Monthly Archives: February 2009

Pim Van Hemmen at home in Fair Haven. By JoANN PILEGGI Just past the crack of dawn several days a week, Pim Van Hemmen can be seen running at a good clip through Fair Haven. But he's running a little...

A bookkeeper for the firm that publishes Red Bank Red Hot magazine faces up to ten years in prison on charges of stealing $470,000 from the firm over two years, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor. Rebecca Cirillo, 32, of...

A seagull takes in the view of the choppy Navesink River (wasn't it just a sheet of ice?) at Marine Park in Red Bank. Across the region, emergency personnel are responding to burglar alarms and reports of downed limbs. At...

No, I insist — after you: access holes to the Chestnut Street tanks are only about 16 inches wide. Red Bank officials are racing this month for a piece of the federal stimulus dole as a way of reducing the...

Sovereign Bancorp's Broad Street branch got a reduction in its tax bill. Assorted items and actions from Monday night's Red Bank Council meeting: • The council approved a tax appeal settlement that reduced the assessment on the Sovereign Bank property...

The item highlighted in last week's 'Where' seems to have something of a doppleganger nearby, leading our respondents to split their answers. About half of those who wrote in thought the pictures showed lighting fixtures at the Salt Creek Grille...

The suspects, from left: alleged gunman Antonio Domingo 'Mingo' Suarez-Perez; Samson Theodore 'Freedom' Hearn; and Eric Joel 'Pun' Figueras. A chain of events that began as chance meeting at a local gas station ended with the "brutal" murders of two...

Town officials are talking about taking a bulldozer to two houses on the site of the approved-but-not-begun Courtyard at Monmouth complex of apartments, stores and offices. Calling them "a blight on the community," Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna and members...

Mayor Menna wants the borough to hand off signmaking, health inspections and other tasks to Monmouth County. Should Red Bank job out to Monmouth County services now provided by borough employees or contractors? Coming off a recent deal with the...

A neighbor tells the Press that one man was dead in the street, the other in a car. Two Red Bank men and a Fair Haven man were arrested and charged in connection with the predawn shooting that left two...

A dolphin in the Shrewsbury River in November. The federal agency in charge of protecting the dolphins that took up residence in the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers last June says it has no evidence that any are left in the...

The crime scene on Locust Avenue this morning. A suspect in this morning's double homicide on Red Bank's West Side is in custody, redbankgreen has learned. The information came from a knowledgeable source. The suspect, we're told, was located using...

Investigators on the scene on Locust Avenue, which remained closed between Leighton Avenue and Leighton Place at midmorning. The Monmouth County Prosecutor's office hasn't released any new information about this morning's apparent double homicide in Red Bank except to say...

Evidence markers in the middle of Locust Avenue during this morning's investigation. The Asbury Park Press, quoting a spokesman for the Monmouth County Prosecutor, says two men were murdered on Locust Avenue early this morning. Here's the report: Two men...

The website Red Bank officials want to replace. Looks like Red Bankers will be stuck with the borough's clunky website for a while longer. Two weeks ago, Mayor Pasquale Menna announced that the borough would be getting a new website...

Police at the corner of Locust and Leighton avenues at about 7:15a. Red Bank police closed off Locust Avenue Tuesday morning as they investigated an undisclosed crime. An officer on the scene tells us only that there's "an active investigation"...

David Goldman with his son, Sean, who was taken to Brazil on "vacation" by his late wife four years ago and never returned. David Goldman, the Tinton Falls man whose child custody battle has attracted national attention, finally got to...

The vessel numbered 1 is one of four tanks at the Chestnut Street water plant that the state says must be replaced. Three others are at the Tower Hill facility. Maintenance work at the Red Bank water utility that was...

Sutton Commons on Branch Avenue is one of two properties on which tax appeal settlements are up for approval by the Red Bank Council tonight. An ordinance to bar minors from entering liquor stores unless accompanied by an adult is...

Employees of McGhee Contracting, hoisted into position by a lift, hammer away at RBC's stack Saturday morning. Demolition of Red Bank Catholic's smokestack got underway Saturday, a few days earlier than expected. Tim McGhee, owner of McGhee Contracting in Oceanport,...