Monthly Archives: May 2007

Another mild winter in coastal terms left New Jersey's 127 miles of beaches pretty much intact this year, a co-author of the 2007 State of the Shore Report told a gathering at Sandy Hook yesterday, according to the Asbury Park...

Middletown authorities reported a second recent attack on a child by a coyote last night, according to stories in today's Star-Ledger and Asbury Park Press. According to the Ledger, the police fired one shot at an animal spotted nearby shortly...

Hospital staff and emergency personnel outside the Blaisdell Pavilion during this morning's fire. Riverview Medical Center spokeswoman Donna Sellmann tells redbankgreen that this morning's fire had no impact internally. "At no times were patients affected," she said. "They're safety was...

The scene outside the Blaisdell Pavilion early this morning. Emergency personnel and equipment swarmed Riverview Medical Center early this morning in response to a midnight fire in the hospital's basement. The fire was was extinguished within an hour without any...

The pissing match between Wall Street millionaires Pete Dawkins and Mickey Gooch gobbled up another three hours of valuable Monmouth County court time yesterday, according to today's Asbury Park Press. And if the judge was amused, it was largely because...

After six months of delays, the Borough of Red Bank's administrative law case against Best Liquors will finally happen next Tuesday. That's the plan, at least. At stake for Best Liquors owner Sunny Sharma is his ability to sell beer,...

A solution to water pressure problems afflicting homes and businesses on the eastern edge of Red Bank and a portion of western Fair Haven is now in the pipeline. The Red Bank borough council introduced a bonding ordinance Wednesday night...

Mayor Pasquale Menna lashed out last night at "little juveniles" from out of town whom he blames for recently grafitti-bombing the public library and loitering in front of stores near West Front Street and Maple Avenue. His remarks came amid...

Last time we checked, the overdue Red Bank Public Library renovations were expected to be completed this month or next, following weather-related delays over the winter. Last night, the borough council approved the opening of a temporary storefront two doors...

Those two new electric cars we told you about last week, the ones Red Bank planned to buy to replace the three-wheeled Cushmans used by parking enforcement? It turns out they can't meet the state requirement that they be able...

We have a winner, and her last name does not begin with Colmorgen. Michele Lombard was the first of two Red Bankers to correctly identify last week's painted smile as the emblem from, well, The Perfect Smile dental practice on...

The T. Thomas Fortune House, home to one of America's first African-American newspaper publishers — and coiner of the term 'African-American' — is among New Jersey's 10 most endangered historic locales, a statewide conservation group said yesterday. The inclusion of...

Bail was set at $85,000 yesterday for a 46-year-old Rumson woman arrested on charges of using her 85-year-old mother's identity to falsely obtain credit cards and loans totaling $110,000, the Asbury Park Press reports. Mary E. Kohler faces charges of...

The old canopy's gone. So is the pump island. The asphalt's been torn up. The building's painted metal skin has been peeled off. And a tall fence now surrounds the property. (We got our photo by holding our camera overhead.)...

Today's Asbury Park Press has more details about the ruling by Red Bank Municipal Court Judge William Himelman in a case in which a Wall Township police captain was found not guilty yesterday of drunken driving. The case had been...

Canada geese had the run of the fields at Sickles Park in Little Silver in early March. Columnist Mark Di Ionno of the Star Ledger has a piece today about the use of plywood dog cutouts to keep Canada geese...

In a case that was moved to Red Bank Municipal Court to avoid the appearance of partiality, a Wall Township police captain was cleared of a drunken driving charge despite evidence that a Breathalyzer test showed him at twice the...

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Say goodbye to those Cushmans. Last month, the Red Bank Borough Council authorized the purchase of two Club Car Carryall 2 electric vehicles from golf-cart seller Vic Gerard Golf Cars. They'll replace a pair of gas-powered Cushman three-wheelers used by...

Late in the first half of Monmouth Rugby Football Club's April 28 match against Bayonne at Thompson Park, a Monmouth player slowly righted himself from the turf after taking a hard tackle. It was a while before he was unsteadily...