Author: Claire Reed, Managing Editor

  • Weber returns to lead New Egypt softball team

    Weber returns to lead New Egypt softball team

    By Wayne Witkowski Senior pitcher Faith Weber returned to the New Egypt High School softball lineup after reconstructive surgery on her left, non-throwing hand, just in time for a big stretch of Burlington County Scholastic League Freedom Division games. “My hand feels pretty good now, about 90 percent back [to health],” said Weber, who suffered…

  • Econo-Line Movers celebrates service to community

    Econo-Line Movers celebrates service to community

    For close to 35 years, Monmouth and Ocean County-based Econo-Line Movers has successfully moved families and businesses tens of thousands of times all along the east coast. The staff at Econo-Line has grown, learned and improved over the past three decades, mastering the art of moving and understanding the important aspects of the move that…

  • Rumson hires first full-time, in-house engineer

    Rumson hires first full-time, in-house engineer

    By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer RUMSON — The Borough Council has approved the appointment of Rumson’s first full-time, in-house Borough Engineer, David Marks. The appointment of Marks, whose professional background includes experience in roadway and park design, construction on large- and small-scale projects and management and financial oversight of construction projects, was approved at…

  • Sea Bright debates paid parking plan

    Sea Bright debates paid parking plan

    By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT — With the summer season quickly approaching, the Borough Council continues an ongoing debate over charging for parking in the municipal lot. During the April 14 Workshop meeting, the council discussed the parameters around the plan to charge for parking, with Councilman Charles Rooney III saying the borough…

  • Investors Bank Foundation receives grant

    Investors Bank Foundation receives grant

    Investors Bank Foundation recently awarded a two-year grant in the amount of $15,000 to the Mental Health Association of Monmouth County (MHA) in support of its Red Bank Resource Network (RBRN) and Sandy Wellness Program. This funding will help MHA continue to provide local residents and Hurricane Sandy impacted families and individuals with free mental…

  • Grant funds new storm-planning software for Rumson

    Grant funds new storm-planning software for Rumson

    By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer RUMSON — A grant from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs has funded the development of software that is helping borough officials pinpoint neighborhoods at risk of flooding and other damage days before storm events strike. The Borough of Rumson is the first Post-Sandy Planning Assistance Grant recipient…

  • RBR technology students win top honors at state FBLA competitions

    RBR technology students win top honors at state FBLA competitions

    Red Bank Regional (RBR) Academy of Information Technology Students were dominant in the State Future Business Leader Completions held on Feb. 18 in at the Harrah’s Conference Center in Atlantic City. Pictured are the RBR FBLA students who placed at the New Jersey States Conference: they are (left to right, front row): Devin Long, Union…

  • Medical experts testify about bones found of boy who died in 1991

    Medical experts testify about bones found of boy who died in 1991

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — The cause of how five-year-old Timothy “Timmy” Wiltsey died was undetermined; however, the manner in how he died was opined to be a homicide, according to Dr. Geetha Natarajan, a retired chief medical examiner in Middlesex County. “You do not find a child dying of natural causes in…

  • Defense counsel questions observances of missing five-year-old boy

    Defense counsel questions observances of missing five-year-old boy

      By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — A carnival worker told police in 1991 that he was certain he put five-year-old Timothy “Timmy” Wiltsey on the two- to three-minute ride he was operating at a carnival at Kennedy Park in Sayreville. James O’Connell was one of the witnesses whom Gerald Krovatin put on…