RED BANK: NEW EMT SERVICE TAKES OVER
Alert Ambulance’s rig will replace MONOC’s at the former Relief Engine firehouse on Drummond Place starting Monday. (Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Beginning January 1, Red Bank 911 calls for on-scene emergency medical care will be answered by a different ambulance service.
RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAPS ON BITTER NOTE
At the end of his final meeting on the dais, Stanley Sickels embraces Councilman Mark Taylor as Councilman Mike Whelan looks on. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
The Red Bank council ended its 2017 session in acrimony Wednesday night as Republicans accused Democrats of politicizing the replacement of Stanley Sickels as borough administrator.
RED BANK: APARTMENT PROJECT BEGINS
A decade after a nursing home was demolished there, site work has begun on an empty lot near the heart of downtown Red Bank.
What’s Going On Here? Click ‘read more’ to find out. (Photo by John T. Ward.. Click to enlarge)
ON THE GREEN: ICY COLD TAKES HOLD
The freezing temperatures that have gripped the Greater Red Bank Green in recent days aren’t going away for least a week, according to the National Weather Service.
RED BANK: NORTH POLE CALLING
RBR students Stacy Osorio, on the phone above, making pre-Christmas calls with Stacey Tepoz from Santa’s workshop (borough hall) earlier this month. Below, Heather O’Donnell cracks up after calling a wrong number with Emily Maier. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
Press release from Red Bank Regional High:
Little Silver: A big part of the Christmas season for little girls and boys is visiting Santa Claus and reciting him their Christmas wish list. That is not always possible for some boys and girls in the Red Bank community, especially those whose families do not own or drive cars and can’t take them to visit the local mall, where Santa usually sets up shop. So nine years ago, community leader David Prown, assisted by his good friend Enrico Ciabattoni, facilitated a special communication with Santa Claus and those kids in Red Bank he might have missed.
RED BANK: NOW TAKING TAX PREPAYMENTS
By JOHN T. WARD
Red Bank has joined Belmar, Jersey City and other New Jersey municipalities in encouraging residents to consider reducing the impact of the newly adopted federal tax plan on their wallets.
How? By prepaying local property taxes before the end of 2018.
RED BANK: A SLIGHTLY WHITE CHRISTMAS?
Will the Greater Red Bank Green get a coating of white for Christmas?
There’s a 60-percent chance of it, according to the National Weather Service.
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RED BANK: GIANT KETTLE ROLLS INTO TOWN
What’s unofficially billed as the world’s largest Salvation Army donation-collection kettle is scheduled to make a couple of Red Bank appearances in the days leading up to Christmas.
SHREWSBURY: TURNER TAKES PD COMMAND
Chief Bobby Turner has spent his entire career with the borough police department. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
The son of a Long Branch police officer shot in the line of duty is Shrewsbury’s new police chief.
Bobby Turner says he entered college thinking he’d become a social worker or teacher, and even spent a few years pointing in that direction careerwise.
LITTLE SILVER: MAN JAILED FOR $9M THEFT
By JOHN T. WARD
A financial advisor who resides in Little Silver was sentenced to up to seven and a half years in prison last week for scamming $9 million in client funds.
John Rogicki, 67, must spend a minimum two and a half years behind bars for his crimes under a sentence handed down Thursday in New York, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office told redbankgreen.
RED BANK: CRIMES AND ARRESTS
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of December 1 to December 15, 2017. This information is unedited. For additional information, please scroll to the bottom of this post.
CRIMES
Theft: On 12/08/17 in the area of Spring St it was reported a package delivered to a doorstep was cut from the bottom and items were taken from the package. The package is valued at $79.00. Ptl. Nicholas Maletto.
RED BANK: SMITHEREENS SHOW TO GO ON
The Count Basie Theatre will go ahead with a planned January 13 concert despite the death last week of Smithereens lead singer Pat DiNizio, the Red Bank venue announced Monday.
RED BANK: GAS LEAK DELAYS OPENING
Red Bank volunteer firefighters responded to a report of a gas leak that was expected to delay the opening of the Monmouth Day Care Center Monday morning.
RED BANK: MILD WEATHER FORECAST
After three snowfalls in a week, autumn 2017 winds down on the Greater Red Bank Green with unexceptional weather.
RED BANK: ANIMA OPENS, CAFÉ REBRANDS
Women’s clothing store Anima has opened in the former home of a Duxiana bedding shop. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
We’ve got a new women’s boutique, a new gym and a new name for a restaurant in this edition of redbankgreen‘s Retail Churn.
RED BANK: THIRD SNOWFALL FORECAST
A third late-autumn snowfall in the span of a week could lay up to three inches on the Greater Red Bank Green starting late Friday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. (Click to enlarge.)
Click ‘read more’ for dull details on the weekend and beyond, weatherwise.
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RED BANK: SICKELS LAUDED FOR ‘COMMITMENT’
Stanley Sickels at Wednesday night’s council meeting, above, and on the scene of a fire in September, 2014, below. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Red Bank’s mayor and council gave a warm, low-key sendoff to the the borough government’s top unelected official Wednesday night.
Over a career in municipal operations that began in 1979 and spanned numerous paid and volunteer roles, Administrator Stanley Sickels was a “consummate professional” who earned a reputation that went “way beyond the reach of Red Bank,” Mayor Pasquale Menna told the audience at the governing body’s semimonthly meeting.
RED BANK: SMITHEREENS SINGER DIES
Two days after the Count Basie Theatre announced that the Red Bank venue would unveil a new ‘club’ format with a January 13 concert by the Smithereens, the band’s lead singer has died, according to a Tuesday post on the band’s website.
RED BANK: SICKELS SENDOFF, H2O ON AGENDA
Stanley Sickels at a planning board meeting in 2013. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Red Bank’s most powerful unelected official is slated to get an official sendoff at the semimonthly council meeting Wednesday night.
Also on the agenda: the town’s heaviest water users would be subject to higher minimum charges under a measure slated for introduction.
RED BANK: GUSTY CONDITIONS FORECAST
A pair of gulls at Marine Park in Red Bank Monday. They’ll have more wind beneath their wings starting Tuesday evening, according to the Weather Channel. (Photo by Trish Russoniello. Click to enlarge.)
RED BANK: SNOW ADDS MAGIC TO LIGHT-UP
The first snowfall of the season added to the magical air of the Christmas tree lighting event at Ralph ‘Johnny Jazz’ Gatta Park in Red Bank Saturday.
The event, organized by the borough Parks & Rec department, featured a visit by Santa Claus, who arrived by fire truck. Were you there? Check out redbankgreen‘s photos from the event below. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN STRUCK
By JOHN T. WARD
A Rumson woman suffered a non-traumatic head injury when she was struck by a vehicle while crossing Broad Street in Red Bank on foot Thursday afternoon, according to police Chief Darren McConnell.
RED BANK: RAID NETS HEROIN, OTHER DRUGS
Police at the scene of Friday’s predawn raid on St. Nicholas Place. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
A Red Bank man and woman were arrested on drug manufacturing and dealing charges following a predawn raid on their East Side residence Friday, Chief Darren McConnell tells redbankgreen.
Executing a knock-and-announce warrant on the house at 20 St. Nicholas Place shortly before 6 a.m., police broke through the front door and confiscated an undetermined quantity of heroin, crack cocaine, ecstasy and a small amount of marijuana, McConnell said.
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