Monthly Archives: December 2008

The building, nearing completion, stands on the former site of Dorn's Photography and several old houses. The developer of The Metropolitan, a 37-unit condo project on Wallace Street in Red Bank, will auction off 31 of them at deeply slashed...

Sea Bright's town hall will have to make room for a court operation now housed in a trailer out back. By SUE MORGAN Less than two weeks before a deadline, Sea Bright officials are sending to a Superior Court judge...

A winter storm is expected to roll through New Jersey today. Up to an inch or two of snow may accumulate by tonight, says the National Weather Service, which has a winter weather advisory in effect until midnight. While much...

It's practically snowing holiday benefit shows out there this time of year, and the music desk at Red Bank oRBit has been working overtime in recent days to keep a clear path for readers. The offerings include tonight's Holiday Express...

A cadre of ready-for-winter 'Where' regulars had no trouble identifying last week's image. From Michele Lombard, who's apparently electrified by what the object in the photo portends: COULD IT BE OUR TOWN's Prized Logo, the ICEBOAT IN FULL HOLIDAY REGALIA????AH,...

Students from Red Bank Regional will soon have the option of leaving their class ranking off college applications under a measure approved last night by the school's board, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: Red Bank Regional follows...

A dolphin exhibited a feeding behavior dubbed "mouth open" in the Shrewsbury on Tuesday. (NOAA photo) Marine scientists remain convinced that the 12 Atlantic bottlenose dolphins still in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers six months after their arrival are neither...

HOV HQ on West Front Street, Red Bank. A near stoppage in mortgage lending drove Hovnanian Enterprises to its ninth consecutive quarterly loss in the period ending October 31, the Red Bank-based homebuilder reported yesterday. According to Bloomberg, the loss...

Dolphins in the upper Shrewsbury in late June, shortly after their arrival. Amid concern that a pod of dolphins may be imperiled by by falling temperatures in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers, federal marine officials have scheduled a conference call...

Tuesday's cold rain, seen through a windshield on Red Bank's Tilton Avenue, turned into big wet flakes, as seen on River Road in Fair Haven. (Click to enlarge) Yesterday's mix of rain and snow has given way to rain again....

After a day of shirtsleeve weather Monday, it's back to late fall-early winter temperatures today. Red Bank stores and restaurants had their doors thrown open Monday as pedestrians enjoyed temperatures north of 60 degrees. The brief taste of unseasonable warmth...

The exterior is just about finished at Union Street Village. But as indicated by the' sample' list of residents in the intercom, the eight condo units as well as a commercial space remain vacant. News that three players in Red...

Unedited entries from the desk log of the Red Bank Police Department for the week of December 5 through 12. Theft occurring on 12-6-08 in the area of White Street. Victim reported that unknown person(s) stole her brown leather purse...

It's hitting the gut now. The spreading economic crisis is leaving tens of millions of Americans facing the prospect of hunger as they contend with diminished earnings or joblessness and worse. According to one estimate, more than 35 million Americans...

A view of the Navesink from Bank Street. Thanks largely to a YouTube video recorded by a Bank Street resident, a condo plan approved recently by the Red Bank zoning board will have to provide clearly marked public access to...

Hard to believe, but the Fleshtones — one of the best practitioners of "a genre that we invented ourselves," according to frontman Peter Zaremba — have been at it for more than three decades, wreaking musical havoc on stages the...

One of the small pleasures of this feature comes from the variety of answers that readers sometimes submit regarding the same image. Last week's 'Where' was an example. One thought it showed the yard of a home on the Middletown...

Concerns about an effort to drum up funds for a Fair Haven government employees' holiday party prompted Borough Administrator Mary Howell to issue a letter telling business owners there are no repercussions for declining to contribute. Because of "miscommunicated" information,...

What turned out to be a 15-minute cloudburst rolled south toward Red Bank late Wednesday afternoon in this view from the foot of Maple Avenue. We're in for a soggy day and a half or so before the sun comes...

He'd be 93 years young this Friday, the Chairman of the Board. Alas, Hoboken's most famous export died a decade ago. But a dozen singers will honor Frank Sinatra that night by interpreting many of the tunes he made famous,...