Monthly Archives: March 2008

Last week's Where yielded yet another surprising result: three out of the five readers who wrote in were mistaken about what we thought was an obvious location. Peter DeFazio and Joe Sapienza got it right: a side wall at Nirvana,...

Anthony Sims, the 19-year-old who became a fugitive for two months after a Red Bank shooting that left two men near death in late November, has been indicted for attempted murder, the Asbury Park Press reports. A Monmouth County grand...

Two views of the disused borough parking lot at the foot of Maple Avenue that may come up for sale this year. Click to enlarge images. Hoping to trim a proposed budget that would otherwise sock property owners with a...

Cast members rehearse for next week's Cool School Showcase event at the Count Basie Theatre. By TOM CHESEK In some respects, it's not all that different from those good old school talent shows that generations have known and tolerated. Only...

Melissa Dominach and Bailey Taft with Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna, left, and Councilman John Curley. Last month, redbankgreen featured Bailey Taft and Melissa Dominach, seventh-graders from the Knollwood School in Fair Haven who had launched a non-profit enterprise to...

Red Bank officials last night introduced a proposed 2008-'09 budget that would increase the local portion of the typical homeowner's property taxes by $311.20 per year. The figure is just a starting point for several weeks of refining and public...

Now's a good time to fix that drip... The impact of three years of infrastructure emergencies will be reflected in the next round of water bills to Red Bank users. The borough council last night approved a 10-percent increase in...

The Asbury Park Press is reporting that four people were sent to Riverview Medical Center after a motor vehicle accident on West Bergen Avenue. From the Press: Four people suffered injuries this morning when a car and a pick-up truck...

Red Bank Catholic and St. James Elementary School are about to see their trash-removal costs rise. Red Bank is tightening its fiscal belt, and non-profits that generate more trash than the typical household are about to feel the pinch. Last...

An aerial view of Harding Road and Prospect Avenue, marked up with possible changes and a data box describing current conditions. Engineers recommended a less extensive fix than the one shown. Click to enlarge. The troubled intersection of Prospect Avenue...

Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises reported its sixth consecutive quarterly loss yesterday, this time a $131 million shortfall that was double the year-prior amount. The publicly traded homebuilder, which operates in 19 states, managed to sell more units in its lastest...

By TOM CHESEK With his luxurious mane of silver hair, his Continental bearing, and his years of training in the most formidable academies of the former Soviet Union, Vladislav Kovalsky could be said to embody the very image of the...

A plastic shopping bag flutters in a tree on Monmouth Street recently. It's not quite the far-reaching approach that its sponsor, Councilman Mike DuPont, first proposed late last year. But an ordinance that DuPont thinks will enable Red Bank to...

Ed Zipprich's civic-minded dessert, complete with iceboat logo. Turns out Red Bank's centennial did not go completely overlooked this weekend. River Road resident Ed Zipprich and his partner, JP Nicolaides, threw a little party for neighbors and friends that featured...

Where's Willard Scott? Where's the cake? Where's our SILLY PARTY HAT? Red Bank Borough is 100 years old today! Or next Monday, depending on which birth certificate you go by. A century ago, on March 10, 1908, the New Jersey...

The following are entries in the Red Bank police logs from Feb. 29 through March 7. The information is supplied by the police department and unedited. Robbery occurring on 2-29-08 in the area of Shrewsbury Ave. Victim reported that he...

Two River Theater founder Bob Rechnitz apparently can't believe what he's hearing as zoning board members detail their objections to his proposal. Bob Rechnitz thought he had a can't-miss idea. Buy a single-family house on the West Side of Red...

Bruce Springsteen has scheduled a May 7 concert at the Count Basie Theatre as a fundraiser for the historic Red Bank venue and some of its programs. The Monmouth Street theatre announced the rare headline appearance by the rocker this...

At least one member of the sprawling redbankgreen staff expected more readers to recognize last week's image, which showed a basic cinderblock shell of a building under construction. The reason: its location, at the Sea Bright anchorage of the Rumson-Sea...

Today's Asbury Park Press, in a story about rising overtime costs for employees of Middletown, reports that seven members of the township police department called in sick on Super Bowl Sunday. The news is contained in the context of a...