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    Red Bank Regional High School’s Laura Bowler (center) tries to thread her way through the Middletown South defense during last week’s summer basketball tournament hosted in Little Silver by Red Bank Regional. Many of the best teams in the Shore participated in the weeklong tournament. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • R.B. public school students to wear uniforms

    Board of Ed. adopts dress code BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer RED BANK — Students attending the borough’s public schools will be sporting new attire come this fall, after the school board’s unanimous July 20 ruling on a mandated dress code. Effective Oct. 21, students at the Red Bank Primary and Red Bank Middle schools…

  • Marie C. (Barlok) Menges Sembler

    Mrs. Sembler, 83, of Union Beach, died Aug. 7, 2010. She was a communicant of St. Catherine’s Catholic Church, Middletown, a member of the Union Beach Fire Company No. 1 Ladies Auxiliary, and a former member of the Holy Family Altar Rosary Society. Mrs. Sembler was predeceased by her first husband, Raymond Menges, in 1983;…

  • Ronald Philip Riddle

    Mr. Riddle, 74, of Little Silver, died July 28, 2010. He worked on Wall Street for 27 years in institutional sales, spending the last 12 years as national head of sales trading at Merrill Lynch and then Prudential Securities. Mr. Riddle was a member of the Famous Grouse Golf and Social Club, the Monmouth Beach…

  • Tenure is no boon to N.J. educational system

    The newest addition to Gov. Chris Christie’s busy political agenda happily calls for limiting the already outrageous salary compensations for school superintendents. They illustrate an arrogance within educational bureaucracies in New Jersey as are the political and union influences for supporting tenure for school teachers. Dramatic changes by Gov. Christie’s educational agendas and budget demands…

  • Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation explains its purpose

    Recent articles and Web postings have been written about the relationship between the town of Red Bank, the Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation (JSJBF) and the festival that takes place during the first weekend of June each year. As many people know, this year JSJBF was instructed by Red Bank officials to relocate the…

  • Building-by-building approach is best for Fort Hancock

    On July 9 we wrote to National Park Service (NPS) Director Jarvis to request a liaison who would work with nonprofit organizations to restore and lease the historic buildings at Fort Hancock. Several nonprofits who currently occupy buildings at Sandy Hook and others that would relocate there have expressed interest in restoring the buildings on…

  • A veteran’s plea: Forget us not

    The process of closing Fort Monmouth has been traumatizingmany veterans for five years. Veterans who risked their lives and earned the benefits of the support systems, which are rapidly eroding now at the fort, are experiencing something akin to death by a thousand cuts. The feeling might be likened to finally realizing that one is…

  • … Also starring Red Bank

    BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer RED BANK — Red Bank is set to receive another starring role in a feature film. Local independent filmmaker Michael Altino chose Red Bank as a primary location for his independent feature “Parker and the Box,” for its appearance and its community. “Red Bank, the scenery and the downtown is…

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