Category Archives: Misc. Events

First place: The Ferreri residence at 53 South Street. Mayor Pasquale Menna announced the winners of Red Bank's first (in recent memory, at least) holiday home decoration contest Monday night. Only nine homeowners nominated themselves or were nominated by others,...

Concerns about an effort to drum up funds for a Fair Haven government employees' holiday party prompted Borough Administrator Mary Howell to issue a letter telling business owners there are no repercussions for declining to contribute. Because of "miscommunicated" information,...

Some of the finer sounds from downtown Red Bank this Saturday included the voices of fifth-graders from the River Plaza School in Middletown... who sang from the steps of the Children's Cultural Center on Monmouth Street... while members of the...

Scenes from the Westside Community Group's annual tree-lighting ceremony at Westside Park (the triangular park at the corner of Shrewsbury Avenue and Drs. James Parker Boulevard) in Red Bank Saturday evening. Just look at those faces, huh? And how about...

Oh, and the parking is free all day, even if the meters aren't bagged. Economic conditions, to be sure, are not favorable, and they're markedly worse than when store owners and restaurateurs dreamed up 'Red Bank Residents' Appreciation Day' earlier...

Tad Emptage and MelissaMarie Wilhelm dazzled students with a sampling of flips, spins and slides from their aerial show Monday. The kids also got into the act. A pair of performers from a show called Circurious rolled into the gym...

Mary Randolph Carter is a collector who loves old objects. But not just aged items; things that wear their age proudly, like a door with paint flaking off its surfaces. It's an aesthetic born of biography: Carter grew up on...

Thousands of Red Bankers and visitors packed Broad Street on Friday night for the annual night-after-Thanksgiving gleefest that kicks off the holiday season hereabouts. Bagpipers led a parade into town from the train station. Holiday Express laid down its R&B-flavored...

A volunteer serves salad at Lunch Break yesterday. Norma Todd's Lunch Break, the 25-year-old Red Bank soup kitchen, was transformed into a fine-dining hall yesterday, providing free Thanksgiving meals on linen tablecloths to more than 200 area residents in two...

The above image is the work of a two of Red Bank's more creative couples: Mike Harper and Megan Prenderville, who own the Frame to Please framing shop on Waverly Place; and Liz and Bob McKay of McKay Imaging, a...

Mrs. Claus spreads some cheer, and gets the once-over, at last year's lighting event. (Click to enlarge) As it has for the past 15 years, Red Bank kicks off the holiday season in grand style Friday with a full slate...

All evidence of this year's race was gone from Broad Street by 10:35a. It's a rite of winter. The organizers of the George Sheehan Classic ask the Red Bank Council to green-light its annual five-mile race and related activities downtown....

Members of the DeFazio family — Luba, Val and their daughter, Lara — watch as a crane lifts the 28-year-old Colorado blue spruce from their front yard on Tower Hill Avenue in Red Bank yesterday. (Click pix to enlarge) The...

Crossing guard and eternal kid Carl Colmorgen wears a roasted-turkey hat at his post at the corner of Broad Street and Harding Road in Red Bank yesterday. (Click to enlarge) A roasted poultry hat might be just the thing to...

"Stairs and Shadows," above, by Warner White of Fair Haven, might have made a good 'Where Have I Seen This?' (See below for location.) At right, a shot by an unknown photographer; the young woman is believed to be June...

Going mobile, data-wise. Here are highlights from Monday night's bimonthly meeting of the Red Bank Council: • Mayor Pasquale Menna announced a settlement between the borough and the Fair Share Housing Center of Cherry Hill over how many affordable housing...

Forty-four days to go until Christmas and the decorations are already up at Riverside Gardens Park in Red Bank. Email this story

There was a lot of neck-craning as several hundred visitors took tours of the newly resplendent Count Basie Theatre Wednesday night. A security guard recalled bits of dried plaster sprinkling his hair during a concert by the rock band Kansas....

The aisle stanchion on row U, left; a view of the hall from the balcony, right. (Photos by Jim Willis) After four months in dry dock, it's back to the high seas of entertainment for the Count Basie Theatre Thursday...

The Springsteens go goo-goo over an infant outside the Count Basie Theatre in May. The wonder of it is that they kept it up as long as they did. The Star-Ledger reports this afternoon that Bruce Springsteen and his wife,...