Monthly Archives: October 2008

Bill Meyer says the borough shouldn't negotiate over the former borough hall until it's investigated the sale to Kids Bridge eight years ago. Below right: a copy of a business entity status report he says raises questions about the deal....

Yes, folks, that's him: Peter Tork, the manically cute Monkee grown older and wiser. Forty years later, he's still at the music game, and tonight steers some variant of the Monkeemobile into the lot at Long Branch's Brighton Bar. That's...

The treeful of orange leaves underscores the message of this truck parked at the foot of Hudson Avenue on East Bergen Place in Red Bank. Email this item

Inspired in seemingly equal parts by Karl Marx, Woody Guthrie and the Clash, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg has cut a singular path through the world of popular music. On Sunday, the iconoclastic guitar slinger from Barking, England brings his axe and...

The scene at the River Street Commons auditorium last night. The candidates rarely differed on policy or outlook, and when they did, not by much. The only raised voices were those of audience members calling for the candidates to speak...

Several dozen citizens turned out at the Pilgrim Baptist Church on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank last night to watch the final presidential debate between senators Barack Obama and John McCain on a projection screen suspended above the altar. The...

Yogi said it ain't over 'til it's over, but after seven years on Monmouth Street, Julie Baron and husband Bruce are signing off at their memorabilia showcase store. By TOM CHESEK RETIREMENT SALE. EVERYTHING MUST GO. 50% OFF. The signs...

The traffic jam of answers to last week's Where that we expected did not come. An indicator, perhaps, that the image was too familiar? For those readers still puzzled, the photo shows those decorative steel sphere thingies that line both...

The Highlands-Sea Bright (Route 36) Bridge, as seen yesterday from the deck at Gaiter's Restaurant in Sea Bright. Pile driving and other loud work on the Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge now under reconstruction has been quieted to enhance the possibility that...

Ray Jackson points to the area in the Shrewsbury where he saw eight to ten dolphins feeding all day Monday. Pete Pawlikowski saw a couple of them Monday morning as he headed over the Oceanic Bridge to work at the...

Six months after the death of the woman who founded it, Norma Todd's Lunch Break has named a new executive director. The volunteer outfit on Drs. Parker Boulevard in Red Bank that provides a hot meal a day to anyone...

Today's Press has a brief item on a code-red search for a missing four-year-old Rumson boy that ended an hour later when the child was found asleep in a closet in his own home. Police used an infrared camera to...

David Goldman with his son, Sean, who was taken to Brazil on "vacation" by his late wife four years ago and never returned. Today's Asbury Park Press has a lengthy piece about David Goldman of Tinton Falls, who has been...

A boat nears a dolphin in the Shrewsbury River early last summer, before the pod headed upriver along the Navesink. The Asbury Park Press is reporting that dolphins have been spotted in the Shrewsbury River in recent days, giving rise...

Pressing ahead with a campaign to address alcohol and drug abuse, Red Bank Regional High will host a two-pronged program Thursday. At 7p, John Underwood, president of the American Athletic Institute, will give a presentation for parents in the school...

From left, with their new ranks: Lt. Daniel Bannon; Sgt. Robert Gannon; Capt. Thomas McDonough; Lt. Eliot Ramos; Capt. Darren McConnell; Sgt. Robert Kennedy; Lt. Richard Mangold and Sgt. Errico Vescio. (Click to enlarge) Following through on a recent department...

A judgment of that size could hit home at the Bongiovanni residence on the Middletown side of the Navesink. A Boston-area man has filed a $400 billion lawsuit against Bon Jovi, Major League Baseball and TBS over a song he...

You gotta be in it for your candidate to win it. It's deadline time for citizens who want a voice that counts in the Nov. 4 elections. New Jersey law requires that would-be voters register no less than 21 days...

The kids were wide-eyed, learning how to use fire extinguishers, how to drop-and-roll, and how to escape from a smoke-filled house — in this case, a specially-rigged mobile home. But the adults also no doubt learned a thing or two...

Unedited entries from the Red Bank Police Department crime blotter for the week of October 3 to October 10. Theft occurring between 10-5-08 and 10-6-08 at Count Basie Field. Victim reported that his cell phone T Mobile Sidekick Slide, color...