Monthly Archives: May 2009

View Larger Map What: The annual Fair Haven Fishing Derby. Where: McCarter Pond, Fair Haven Road. When: Saturday, 8:30a registration, 9a start. Need to know: Admission is free. Please bring a pole, bait and tackle. Prizes will be given in...

Co-authors Candace Sandy,left and Dawn Marie Daniels make an afternoon appearance at Frank Talk Art & Bistro Books. What: Dawn Marie Daniels and Candace Sandy, co-authors of "Soul of My Sisters: Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their Stories and...

Friday marks the second night of the four-night event. What: Second annual Sea Bright Firemen's Fair. Where: The former Peninsula House parking lot, 1099 Ocean Ave. When: Began Thursday and runs through Sunday. Hours are 6p to 11p Friday; 6p...

A print by Giorgio Sommer of a casting of a dog that died in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in year A.D. 79 is part of the display. What: Opening night of exhibition "The Albumen Photographs of Giorgio Sommer." Where:...

The library as seen from the foot of Maple Avenue. Ending tradition, the Red Bank Public Library will be open on Saturdays this summer, its board of trustees announced Thursday night. The added hours, from 9a to 1p, will be...

Gary Watson, in blue shirt at center, met with residents at the River Street Commons. About a dozen Red Bankers turned out Thursday night to hear borough public works director Gary Watson discuss the whys and wherefores of rules governing...

"Too easy," Alicia Woods says of last week's Where Have I Seen This? "Covered sign on the closed Exxon station on Branch Ave. across from the train station in Little Silver." Indeed it is, as readers Memone Crystian, Jenn Woods,...

Now rubbing elbows in oRBit: a buzz-generating band of twentysomething musical talents and a favorite local artist who marks her 90th birthday this weekend. Hailing from Middletown and Highlands, A Love Like Pi celebrates the release of its ambitious debut...

Lenny, er, Stew Goldstein of Monmouth Meats. There are only so many old-style, independent butchers left in Red Bank. There's Ralph 'Johnny Jazz' Gatta on Shrewsbury Avenue, of course, working the chopping block for some 60 years. The guys at...

Mayor-elect Mike Skudera, right, with Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna at the KaBoom Fireworks fundraiser last month. Four years after winning a spot on the borough council, 32-year-old Mike Skudera was elected mayor of Tinton Falls yesterday in an upset...

Sale prices on existing homes in the area that includes Monmouth County plunged 11.3 percent in the first quarter, today's Absury Park Press reports. The National Association of Realtors pegged the median home price in the Central Jersey region at...

The City Centre strip mall at Maple Avenue and West Front Street is one of five properties under common ownership that will see lower tax bills. The Red Bank Council last night greenlighted settlements of five tax appeal lawsuits, but...

A now-disbarred Red Bank lawyer faces up to seven years in state prison after pleading guilty yesterday to stealing $300,000 from trust accounts for clients, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office. Gary Edelson, 48, formerly of Red Bank, entered...

Today's Red Bank oRBit tourbus offers up an exclusive chat — yes, it's a talking bus — with a true living legend of show business: Uncle Floyd Vivino, fabled farouk of local cable and UHF broadcasts, and a man who...

At last night's borough council meeting, Human Relations Committee chairman David Pascale showed off t-shirts that the committee plans to sell at the second annual Red Bank Day celebration this Saturday. The shirts are available in a handful of designs...

A public works department database contains photos of violations, like this heap of curbside furniture. Red Bank residents hoping never to get stung —or restung — with a ticket for violating borough laws governing curbside brush, leaves and bulk items...

Today's Asbury Park Press takes a look at how some New Jersey school districts, including those of Red Bank and Fair Haven, are responding to the high cost of sending children with special needs out-of-district. The approach in Red Bank,...

Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit takes a close look at High School Reunion: The Musical, the latest original show by local-kids-made-good Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. They're the Emmy-nominated TV writers and producers who return to Monmouth County...

Fans of women's basketball take note: a semi-pro league has established a new team that will use the Salvation Army gym in Red Bank as its home court. The Jersey Fusion is one of the latest members of the Women's...

Scenes from last year's post-parade picnic on Centennial Day, the precursor to Saturday's Red Bank Day. (Click to enlarge) At the picnic that followed the parade for Red Bank's Centennial last year, Mayor Pasquale Menna was telling everyone he wanted...