Author: Greater Media

  • Red Bank police reach out to Hispanic residents

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer Issues related to documentation and overcrowding were discussed as the Red Bank Police Department held its first meeting to bridge the divide between police and the borough’s Spanish-speaking residents. “It was a great meeting,” said the Rev. Alberto Tamayo, pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Church, Bridge Avenue. “It was…

  • New safe house will shelter victims of domestic abuse

    By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer A rendering of a new safe house planned by 180 Turning Lives Around that will shelter victims of domestic and sexual abuse. Over the past five years, 180 Turning Lives Around has provided safe shelter for more than 400 adult victims of domestic and sexual abuse and 500 children,…

  • TEDxNavesink takes place April 11 at Monmouth University

    The upcoming TEDxNavesink conference will bring the mission of TED Talks to Monmouth County for an all-day live event for the third annual year. With the purpose of sharing “ideas worth spreading,” leading thinkers — a Pulitzer Prize winner, physicists, computer scientists, researchers and artists — will explore how today’s “accelerators” and change agents are…

  • Snow day

    Michael Montague takes a ride down the sledding hill at Wolf Hill Recreation Area in Oceanport on March 6. PHOTOS BY MATT DENTON Children of all ages make the trek up the sledding hill.

  • Historic Red Bank theater embraces film community

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer “Still Alice” is one of the Academy Award-nominated films screened at the Count Basie Theatre as part of its outreach to the local film community. JEREMY GROSSMAN/STAFF RED BANK — A trip to the movies could cost an arm and a leg, but at the Count Basie Theatre, a $5…

  • Casino Night to fund program for youths

    LITTLE SILVER — The Red Bank Regional (RBR) SOURCE Foundation will hold its fifth annual Casino Night 7-11 p.m. March 21 at the Salt Creek Grille restaurant, 4 Bingham Ave., Rumson. Proceeds will benefit The SOURCE, RBR’s school-based youth services program. The SOURCE offers free services to students and their families, such as individual, group…

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    STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR A lone walker passes by the Casino in Asbury Park during a recent snowstorm.

  • Build bridges, extend fellowship

    As individuals and members of the Board of the Monmouth Center for World Religions and Ethical Thought (www.interfaith-MCWRET.org), we deplore the killing of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, N.C. — Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha. We grieve for their family and friends. We would like to state publicly our…

  • Grant will help Rumson convert Piping Rock park to synthetic turf

    By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer RUMSON — The borough has been awarded a $250,000 Municipal Open Space Grant from Monmouth County for improvements that will be coming to Piping Rock Memorial Park on East River Road. Sarah Orsay, director of parks and recreation, said the funds would go toward the installation of a synthetic…