KaBoom Unlikely to Return Again This Summer
Though KaBoom! Fireworks on the Navesink hasn't been canceled, there's been no talk about bringing it back this year.
The prospect of seeing fireworks return to Red Bank this summer is grim. And it’s not necessarily because of what officials are saying, but rather what they’re not saying. At Wednesday's council meeting, after giving the go-ahead to Flavour to host a two-day weekend event at the end of June, just a few days shy of the Fourth of July and Red Bank’s annual July 3rd fireworks show, Mayor Pat Menna said there have been no discussions whatsoever about bringing KaBoom! Fireworks on the Navesink back to the borough. Planning for the show, which attracted crowds of upward of 100,000 people to the borough’s downtown and riverfront prior to its suspension, typically began soon after the last firework exploded in the sky over the Navesink each July …
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Donald L. Carman
1:14 pm on Saturday, April 20, 2013
The folks involved are rumored to have ignored offers for both help and money last year. It is obvious that the business community doesn't want it. Not because it isn't profitable..but for other reasons. The remark "that the see no repeat business from those events" is idiotic. more ›