when a visitor asks Medy Quiroz about how she works, she drags a clattering easel into the middle of her kitchen floor, puts up a large half-finished...

The Asbury Park Press has published a cookbook produced by its staff that features "signature recipes" of entrees made by chefs at 40 Monmouth and Ocean county restaurants. Three Red Bank restaurants are featured in the book, titled "Shore Gourmet."...

Confession time: it hurts. It's probably our own fault, because it usually is when this happens. But still, it hurts. For two weeks in a row, the 'Where' in-box has sat idle and nearly empty. Not a single entry, not...

In the ever-chipper language of public relations, this year's "Shopper Bowl Shuffle," a downtown sales push in conjunction with the Super Bowl, is "bigger and better," says a press release from RiverCenter. The "better" remains open to interpretation, but in...