Monthly Archives: February 2008

HEY! That's our DOG! Roddy McDowall with the original Red Bank-bred 'Lassie' in 1943's 'Lassie Come Home.' By TOM CHESEK While redbankgreen applauds the slate of picture shows on display in the Count Basie Theatre's "Take 9 at the Basie:...

The special assessments are being collected — and have been since last September. Now, Red Bank RiverCenter is moving to solicit input from business owners in the West Side expansion zone about how those funds might best be spent to...

Might there be another summer of cocktails on the beach after all? By LINDA G. RASTELLI For the second time in six months, the owners of Donovan's Reef are back to square one in their effort to sell the beachfront...

The screening committee of the Monmouth County Republicans failed Saturday to select a slate to run for two county freeholder seats open in November, according to the Asbury Park Press. Red Bank Borough Councilman John Curley's still in the running...

Will John Curley's firebrand personality fly with Monmouth County Republican powerbrokers? The Red Bank councilman will find out tomorrow when he goes before the party's screening committee in a bid to be one of two nominees to run for county...

An architect's rendering of The Bank, the proposed sports bar on the present site of Chubby's. A Zoning Board hearing on the proposal to raze Chubby's Waterside Café and replace it with a new sports bar and restaurant catering to...

More than 100 area residents turned out last night at Mahala F. Atchison Elementary School in Tinton Falls last night for a discussion on Gov. Jon Corzine's effort to balance the state budge using steep toll-road fare increases, today's Asbury...

The Asbury Park Press today is reporting the landing a harbor seal on a beach at Sandy Hook. It was unclear immediately if the animal was sick, wounded or just taking a breather, but officials were preparing this morning to...

Half a dozen readers quickly identified last week's image, which showed an architectural detail from the roofline of 74 Broad Street, at the northwest corner of Monmouth Street. Now the street-level location of a Valley National Bank branch, the building...

Red Bank officials appear to be building a case that the Community YMCA may sell its Children's Cultural Center on Monmouth Street only to another educational or cultural non-profit. Otherwise, Mayor Pasquale Menna tells today's Asbury Park Press, the property...

By TOM CHESEK For a man who quit an established recording career in order to study the fine art of making violins, David Bromberg sure knows how to work a room. A veteran sideman to Dylan, Ringo Starr and Jerry...

The proposed 2008-2009 budget for Red Bank's primary and middle schools hasn't been set, but Superintendent Laura Morana hints the spending plan will be little changed from last year's, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the article, by reporter Larry...

By TOM CHESEK The flying saucer descends to the stage of the Vegas Hilton in a swamp-gas riot of dry-ice foggers and gelled lights. Through the actual haze (and the one brought on by the showroom's three-drink minimum), the audience...

The Bistro's George Lyristis: "You can't always ask somebody else to fix the problem." Business is tough these days for many Red Bank restaurants. And it's not simply a matter of the winter blahs. The economy has soured. Would-be patrons...

A Jackson Township woman who ran a Lincroft investment advisory firm has been indicted on charges she bilked clients out of $641,000. Zina Martin, 43, was the sole owner and president of Kairos Financial, whose address is given as 331...

Today's Sunday Star-Ledger has an extensive piece about the black activist journalist T. (Timothy) Thomas Fortune and the effort to save his longtime Red Bank home from the wrecking ball — or, as the article's author puts it, "from predatory...

A former Red Bank policeman was sentenced to 18 months probation for assaulting a man while on duty shortly after the 2006 fireworks display in town, the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office says in a press release issued late yesterday.Download 021508a.pdf...

Among the records broken at the Two River Theater in its smash 'Macbeth' run: most students attending one of its plays. Not in the legions Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd In evils to top Macbeth. Well,...

A string of fatal car crashes involving teens on provisional licenses has given rise to a test program: requiring those drivers to display a golden decal on the rear windows or bumpers of their cars. Students wishing to park their...

Ahh, Valentine's Day... When a young heart falls for timeworn architectural details of unspecified location... Know it? Tell us, please. As for last week's photo, Monmouth911 and Peter DeFazio were able to discern from the silhouette that our camera had...