Monthly Archives: October 2008

The view downriver from the Oceanic Bridge, the route the remaining dolphins would need to travel to reach the Shrewsbury River and, ultimately, Sandy Hook Bay. Federal marine experts this afternoon outlined two acoustics-based approaches to moving the remaining bottlenose...

Jesus Navarro of Cali Painting, Long Branch, adds some white shine to a picket fence along Fair Haven Road in Fair Haven this morning. Sun, sun, sun: that's what the weatherlady is saying the weekend holds in store. We've gotten...

Closing post offices at lunchtime is "stupid," says Red Banker Tom Salmon. It's a loaded question, but it begs to be asked: is the U.S. Postal Service deliberately courting outrage among its customers? How else to explain the newest changes...

A boater stands for a better look at dolphins near the Oceanic Bridge Wednesday afternoon. (Click to enlarge) The deaths of two dolphins in recent weeks has prompted a telephone confab among marine and federal officials to consider whether and...

'The Laramie Project' is back in Monmouth County — minus, so far, any hint of the outrage that made it a hot topic last year in Ocean Township. That's when the high school principal and the district superintendent tried putting...

Incumbent Republican Grace Cangemi, left, and running mate John Tyler Jr., right square off against Ed Zipprich and Juanita Lewis, center, at next week's candidates' forum. (Click to enlarge) Big night for the politically tuned-in next Wednesday — particularly those...

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A State Police Marine Unit boat travels east along the Navesink yesterday afternoon, shortly after receiving the report of a dead dolphin on the Middletown side. The decomposed corpse of a young dolphin was found in the Navesink River yesterday,...

Firefighters and other emergency personnel from a handful of towns were on the scene of a midmorning residential fire at 105 Rumson Road in Little Silver Wednesday. As of about 10:45a, the fire, said to have started in the basement,...

Mark Mahon of Lincroft soaks up some rays while laying down some twang at Riverside Gardens Park in Red Bank yesterday. We've got a fine fall day on tap today, according to the National Weather Service, with mostly sunny skies...

Red Bank police say they arrested a gloved man yesterday afternoon shortly after he emerged from a Bank Street house he had broken into, according to the Asbury Park Press. The suspect, Christopher J. Melendez, 21, of Asbury Park, was...

A Red Bank man was among three Monmouth County residents indicted yesterday in an alleged attempt to defraud mortgage lenders of $4 million, the Asbury Park Press reports. Thirty-six-year-old Kevin Deickman of Red Bank — no street address given —...

A 22-year-year-old championship swimmer died early Sunday while on a visit to Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., according to Lancasteronline. The cause of his death remains a mystery, the newspaper reports. From the article: Police were called to...

Gilda Rogers in her new coffeehouse/bookstore on Shrewsbury Avenue. Gilda Rogers wants to get conversations started — real conversations, about politics, race, sexuality, whatever it is that divides people. So she's started a new bookstore called Frank Talk Art Bistro...

Riverview Medical Center bought the former Worden-Hoidal Funeral Home facility in July for $2.3 million. Coming soon to East Front Street: another empty lot. Riverview Medical Center has asked Red Bank for a permit to demolish a longtime funeral home...

Expect some 'slight discoloration,' the borough says. A program of flushing out the Red Bank water system began last night and will continue through November 7, according to a notice from the borough's water utility. The activity will be limited...

Almost totally obscured by scaffolding all summer, the view from the BasieCam this morning reveals a made-over performance space as it nears completion. (Click to enlarge) Taking a major step in its against-the-clock interior renovation project, workers at the Count...

Red Bank firefighters responded quickly to a house fire on Elm Place fire in April. The Red Bank Volunteer Fire Department will host its eighth annual fire-prevention expo and barbecue in the White Street municipal lot next Sunday from 11a...

Unedited entries from the Red Bank Police Department records for last week. Theft occurring on 9-26-08 at Chestnut St. – Train Station Parking lot. Victim reported that unknown person smashed driver’s side window gaining entry into parked vehicle and stole...

Alan Placer on what used be called the roof but he now calls the "third floor" of Hobbymasters — the floor that makes money from the sun. The solar panels are all in, and by this time next week, Arlene...