  
BACK IN BLACK…AND RED AND WHITE
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Schools across The Green opened up the 2010-11 academic year today. In Red Bank, many of the students not only got acclimated to the start of a new school year, but also a new look.   STRIKING A POLITICAL POSE
Mayor Pasquale Menna, along with councilwomen Kathy Horgan and Sharon Lee, who are up for re-election, posed for the camera in downtown Red Bank Wednesday afternoon.  LOCALS ARRESTED IN SEASTREAK TIX SCHEMEBy DUSTIN RACIOPPI Four men were arrested Wednesday for selling fake boarding tickets for the SeaStreak commuter ferry, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office said. Three of the men are locals, and all were charged with second-degree theft by deception, second-degree conspiracy, fourth-degree forgery and fourth-degree uttering a forged instrument.  HOV BEATS OUTLOOK — IN WRONG DIRECTION
Homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises slashed its net loss in its latest fiscal quarter, but still produced more red ink than Wall Street analysts were expecting, according to Bloomberg. The Red Bank-based company racked up $72.9 million in losses in the period that ended July 31, largely owing to the expiration of a federal tax credit for homebuyers. A year earlier, Hovnanian reported a net loss of $168.9 million.  BEATING THE HEAT AT THE FIREHOUSEBy DUSTIN RACIOPPI It was a steamy Tuesday night in Fair Haven. Thankfully there were rollercoasters and ice cream cones to cool things off a bit, and the locals indulged. redbankgreen strolled through the Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair to grab some shots of the action. The fair continues through the week, and wraps up Saturday night. To enlarge the photo display, start it, then click the embiggen symbol in the lower right corner. To get back to redbankgreen, hit your escape key.  BASIE DOC A ‘CLEAR’ TRIBUTE TO RBC GRAD
By TOM CHESEK Even though it falls this year on an event-packed late summer Saturday, the approach of September 11 can’t help but spur some moments of reflection for anyone who made their home in and around the Red Bank green on that day in 2001. It’s impossible not to flash back to where you were on 9/11 — whether it was the newly opened Riverside Gardens, whose walls and walkways became the area’s unofficial town square for makeshift memorials and candlelit vigils. Or the commuter ferry docks of the Bayshore, where scores of dazed and dust-covered escapees from Ground Zero were hosed down and given a chance to get their bearings. Or particularly hard-hit Middletown, where a walk-through monument garden would sprout up adjacent to the township’s train station. As a First Lieutenant on active duty with the 1st Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment, Mike Scotti remembers quite well where he was as the planes hit the towers — and the fact that, as he explains, he was playing craps in a casino in Darwin, Australia, illustrates both the real element of surprise involved and the speed with which the military response was effected.  ANOTHER POWER TO BE RECKONED WITH
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI This week’s forecast: hot and sunny with a chance of Earl. A very good chance of Earl, actually. Be warned, beachgoers: the entire East Coast is on alert for Hurricane Earl, which is expected to hit our area — at least in tropical form — later this week. The same rip current advisory that was in effect for Hurricane Danielle last weekend is in place for the storm’s successor this Labor Day weekend.  CHESS CLUB BRINGS YOUNG, OLD TO RED BANK
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Anyone out there who knew that Red Bank has a chess school and club raise your hand. Anybody who knew Red Bank has a USCF-rated chess school and club keep your hands up. Anybody who knows what USCF stands for, you need not read any further, because you probably already know that 51 Monmouth Street plays home to Monmouth Chess School and Club, a place where a 40-year-old can match up against a 12-year-old and shake hands after a mind-crunching bout on the board.  OUTAGE CAUSES TRAFFIC, CLOSURES, BEER
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI A malfunction at a Tinton Falls substation is believed to be the cause of yesterday’s countywide power outage, according to the Asbury Park Press. Locally, power started being restored within 75 minutes of the outage, but many homes and businesses also went for hours more in the dark, forcing some closures and snarling traffic on the area’s main roads. 
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Video footage, shot in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars by former Marine lieutenant (and Red Bank Catholic graduate) Mike Scotti, forms the core of SEVERE CLEAR, the documentary feature screening on September 11 at the Count Basie Theatre. It’s a fundraiser for the Reserve Aid organization, as well as a tribute to Scotti’s RBC classmate Beth Quigley, who was killed in the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.
