Monthly Archives: July 2007

The Asbury Park Press is reporting the death Monday of Frank 'Terry' Magovern of Rumson, an early friend, fan and supporter of Bruce Springsteen and other Asbury Park musicians. From the story: In the 1960s and '70s, Magovern managed bars...

By LINDA G. RASTELLI Sachi, a gorgeous eleven-year-old Siberian husky, is sitting on a metal table at the Red Bank Veterinary Hospital displaying the smile her owners say makes her "the mayor" of her Holmdel neighborhood. Meantime, Dr. Keith Stein...

A federal watchdog agency will look into the circumstances under which a Rumson developer obtained rights to convert former military housing at Fort Hancock into commercial space on Sandy Hook without showing he has the money to do the job,...

Today's Star-Ledger takes a look at the efforts of NewYork/New Jersey Baykeeper Andy Willner to restore oyster beds in the New York region, including in the Navesink and Shrewsbury Rivers. The article offers some historical perspective on the economic importance...

She's long been a force on her native island of Jamaica, and had a chart-topping hit there with "Oh Me Oh My" some years back. Cabaret singer Karen Smith doesn't have much of a profile in the States, but she's...

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After a series of discussions over the past couple of years about how to improve access to and the usability of the Swimming River and Navesink River shorelines, the Red Bank Waterfront Plan is finally ready. Have at it, folks....

One of the crappiest — and, apparently, most star-crossed — corners of Red Bank seems destined to stay that way for the foreseeable future. Last week, the new owner of property at the southeast intersection of Monmouth and West streets,...

Last week's 'Where,' like so many before it, was like riding a bike for the Colmorgen kids. As they correctly identified with their first-in entry, the picture showed an open-air display stand at Shrewsbury Bicycles on Route 35. Jenn Woods,...

Both the Count Basie Theatre and the Two River Theater Company were major beneficiaries of whopping state funding increases as part of an effort to "create parity" among arts organizations, according to today's Star-Ledger. The Basie's fiscal year 2008 grant...

Seems somebody may have been desperate for office supplies. The Asbury Park Press has a story this afternoon about four out-of-staters arrested Sunday at the Staples store in Shrewsbury for trying to pass a stolen credit card number. Apparently, the...

A Roman Catholic charitable group has resurrected a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard to provide temporary housing and childcare assistance to homeless mothers and mothers-to-be. Madonna House @ Red Bank Inc., a registered 501c3 charity, will hold an open...

Dr. Diana Salvador, above, says yes; Council President Sharon Lee, at right, agrees, but says citizens will have to get behind the idea first. Kids' activist David Prown's request that the Red Bank council put the brakes on a plan...

A Rumson man remained jailed on Long Island yesterday on federal charges othat he was involved in a $75 million scheme to cheat heating oil customers through rigged meters on delivery trucks, according to an article in Newsday. Bail hearings...

The good news, we suppose, is that you don't have to get on a toll road to get there. Assemblywoman and state Senate candidate Jennifer Beck of Red Bank will co-host a town hall meeting tonight in Freehold Township to...

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Cash it out, or turn it into a community center? To the borough of Red Bank, it's an asset beter turned into cash. To kids' activist David Prown, it's about to become a missed opportunity. On the agenda for Monday's...

It's as Jersey as the Sopranos: the Star-Ledger's Munchmobile, a van with a giant polyurethane wiener on the roof that tours the state every summer in search of the best eats — ice cream, burgers, Italian, seafood, whatever. Well, yesterday...