Red Bank News

The Garden State has grown racially and ethnically in the last decade, and according to the results of a Monmouth University/NJ Press Media Poll, New Jerseyans are showing an increased level of comfort with that diversity.

Source: www.post-gazette.com --- Saturday, February 11, 2012"Comic Book Men" , set inside film director Kevin Smith's New Jersey comics and collectibles store, struggles to find a raison d'etre in its premiere episode.

He brought geekdom to the masses with his films "Clerks" and "Mallrats." Now Kevin Smith turns to TV with AMC's Comic Book Men , a reality show set at Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, the comics shop Smith owns in Red Bank, New Jersey.

The opening concert of the season sets the tone, launching into this interesting period with Duke Ellington's 'Harlem' and Ferdinand Grofe's famous 'Grand Canyon Suite' on a program with George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue'' and variations on 'I Got Rhythm.' / ASSOCIATED PRESS The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra recently unveiled its 2012-13 roster ... (more)

NOTICE OF CONTRACTS AWARDED The Jackson Township Municipal Utilities Authority, in accordance with the Local Public Contracts Law, N.J.S.A. 40A:11-5 , herewith provides Notice that at its Public Meetings of December 15, 2011, and February 2, 2012 Reorganization Meeting Professional Services Contracts were awarded to the following firm: Resolution ... (more)

Red Bank Police Department provides a blotter of recent police activities on a regular basis.

Red Bank, NJ February 10, 2012 - Riverview Medical Center, part of Meridian Neuroscience, today announced it is one of the first hospitals in the state to offer patients deep brain stimulation , a breakthrough procedure for treating essential tremors and Parkinson's disease.

It used to be the only place you'd hear people debating the sexiest Catwoman or questioning if Batman was a suitable adoptive father was at a comic-book store.

The city of Red Bank is one of the most diverse towns that New Jersey has to offer.

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Since it closed its doors for the last time, broken, finally, by the most severe penalty it had faced after years of threats and warnings, losing its liquor license, the site of an Ashes Cigar Club on Broad Street has been a black mark on Red Bank's carefully manicured downtown.

Red Bank entered into a developer's agreement with the builder of a proposed four-story apartment complex aimed for the corner of Monmouth and Oakland Streets called the Courtyards at Monmouth.

George Lystris is sitting at a table in his Bistro at Red Bank restaurant during the afternoon lull when his good friend and fellow chef Anthony Ferrando, owner of the New York Times-reviewed Dish, A Restaurant, wanders over with a cup of coffee and asks what's doing for lunch.

Kevin Smith remembers growing up watching shows like "Dallas" filled with impossibly pretty people who looked nothing like him and his friends.

As expected, the Shrewsbury Board of Education voted to move its school board elections to November, a decision that will also allow the board to keep its school budget off the ballot if it falls within the state's mandated 2 percent increase cap.

Anthony Chisholm reprises his Obie-winning role as Fielding in August Wilson's 'Jitney,' now onstage at Two River Theater in Red Bank.

The cold-weather Super Bowl in northern New Jersey in 2014 may not be all that cold based on recent... When: 8 p.m. Thursday Where: Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth St., Red Bank Tickets: $39, $49, $79, $129 Information: 732-842-9000; www.countbasietheatre.org/ Also: When: June 15, 16; Nov.

The group looking to bring Char steakhouse to Red Bank is hoping the borough's Planning Board sees fit to approve its site plan and issue a number of variances for necessary changes currently standing in its way.

During a workshop session of the regular Little Silver mayor and council meeting at borough hall last week, Police Officer Frank Salerno offered to take on the role of the town's Office of Emergency Management Coordinator, a position recently vacated by the retirement of former police chief Shannon Giblin .

Red Bank Police Department provides a blotter of recent police activities on a regular basis.