RED BANK: MOTORCYCLIST HURT IN CRASH
A Florida motorcyclist was injured after colliding with a car while riding in Red Bank Tuesday evening, police Chief Darren McConnell tells redbankgreen.
LITTLE SILVER: SERVICE SUSPECTED IN FIRE
Fire officials were investigating the cause of small electrical fire in a home on Seven Bridges Road in Little Silver Tuesday afternoon.
RED BANK: POWER OUT AFTER POLES SNAP
Jersey Central Power & Light’s outage map showed electricity out for up to 100 Red Bank customers Friday following an early-morning incident in which two utility poles on Maple Avenue snapped.
RED BANK: DRIVER CHARGED IN CAR V. POLE
A car took out a utility pole on Spring Street in Red Bank early Tuesday morning, landing its driver in legal trouble. (Photo by Trish Russoniello. Click to enlarge.)
RUMSON: COUPLE DIE IN MOTORCYCLE CRASH
The accident occurred near the intersection of Navesink Avenue and Ridge Road/Hartshorne Lane. (Google Map. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
A Red Bank woman — a daughter of a former Riverview Medical Center president — and her boyfriend were killed in a motorcycle crash in Rumson Saturday evening, authorities said Monday.
LITTLE SILVER: SPOTLIGHT ON NARROW LANE
Church Lane runs alongside the Embury Methodist Church cemetery. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Not for the first time, Little Silver officials have taken up the question of what to do with a short, narrow roadway that’s a vestige of 19th-century life.
Some residents want it turned into a one-way to address the issue of today’s “humongous” family cars.
RED BANK: “TENACIOUS’ INSPECTOR CITED
Fire inspector Frank Woods, flanked by Mayor Pasquale Menna and Councilman Hazim Yassin, was honored for averting possible catastrophe at an apartment complex. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
A “tenacious” Red Bank employee won recognition from the borough council Wednesday night for efforts that officials said headed off a possible disaster at an apartment complex last month.
SANDY HOOK: BOOZE BANNED
The first year of the ban will focus on educating the public about the change, though repeat offenders will face fines, officials said. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Suntanning beachgoers and devotees of the summertime concerts at Sandy Hook can kiss their favorite alcoholic beverages goodbye.
Citing 328 alcohol-related incidents between 2016 and 2018, officials have banned all forms of booze from the waterfront park, the last public beach in New Jersey where it was still allowed.
RED BANK: NO INJURIES IN CAR FIRE
The driver and occupants, if any, of car that caught fire while being driven on Maple Avenue in Red Bank escaped without injury shortly after midnight Tuesday. The vehicle, a Mercedes, was destroyed. Further details weren’t immediately available. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
RED BANK: PICKUP ROLLS IN CRASH
A pickup truck wound up on its side and missing a wheel, but no serious injuries occurred in a two-vehicle accident on Maple Avenue at Irving Place at about 2:45 p.m. Friday, said Red Bank police Chief Darren McConnell. Details were not immediately available. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
RED BANK & FAIR HAVEN: SOLDIER HONORED
Hundreds of students and teachers from Red Bank Catholic High and St. James School stood in silent honor as a funeral procession for a 2015 RBC graduate passed their campus Monday morning.
Pfc. Jamie R. Riley, 21, of Fair Haven, right, was one of two Army soldiers soldiers who died in a crash involving two military vehicles during a training exercise in New Mexico January 22.
Fair Haven residents also paid tribute, gathering on Harding Road as the cortege headed to Tower Hill Presbyterian Church, where services were held. Interment at Arlington National Cemetery was to follow.
Last week, Governor Phil Murphy ordered flags be lowered to half-staff in honor of Riley, who joined the Army a year ago and served as a cavalry scout. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
FAIR HAVEN: SOLDIER DIES IN CRASH
A Fair Haven man was one of two soldiers from Fort Bliss in Texas killed in a crash involving two military vehicles Tuesday night, according to a report published in the Army Times.
RED BANK: WOMAN FLEES STOP, CRASHES CAR
An Atlantic Highlands motorist was injured after she fled an attempted stop by Little Silver police and crashed into a tree in Red Bank early Christmas morning, police said.
LITTLE SILVER: TWOFER SALE AT SICKLES?
No one was injured, police said, when a Mercedes SUV and a sedan wound up in the same parking space, one atop the other, at Sickles Market in Little Silver shortly after noon Friday.
Volunteer firefighters from Little Silver and Red Bank were on the scene, working to separate the vehicles, which had a light pole pinned between them. Police were investigating the cause of the accident. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN STRUCK
By JOHN T. WARD
A Red Bank woman suffered a minor injury when she was struck by a minivan while crossing Bridge Avenue in Red Bank on foot Tuesday night, according to police Chief Darren McConnell.
FAIR HAVEN: BOY ON BIKE STRUCK BY VEHICLE
The accident occurred on Hance Road near Forman Street, just a few blocks north of the Knollwood School, according to a passerby. (Image from Google Maps. Click to enlarge.)
A Fair Haven child on a bicycle suffered “significant” but non-life-threatening injuries when struck by a vehicle shortly after dismissal from school Thursday, officials said.
The unidentified nine-year-old boy, a student at the Knollwood School on Hance Road, appeared to have been hit by a van that remained at the scene of crash, on Hance near Forman Street, a passerby told redbankgreen.
RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN STRUCK
By JOHN T. WARD
A Red Bank woman was struck by a vehicle while crossing a busy downtown intersection Thursday evening, police Chief Darren McConnell tells redbankgreen.
RED BANK: CYCLIST HIT ON MAPLE AVENUE
By JOHN T. WARD
A Red Bank man was hospitalized after he steered his bike into the path of a motor vehicle and was struck Tuesday night, police said Wednesday.
RED BANK: NO INJURIES IN SALON CRASH
No injuries were reported after a car crashed through the facade of the Luxe Nail Salon on North Bridge Avenue in Red Bank at around 3:20 p.m. Tuesday, according to police Chief Darren McConnell.
RED BANK: VAN STRIKES RESTAURANT ENTRY
A van struck a two parked vehicles, sending one about 20 feet down West Front Street, according to a person on the scene, and then smashed into the West Front Street entrance of Brothers Restaurant in Red Bank shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday.
RED BANK: RAIL SPAN CLAIMS TWO MORE
Some things you can count on in this life: death, taxes and embarrassing encounters between oversized vehicles and the West Front Street railroad bridge in Red Bank.
FAIR HAVEN: TOWN RALLIES FOR INJURED COP
Patrolman Dwayne Reevey, below, with his wife, Christine, and their young son in a recent photo. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Fair Haven residents have rallied for a borough police officer who is reported to have broken his neck in an swimming accident on the Fourth of July.
Patrolman Dwayne Reevey suffered the injury while swimming in the Atlantic Ocean, according to a Go Fund Me campaign launched Friday.
FAIR HAVEN: CRASH SHUTS ROAD
Fair Haven police expected a portion of Hance Road to be closed overnight Sunday for utility repairs after a car struck a pole near Third Street around 3:30 p.m., police said.
RED BANK: BERGEN PLACE MAKEOVER NEARS
The intersection of Broad Street and East Bergen Place was racked with potholes Tuesday morning, shortly before a borough crew arrived to do some patching. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
One of Red Bank’s nastiest pothole clusters got a temporary fix Tuesday.
A more permanent one is in the works, borough officials said.
RED BANK: LIVE WIRE LANDS ON VAN
Charlie Velazquez said he was “still shaking” after his near brush with death. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
A Middlesex County man said he was “lucky to be alive” after a live electrical line landed on the van he was driving in Red Bank Wednesday morning. Read More