Monthly Archives: August 2008

Peninsula residents, here's your weekend homework assignment, and no, it can't wait until Labor Day: The final report of a consultant hired to look into the viability of merging the police departments of Fair haven, Little Silver and Rumson is...

Andrew Mencinsky and a brigade of sea paddlers head down the Hudson River last year. They'll be doing the same next week. In May, 2007, a two-mile-wide tornado tore through the town of Greensburg, Kansas, destroying 95 percent of its...

Do not... zzzzt zzzzt... do not adjust your dial... Ah, that's better, a picture rendered at a state-of-the-art 72 pixels per inch. Now: where was it taken? One reader mistook last week's 'Where' as showing the drainage system at Meadow...

The Star-Ledger, citing the Coast Guard as its source, reports that a boat out of Irwin Marina in Red Bank sank 80 miles east of Barnegat Light today and that all five on board were rescued by a good samaritan...

Pathetic Charmingly simple yard sale signage points the way to unknown treasures. Mark those calendars, folks. The first-ever Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale is a go for Saturday, September 20, rain or shine. The borough council approved the event Monday...

Today's issue of the thrice-weekly Red Bank oRBit has, quite by chance, a water theme. First, there's our scoop from Red Bank's Broadway Diner, inexplicably overlooked by the media mob, on what GOP First Lady-contender Cindy McCain ordered when she...

Cindy McCain, right, wife of GOP presidential contender Sen. John McCain, arrives for lunch this afternoon at the Broadway Diner on Monmouth Street, accompanied by state Sen. Jennifer Beck. McCain was coming from a fundraiser in Rumson. She and her...

Elmer and Jeff Jackson at the fog-wrapped Golden Gate Bridge as they prepared to start their ride June 3. (Photos by Tim Hathaway.) Two months and countless pedal strokes later, the No Regrets cross-country bike tour arrives in New Jersey...

A plastic bag stuck in a Monmouth Street tree last winter; a house on Washington Street that's part of the new historic district. Actions taken Monday night at the bimonthly meeting of the Red Bank Council. • A ban on...

GOP council candidates John Tyler, left, and Grace Cangemi, right, meet with reporters after last night's meeting. By virtue of a strong showing in last year's race, second-time council candidate John Tyler Jr. may have been the presumptive favorite to...

The Fair haven dock as seen on Friday. (Thanks to Joe Spagnuola for giving us access.) The rebuilding of the Fair Haven dock moved ahead last week with work on a new gazebo. Mayor Mike Halfacre tells redbankgreen that the...

Contrary to a report in Sunday's Record of Hackensack, GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain will not be dining at a private residence in Rumson tomorrow night. According to Mayor John Ekdahl, the Arizona senator's wife, Cindy McCain, is expected...

Today's edition of the thrice-weekly Red Bank oRBit features a report that Springsteen & Co. will command the halftime show at the next Super Bowl. Also in oRBit: • A look-ahead at some terrific events coming down in the next...

A rundown of crimes entered in the Red Bank police blotter from August 1 to August 8. Items are unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring on 8-3-08 at Riverside Parking Garage. Victim reported that upon returning to parked vehicle discovered the rear...

Curley: why hasn't Mallet repaid a nickel of her 2003 campaign debt? Freeholder candidate John Curley, getting a jump on the fall election battle, is taking Democratic opponent Amy Mallet to task for what he calls "illegal" machine-politics campaign funding....

"Hair" is back, and not only at the Public Theater in New York. A staging of the breakthrough rock musical is also in the works at the fabulous old Carousel building at the foot of the Asbury Park boardwalk. But...

Keith Rella, newsman in a hurry. If all goes according to his remarkably hasty plan, this time next week, Keith Rella will oversee a bunch of teenagers in newsie caps calling out "Extra, extra!" while distributing first editions of a...

This week: a rare multiple-angle clue set, because it's August and your brain is in the south of France, or maybe Beijing, while your body's here, stateside, on staycation. Last week's image showed an unusually tall fire hydrant being admired...

Frank Edgerly, head football coach at Red Bank Catholic for the past nine years, has taken a job as director of pigskin recruiting operations for Rutgers University, where he was a standout quarterback. The university announced Edgerly's hiring yesterday. He'll...

A 30-year-old Middletown man was ordered to a year's worth of psychiatric counseling after he pleaded guilty yesterday to beating three goslings to death with an umbrella, today's Press reports. Middletown Municipal Court Judge Michael D. Pugliese sentenced Michael Gonzalez...