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Monthly Archives: July 2006

Say what you will about the New York Times, but its obit writers know how to take the sting out of death. Yesterday's edition carried the delicious obituary of Rupert Pole, 87, "one of the two simultaneous — and simultaneously...
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July 31st, 2006 @ 2pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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It's customarily the biggest month of the year for real estate sales, but this June was one was one to forget, according to the latest edition of The Otteau Report, which analyzes sales trends. Contract sales of Monmouth County residential...
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July 31st, 2006 @ 10am
We told you a few days back about the letter to the editor that the mother of Johnny Houston, a candidate for city judge in Red Bank, Tenn., wrote to the editor of the local newspaper extolling her boy's many...
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July 30th, 2006 @ 11am
"Jersey really in a jam," says a headline in today's Home News Tribune out of East Brunswick. "Jersey is in a jam as drivers beat retreat from the heat," says another, in today's Newark Star-Ledger. The Home News Tribune article,...
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July 30th, 2006 @ 10am
The 52nd annual Red Bank sidewalk sale, which began yesterday, continues today and runs through tomorrow. Stay hydrated, shoppers. Temperatures will soar into the mid-90s. The National Weather Service has an excessive heat warning in effect from 2p today until...
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July 29th, 2006 @ 7am
Steve Forbert played in Riverside Gardens Park last night as part of the Songwriters in the Park series. Yeah, he did "Goin' Down to Laurel," the breakout tune from his debut 1978 album 'Alive on Arrival,' and it sounded like......
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July 29th, 2006 @ 6am
The National Weather Service has issued a severe weather alert for much of southern and central New Jersey, including southwestern Monmouth County. A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for the region until 9p.
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July 28th, 2006 @ 3pm
Roofer Joe Ruffini, who's building an environment-friendly 'green' roof atop his house on Maple Avenue, reports that he now has all the zoning approvals in hand to complete the job. He writes: I should be back to work on the...
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July 28th, 2006 @ 1pm
Rumsonite/Colts Neckian Bruce Springsteen accompanied his 14-year-old daughter, Jessica, to a horse-jumping competition in Saugerties, N.Y., recently. She did well. Even won $780. Dad had dinner three nights in a row at the same restaurant in nearby Kingston, at least...
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July 28th, 2006 @ 11am
Kudos to Michele Sahn of the Asbury Park Press for giving some attention today to the kind of story that often stays below the radar of dailies of that size. In the process, she shines some light on the difficulty...
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July 28th, 2006 @ 9am
Investigators pulled the body of a woman from the Navesink River in Rumson on Wednesday. An autopsy found no sign of trauma, and the cause of death is under investigation. The Asbury Park Press says a State Police forensic anthropologist...
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July 28th, 2006 @ 8am
Fourteen stations along NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line have been targeted for safety improvements to pedestrian track crossings following an accident in Belmar earlier this month, according to the Asbury Park Press. The initial report by the Press did...
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July 27th, 2006 @ 10pm
What's next? Dissolve-on-the-tongue cabernet sauvignon strips? Celebrity chef David Burke, owner of The David Burke Fromagerie in Rumson and part owner of davidburke & donatella in New York, is hawking a line of 'flavor sprays.' The line is known as...
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July 27th, 2006 @ 9am
Pundits are calling it this generation's version of the building of the George Washington Bridge, and it moves closer to reality today. The Port Authority is expected today to authorize the first $1 billion of spending to develop and build...
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July 27th, 2006 @ 9am
There's a common thread of second chances in the story of Woodfish, a Red Bank-based band scheduled to play the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville Saturday night. Steve Kalorin, the bassist and elder statesman of the group at 38, had tasted...
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July 27th, 2006 @ 12am
Maria Ursino of Little Silver was the first to correctly identify the location of last week's conjoined metal shed and brick building as the Anderson Moving and Storage Warehouse at the corner of Bridge and Monmouth Streets. Maria grew up...
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July 27th, 2006 @ 12am
We got a late start on last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, so this is a few days old. But hey, it's the doldrums, right? Rob Walker, who writes the 'Consumed' column, has a piece titled 'Silent Green,' which makes...
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July 26th, 2006 @ 10am
Sam Ali of the Star-Ledger business section checks in today on the slowdown in real estate sales at the Shore in recent months. Just a year ago, homes in Jersey Shore communities spanning 45 miles from Sandy Hook Bay in...
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July 26th, 2006 @ 10am
New Jersey drivers above a certain age will no doubt remember that special form of torture known as the traffic circle. These were circular roadway alignments at major intersections meant to allow for continuous flows of traffic without the use...
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July 26th, 2006 @ 10am
Today's Star-Ledger says the reason for last night's rail snarls between New York and Newark was that "the trouble-prone" Portal Bridge got stuck in the open position. The 96-year-old bridge between Secaucus and Kearney swivels to allow boat traffic through....
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July 26th, 2006 @ 9am
Partyline
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...