Category Archives: Education

A parade that was to have preceded tonight's football showdown between Red Bank Regional and Red Bank Catholic high schools at Count Basie Field has been called because of rain. The game is still scheduled for a 7p kickoff, but...

Wanted for a proposed center at this borough-owned building: a management entity. A task force formed earlier this year to suss out the potential costs of a Red Bank community center got a green light last night from the borough...

By SUE MORGAN With the tuition tab for each of about 27 students that Sea Bright sends to the Shore Regional High School District coming in at $81,000 for the 2008-09 academic year, borough officials say they will keep pushing...

A side-view mirror from the bus lies on the ground and the crumbled pickup truck is visible in the intersection, above. Below, damage to the bus shows the impact was in the area of the driver's seat. A pickup truck...

Elba Vasquez gives her 4-year-old son, Axel, a goodby kiss as he boards the bus for his first day of school as a pre-K student at the Red Bank Primary School this morning. Below, Gene and Dawn Potts of Madison...

Of 316 public high schools in New Jersey, Rumson-Fair Haven ranks 30th in overall quality and Red Bank Regional is 64th, according to a Monmouth University analysis reported in this month's issue of New Jersey Monthly magazine. R-FH moved up...

About 100 people turned out for Monday night's meeting on consolidating police work on the peninsula. According to a show of hands, most were officers or their relatives. You're not showing us any real savings. You're creating a new bureaucracy,...

Elmer Jackson, fuzzier, lighter and still wearing his helmet, was all smiles Thursday. A 111-mile sprint took him from the outskirts of Wilmington, Delaware to Freehold, New Jersey Tuesday. Elmer Jackson just wanted to be home after pedaling his way...

Elmer Jackson and his son, Jeff (in red shirt) make their triumphal return up Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank Thursday afternoon after a cross-country bike tour that began in San Francisco June 3. The event, involving a police and fire...

Andrew Mencinsky and a brigade of sea paddlers head down the Hudson River last year. They'll be doing the same next week. In May, 2007, a two-mile-wide tornado tore through the town of Greensburg, Kansas, destroying 95 percent of its...

File photo of a Great Start event at the Primary School in 2006. Red Bank parents of children who turn three years old on or before October 1 may be interested in a pair of information sessions on the new...

A 31-year-old Bordentown vice principal has been hired as the new principal of the Markham Place School in Little Silver, today's Press reports. Dennis Morolda, who starts in the $108,000-a-year job on Friday, succeeds Don Merce, who was killed in...

The Asbury Park Press reports today that Terrence Wilkins could retain his certification as a school principal despite a guilty plea in an arson case last month. Because of his eligibility for pre-trial intervention, the former principal of the Red...

Red Bank resident Del Dal Par was named athletic director by the board of Red Bank Regional High, today's Asbury Park Press reports. Dal Par has been working as baseball coach at Ocean Township High for the past nine seasons,...

Elmer Jackson makes it to the peak of a monster incline in Colorado late last month. (Photo courtesy of Tim Hathaway) Two weeks after the sudden departure of their one-man support crew, Elmer and Jeff Jackson's pedalthon from San Francisco...

The Peer Players include (front row, left to right): Tiffany Lewcyk, Stephen Bucco, Forrest Burdett, Katie Kroeper; (middle row) Joseph Kim, Samantha Aurelio, Sara Howard, Christina Lennon, Allison Cloonan, Leah Sugerman, Elizabeth Coulter; (back row) Melissa Cloonan, Danny Cassidy. By...

Terence Wilkins Former Red Bank Middle School Principal Terence Wilkins will avoid a prison sentence following a guilty plea in connection with an arson fraud case in Newark, a spokesman for Essex County Paula Dow confirmed today. Spokesman Paul Loriquet...

Kasandra Ekin By COLLEEN CURRY When I ran into Zebu last week to meet with Kasandra Ekin — Red Bank Regional's highest GPA-ranked senior from Red Bank — I was a little nervous. Besides her class ranking and advanced-placement-loaded transcript,...

Elmer and Jeff Jackson ride through a tunnel in Red Canyon, Utah last Tuesday. (Photos by Tim Hathaway) Tim Hathaway, the journalist who was serving as driver and documentarian for the 'No Regrets' cross-country bike ride of fellow Red Bankers...

A north Jersey man already facing arson and insurance fraud charges with former Red Bank Middle School Principal Terrence Wilkins now faces additional allegations, the Star-Ledger reports. According to a new indictment by an Essex County grand jury, Kenyatta O'Bryant...