Monthly Archives: February 2009

Girls in the limited-enrollment program for three- and four-year-olds holding hands as they run outside the Red Bank Middle School this week. Below, kids lined up for the start of playtime. (Click to enlarge) By JUDY DeHAVEN March 12 is...

By JUDY DeHAVEN Specials are common at the Milagro Spa, but most feature an exotic indulgence: 'aromatic sugar scrubs,' 'stonecrop body wraps' and 'facial tea tree oil waxings,' to name a few. An event scheduled for Monday, March 2, is...

It wasn't hard to find visitors pumping coins into meters in Red Bank's White Street lot at lunchtime last Saturday. Above, Nicole Collman of Manalapan, left, with Rebecca Route of Jamesburg. With some fanfare, Mayor Pasquale Menna announced at last...

Rev. D. Crist Northington, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, speaks at shooting victim Sidney Wakefield's funeral Thursday. A funeral service for 26-year-old Sidney Wakefield, one of two men shot to death on Red Bank's West Side earlier this month,...

Somehow, for the entirety of its 96-year existence, Fair Haven — a town with more than its share of Wall Street workers among its 6,000 or so residents — has managed to get by without having to go to the...

Borough Attorney Ken Pringle, left, and partner Tom Hall at a Red Bank council meeting in July, 2007. Because of questions raised by government watchdog Steve Fitzpatrick, the Red Bank Council has taken Pringle, Quinn & Anzana, its contracted law...

Remember when you could only see a live show by Celine Dion by traveling to Vegas? Well, Red Bank has its very own "destination" act, the kind in which the fans do the touring and performers stay put. We're talking...

Last week's Where framed an odd mix of architectural surfaces. Among the responses: "rite aid" "The old K HOV building on Hwy 35 shot from Nicholas?" "I am totally guessing, but I think it might be the Viet Nam Vets...

Roofers atop a house on Branch Avenue in Red Bank take it down to the wood yesterday under clear, crisp skies. Looks like we'll get just a hint of spring today. Here's the National Weather Service forecast for our area:...

Location: Max Bernstein's home in Fair Haven. Occasion: Bernstein's annual Fat Tuesday party, a come-what-may affair that this year featured a live band in the living room; a guest appearance by Elvis; tarot readings; an aerialist's performance in the chilly...

The shelves of Sunny Sharma's business, once stocked with hard liquor, now carry shaving cream and snacks. Milk and eggs have replaced beer as the products featured on the door. Sunny Sharma says he can't catch a break. It's not...

So what's a Momix Remix? It's a look back at more than 25 years worth of invention from the atelier of celebrated choreographer Moses Pendleton and his Momix Dance Theater company. A Momix performance finds human bodies exploring new and...

Entries from the Red Bank Police Department blotter for the week of February 13 to February 20, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Shoplifting occurring on 2-13-09 at Broad St. Victim reported unknown subject shoplifted two packages of a dietary...

Borough police would continue to have at least two officers on patrol, even when the police station is unstaffed, officials said. By SUE MORGAN There would be workshifts during which there are no live bodies inside the Fair Haven Police...

A Keansburg man has been charged with attempted robbery for his alleged attempt to rob a Red Bank liquor store at knifepoint in 2007. Capt. Steve McCarthy tells redbankgreen that borough police had been on the lookout for Nicholas Cournoyer,...

The view north along Bridge Avenue at Chestnut Street. Soon, motorists on Bridge will have to come to a full stop, as those on Chestnut already do. A couple of updates on traffic matters here in hububby Red Bank: Capt....

Community center proponents Peter Noble, president of the Red Bank Board of Ed, and David Prown after Monday's borough council session, which ran for almost three hours, as suggested by the clock in the background. After nearly three months of...

It's one of the more popular concepts to emerge from the promotion-concocting labs of Red Bank RiverCenter: the spring Dine Downtown promotion, going on every Tuesday and Wednesday evening in March at a select group of eateries around town. A...

Chubby's owner Mike Gilson pleaded his case, but got little sympathy from the governing body, including Council President Art Murphy, below. First, there was the October 2007 donnybrook outside Chubby's Waterside Café that took cops from several towns to quell...

Good one from the annals of amusing crime stories courtesy of the Asbury Park Press: SHREWSBURY — A Red Bank man walked into a department store, asked a cashier for a pen, then used it to write a holdup note,...