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Monthly Archives: July 2006

Well into today's Asbury Park Press story about an audit of Red Bank's books is a little bombshell: a likely explanation for former chief financial officer Terence Whalen's June 12 resignation. It turns out that the books were a mess....
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July 26th, 2006 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Filmmaker Kevin Smith's breakthrough 1994 film 'Clerks' will be screened at Marine Park on Aug. 8, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The event is free and open to the public. Smith, a borough native who owns Jay and Silent...
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July 26th, 2006 @ 8am
New Jersey Transit posted this alert three minutes ago: Due to Portal Bridge problems, service is temporarily suspended in and out of PSNY. NEC and NJC service in/out of Newark Penn is subject to 60 minute delays. Cross honoring with...
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July 25th, 2006 @ 4pm
It seems they do things a little differently in Red Bank, Tenn., a suburb of Chattanooga. For instance, they elect their judges. For another, the local newspaper is apparently glad to yield a portion of its opinion page to a...
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July 24th, 2006 @ 10am
You may recall the rusting ladder in the tree that redbankgreen featured a few weeks back in our Where Have I Seen This? contest. (Answer, in case you missed it: in the yard of a house at 236 Broad Street,...
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July 24th, 2006 @ 9am
Brookdale Public Radio (90.5 FM) in Lincroft is reporting power outages in Belford, Cliffwood Beach, North Middletown and Port Monmouth. Last week, some Bayshore residents were without power for 18 hours. E-mail this story
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July 24th, 2006 @ 8am
Today's Ledger has a piece about private islands along (or near) the Shore, including Rumson's Barley Point Island, on the Navesink. That's an aerial view above, courtesy of the Monmouth County Tax Board, with houses outlined in green. Barley Point...
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July 23rd, 2006 @ 12pm
Verizon Wireless put up a crane in the parking lot of Fair Haven's Church of the Nativity this morning to give residents an idea of what a 133-foot-tall cellphone tower would look like if sited on the church property, as...
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July 22nd, 2006 @ 1pm
Adding an odd twist to a long-running controversy, a 133-foot-tall crane is to be raised in the parking lot of the Church of the Nativity in Fair Haven tomorrow to give residents and passersby some idea of what a cellphone...
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July 21st, 2006 @ 1pm
Today's Star-Ledger has an eight-page pullout guide to Red Bank in its "Ticket" section, and a more extensive version at its website. The section doesn't aim for depth (thus we're reminded, repeatedly, that 20 years ago the town was known...
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July 21st, 2006 @ 1pm
Southbound travelers on the Parkway may one day have a panoramic view of 2,000 new condos on either side of the highway as they descend from the steep new bridge across the Raritan River. Today's Home News Tribune reports that...
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July 21st, 2006 @ 9am
As a way of decompressing from the workweek, an after-dinner dawdle along the streets of Red Bank on a summer evening is a pretty sure thing. And this Saturday night, lollygaggers can add art appreciation to their wanderings by getting...
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July 19th, 2006 @ 11pm
Admit it: There was a time, maybe not so long ago, when someone would bring up the subject of organic food and you’d start looking around for the nearest exit. Not because you think there's anything wrong with getting pesticides...
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July 19th, 2006 @ 11pm
Dog-walkin' visual artist Wendy Born Hollander was the only reader to correctly identify last week's 'Where,' which showed the number 61 above the word 'office' and a bent arrow. It's a sign painted on a small building on West Street,...
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July 19th, 2006 @ 11pm
It took five-plus hours, and the end result was more shriveled than shirred. But yesterday was hot enough to cook an egg on a dashboard, as redbankgreen's adventurous crew proved in a Saturn station wagon. Coming soon: August bacon.
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July 19th, 2006 @ 11am
Matt O’Ree is 34 years old and teaches guitar in and around Red Bank, giving private lessons in homes and at the Red Bank Music Academy on Monmouth Street. He’s got the look of somebody who needs to be onstage,...
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July 13th, 2006 @ 10pm
Ten quick questions for Gail Mayr of Lena’s Bagels and Deli, 441 Broad Street, Shrewsbury. We understand you’re quite well-traveled on the local bagel circuit. So where have you worked? I started at the Bagel Station on Monmouth Street, where...
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July 13th, 2006 @ 10pm
Psychologists call it the “hedonic treadmill,” the seemingly never-ending pursuit of goals and possessions that we think will make us truly and enduringly happy, if only we could attain them. Having been bombarded all their lives with the messages that...
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July 12th, 2006 @ 11pm
So much for reflexively ascribing virtues to people without first checking our facts. It turns out Dayna Stein of the Dueling Steins hasn’t been sitting out the recent weeks of ‘Where’ simply to give other readers a chance to win,...
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July 12th, 2006 @ 11pm
One town's junk is another town's gold, it seems. Audrey Oldoerp of South Street looks at nearby burgs, with their annual townwide garages sales, and wonders, Hey, why not here, in Red Bank? Townwide sales aren't uncommon. Atlantic Highlands has...
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July 11th, 2006 @ 10pm
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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 ...