Yearly Archives: 2008

Not-so-stiff upper lips: R-FH Superintendent Pete Righi, far left, with teachers Tom Toohey, Darren Beatty, Zack Wilson and Tom Highton. It's crunch time at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High, where five staffers remain in a mustache-growing competition for charity. The contest...

A frozen turkey ready for pickup near boxes packed with soup, stuffing, canned fruit, vegetables and pies at the Salvation Army facility on Newman Springs Road yesterday. The Red Bank Corps of the Salvation Army gave out frozen turkeys and...

A Fair Haven man whose daughter was denied health insurance coverage for treatment of anorexia was part of a milestone settlement in a federal class-action lawsuit announced yesterday, today's Star-Ledger reports. Ronald Drazin was the lead plaintiff in the case,...

An investigation has been launched in Hunterdon County into the death of a disabled Little Silver woman who died two months after being removed from a state-licensed home for developmentally disabled adults, today's Star-Ledger reports. Twenty-six-year-old Tara Leary, who was...

Cindy Burnham confers with engineer Christine Ballard of T&M Associates about the Maple Street riverfront lot after Monday night's council meeting. A scaled-down version of a proposed plastic bag recycling law was tabled, and plans for a community center moved...

All evidence of this year's race was gone from Broad Street by 10:35a. It's a rite of winter. The organizers of the George Sheehan Classic ask the Red Bank Council to green-light its annual five-mile race and related activities downtown....

By SUE MORGAN Rose Greco doesn't own a boat, but felt it necessary to stand up Monday night for boat owners who might not completely understand the wording of proposed revisions to the Fair Haven's boat storage ordinance. "It's ambivalent,"...

The scene at Monmouth and West Streets at 1:30p today. A motorist avoided serious injury this afternoon when her car veered off Monmouth Street into the onetime waiting room of a long-shuttered service station at the corner of West Street....

Members of the DeFazio family — Luba, Val and their daughter, Lara — watch as a crane lifts the 28-year-old Colorado blue spruce from their front yard on Tower Hill Avenue in Red Bank yesterday. (Click pix to enlarge) The...

After repeated and unsuccessful efforts by Councilman Mike DuPont to ban Red Bank stores from distributing plastic bags, the borough council tonight is scheduled to take up a series of scaled-back measures aimed at fostering recycling and education. On the...

Volunteers cleared the lot of debris in June. (Click to enlarge) The last remaining point of direct public access to the Navesink River in Red Bank has been preserved, capping an effort launched earlier this year by a Fair Haven...

Red Bank oRBit delivers another carload of entertainment goods today, with a particular focus on actor and Red Bank native Peter Dobson's sort-of debut as a filmmaker. He'll be showing a 15-minute, compressed version of a yet-to-be-made feature film set...

While federal wildlife hold off on trying to rescue a pod of dolphins that's been in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers for the past five months, the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine has rescued a green sea turtle from...

Crossing guard and eternal kid Carl Colmorgen wears a roasted-turkey hat at his post at the corner of Broad Street and Harding Road in Red Bank yesterday. (Click to enlarge) A roasted poultry hat might be just the thing to...

The Asbury Park Press has some details on the police search for a burglary suspect redbankgreen reported on yesterday. The newspaper says that the subject of the search, which involved a helicopter and police dogs, was a 26-year-old man wanted...

The U.S. economy may be smashing into a wall, but Rumson's Mickey Gooch — owner of and columnist at the Two River Times, sometime quarrelsome neighbor and Wall Street billionaire — is still doing just fine, thank you very much,...

Two weeks after the election, Amy Mallet of Fair Haven has won a seat on the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders, tipping the majority in favor of Democrats for the first time in a generation, the Asbury Park Press...

We Are Scientists, just one offering on a busy calendar of entertainment options this weekend. An entertainment cornucopia disgorges its goods this weekend, and Red Bank oRBit has the details on what's happening where. Among the offerings: • Rasputina, a...

Another terrific turnout of responses came in on last week's picture. Among the 18 answers we received were just two misfires. One reader thought it was a display from the counter of the 7-11 on Branch Avenue in Little Silver;...

A search helicopter (upper right) flies over Route 35 near Nicholas Restaurant Wednesday afternoon. Police from Middletown and Red Bank, aided by a helicopter and search dogs, were out in southern Middletown in search of burglary suspect this afternoon. Homeowners...