Monthly Archives: June 2007

Buried in today's Asbury Park Press account of Rumson's centennial parade Saturday is word of a bizarre accident that injured a spectator. From the story: At approximately 2 p.m. near the parade's end at Victory Park, a streamer shot from...

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With just a week to go in his short tenure as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, James Zazzali of Rumson is continuing to lobby for higher judge's salaries, telling an audience in Paramus yesterday that judiciary pay...

The median price of all new single-family homes built in Monmouth County last year was $810,000, more than 3.5 times the national median of $230,000, according to a new report from the county Planning Board. Typical size: 3,875 square feet,...

By LINDA G. RASTELLI Back when he had water rights on the Navesink, marine engineer Rik van Hemmen would paddle a homemade canoe to work in the summer, thus combining three of his many passions — engineering, wooden boats, and...

Word on the street is that the Colmorgen boys, Bob & Carl, were running all over town on hunches as they tried to figure out where they'd seen last week's location. In which case Bob, who lives in Eatontown, probably...

State wildlife officials hope to cool some of the fears raised by the presence of coyotes in Middletown while employing night-vision technology to try to find the canine predators, the Asbury Park Press reports today. State and local officials were...

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About 50 Fair Haven residents turned out for a special meeting of the zoning board last night to object to a proposal by two wireless phone carriers to build a 125-foot-tall cell tower next to the Church of the Nativity...

Environmentalists voiced concern yesterday that the federal government has abruptly halted long-standing tests that can predict brown tides of the kind seen along the coast over the Memoral Day weekend, the Star-Ledger reports. The tests, which have been conducted along...

Though responding to numerous calls of coyote sightings in Middletown, police and other officials haven't caught or killed any more of the predators since one was fatally shot on May 23. Yesterday, at about 2:30p, a policeman fired two shots...

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It's a wrap as Debra Johnson arranges final details after closing Victory Market for the final time last Friday. A Red Bank meat business with World War II roots closed its doors Friday after the owners could not agree with...

Visual inspections have led to the discovery of two Red Bank properties believed to have contributed to the high levels of fecal coliform in the Navesink River reported earlier this year, the Asbury Park Press reports today. One of the...

The Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival kicked off to a terrific start Friday night before a light rain rolled in at about 9p during Billy Hector's headline show. Red Bank's own Chuck Lambert Band, above, stirred the festival to...

With promotional booths at the Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival going for thousands of dollars, d. Magazine, published by Red Bank photographer Danny Sanchez found an alternative more suited to his budget. He rented out the empty storefront at...

The Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival might be forgiven for having one monster case of the blues. In recent years, it's been battered financially and encountered its fair share of literally stormy weather. Yet the people who pull it...

If these jiggly bottles look familiar, it may be that you saw them when redbankgreen debuted, one year ago today. Or perhaps you came across them while dumpster-diving our archive sometime afterward. (Hey, it's perfectly sanitary, and a diverting way...

By LINDA G. RASTELLI Joe Cullity doesn’t like to make a big deal out of his hip injury, and speaks reluctantly about the day he got it — September 11, 2001. "I was lucky I was late for work," he...

"Frustrated" by a housing market that keeps moving in the wrong direction, Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises yesterday reported its third consecutive quarterly loss. As a result, Moody's Investors Services cut its ratings on Hovnanian debt issues, saying the homebuilder's cash...