Monthly Archives: April 2009

It’s Theater Week of sorts in Red Bank oRBit! It just sort of works out that way, as the coming days see the openings of no fewer than five new productions in the area — all of them worth checking...

Unedited entries from the Red Bank Police Department activity log for the week of March 27 to April 09, 2009. Theft occurring on W Front St on 3/27/2009. Victim reported that stolen from a display case were a number of...

Halfacre, a triathlete, takes a breather in Red Bank after a bike ride last summer. Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre appears to be tuning up for a run against 12th-district Congressman Rush Holt. He's created a political action committee known...

Dan Burzon with his message of hope. redbankgreen's first instinct when we saw Dan Burzon pull a rectangular piece of paper off his car windshield yesterday was to offer condolences for his $38 parking ticket. But it turns out the...

Daffodils in bloom a year ago on River Road in Red Bank. By LAURA KOSS Nothing welcomes spring like daffodils, those happy yellow fellas that seem to pop up everywhere this time of year. "They're the most cost-effective and pest-resistant...

Red Bank crossing guard Carl Colmorgen has been known to get into the spirit of the season with unusual headgear at his post at the corner of Broad Street and Harding Road. Yesterday, he wore rabbit ears supplemented by a...

Believe it or not, Ripley, the rock vixen you see pictured here is none other than Lani Ford, familiar to a few as the traffic reporter for TV's Good Day New York, here in her guise as frontwoman for the...

Those three spheres featured in last week's 'Where' seem to be quite the eye-catchers. Installed outside the TD Ameritrade office on Broad Street (Route 35) at Monroe Avenue in Shrewsbury, they're clearly decorative, and lend a touch of whimsy to...

As noted in a redbankgreen reader comment, the state Attorney General has backed off a plan to fine 81 percent of the state's bowling alleys $3,000 each for violating raffle regulations. From a statement issued by the AG's Consumer Affairs...

Jade Garden restaurant on Broad Street, near Harding Road, was one of seven properties tagged between Monday night and Tuesday morning, police say. A rash of graffiti taggings earlier this week has Red Bank authorities trying to figure out if...

Today's Red Bank oRBit offers up a double feature that spotlights the return of a local classic and a coming-attractions trailer for one of the most highly anticipated sequels in cinema-buff circles. First, we finally get around to answering the...

Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa outside the Count Basie Theatre last May. Almost three years after Bruce Springsteen and wife Patti Scialfa went shopping at the Antique Center of Red Bank to help dispel rumors of a split, a West...

Some six months ahead of schedule, a photo crew and stylists made up a house on Hudson Avenue in Red Bank for Halloween yesterday. Brenda Angelilli, design director for All You magazine, said the setup was for a photo to...

Rumson's future borough hall may be ready for occupancy as early as June 1, Mayor John Ekdahl tells the today's Asbury Park Press after the town council authorized the purchase of $124,000 worth of desks, chairs and other furniture last...

A dolphin in the Shrewsbury River in November. The whitened body of an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin was found near the Route 36 bridge between Highlands and Sea Bright Tuesday and will be examined by federal scientists today to determine if...

Sebastian Sokolowski of Laborers Local 78 stood outside Red Bank Corporate Plaza with a large, inflatable rodent on West Front Street for the second day Tuesday. The union is protesting the hiring of a non-union asbestos abatement contractor on a...

The state Consumer Affairs division took the action as part of a raffle-licensing enforcement. Memory Bowling in Shrewsbury was among 59 bowling alleys statewide cited for conducting 50/50 raffles that violate New Jersey regulations, the state Attorney General's office announced...

Tuesday's Red Bank oRBit brings you an update on the kids from Rockit! For Kids, the Red Bank-based classic rock conservatory whose students have been leaving parents, professional musicians and even Rockit commander Bruce Gallipani "blown away" with their rapidly...

A view of the Count Basie Field grandstand. A Red Bank man remained hospitalized in critical condition with head injuries Monday, two days after police say he jumped off the side of the Count Basie Field grandstand. Manuel Trejo-Martinez, 24,...

Two Red Bank men face long prison sentences after being convicted last week in a 2007 armed robbery of a West Side jewelry store in which the owner, his wife and year-old son were menaced at gunpoint. The verdict, announced...