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Monthly Archives: August 2006

Here's the latest from NJ Transit, moved at 4:51p: NJ TRANSIT has resumed service between New York and Newark following earlier police activity... Passengers may expect residual delays, and potentially some train cancellations for approximately 30 minutes as we work...
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August 15th, 2006 @ 4pm
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New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber, who had 12 speeding tickets, four bench warrants issued for her arrest and three license suspensions even before her questionable intervention in a Bergen County traffic stop involving her boyfriend in May, has been...
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August 15th, 2006 @ 4pm
NJ Transit is reporting that service has been suspended between New York and Secaucus due to police activity. Here's the text of the alert, issued at 4:13p: Due to police activity east of Secaucus Junction Station, NJ TRANSIT rail service...
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August 15th, 2006 @ 4pm
A profusion of decals pasted to signs and lampposts on Monmouth Street prompted attorney William Meyer to ask the Borough Council last night if businesses that issue them might be held liable for the cost of removal. No, says councilman...
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August 15th, 2006 @ 8am
Today's Asbury Park Press samples some of the familiar complaints about parking in downtown Red Bank, an issue in which the challenge of finding a space near one's destination or staying one coin ahead of the meter reader counts as...
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August 14th, 2006 @ 11am
A Little Silver attorney in a Manhattan-based personal injury practice has pleaded guilty with his sole partner to stealing $275,000 from clients. According to a report in Thursday's New York Times, Michael Mann, 40, of Little Silver, pleaded guilty with...
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August 12th, 2006 @ 2pm
Spykes, the naughtywear shop on Shrewsbury Avenue, is going dark today. Patent-leather dark. Owner Mary Jennings is temporarily putting the business in storage while she plans a move around the corner, to the former Gasper Sign shop on Bridge Avenue,...
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August 11th, 2006 @ 9pm
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August 11th, 2006 @ 9pm
They're not likely to exit their mesh pavilion with quite the same noisy urgency as a flock of doves loosed at the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. In fact, they may have to be coaxed off the nectary flowers they've...
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August 11th, 2006 @ 9am
Here's the latest on the Sara Swanson flip story we told you about in June: the Madison Avenue house Swanson's been rehabbing for over a year is finally on the market. The four-bedroom, twoTHREE-bath house is listed at $699,000. Will...
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August 11th, 2006 @ 9am
The Monmouth County Freeholders voted last night to put a nonbinding public question on the Nov. 7 ballot. At issue is a proposed countywide tax of 1.5 cents per $100 of assessed property value to be used to fund the...
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August 11th, 2006 @ 9am
The three owners of the Red Bank house shown here have pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with an alleged plot to defraud the government through a kickback scheme at Fort Monmouth. A story in today's Asbury Park Press...
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August 10th, 2006 @ 2pm
Eight years ago, when the Red Bank Farmers' Market opened in the Galleria parking lot, it had only two vendors. Today, there are 30, and every week more merchants ask to be let in, some hoping to hawk goods that...
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August 10th, 2006 @ 12am
Last week's image shows a coat-of-arms painted on the side of a building at 90 West River Road in Rumson. The property is owned by the Tedesco family, and the building, a turn-of-the-century (19th to 20th, that is) structure, is...
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August 10th, 2006 @ 12am
Seventy-nine percent of New Jerseyans have "absolutely no interest" in reading ex-Guv. Jim McGreevey's upcoming book about his struggles with homosexuality and his 2004 political flame-out, according to the Monmouth University Polling Institute. Five percent expressed "a lot' of interest,...
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August 9th, 2006 @ 1pm
Today's Star-Ledger has a comprehensive look at the latest crime stats in New Jersey. Users can access data town-by-town. The trend is generally positive, except for a disturbing uptick in urban homicides. From the story in the Ledger: There were...
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August 9th, 2006 @ 1pm
Larry Higgs of the Asbury Park Press has an item today about the arrests of two young women who dove off the Oceanic Bridge Sunday afternoon and wound up getting arrested by Rumson police, one for assaulting an officer, the...
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August 9th, 2006 @ 10am
A now-former city worker in Asbury Park was charged with drunken driving following an accident on Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright Saturday night. Ruben Trejo Jr. of Hazlet was driving a city-owned SUV at the time of the accident, which...
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August 9th, 2006 @ 9am
Coming off a 13-hour marathon that had him signing geek memorabilia almost until dawn at his Broad Street comic book store, filmmaker Kevin Smith entertained 2,000 fans in Marine Park last night with a mixture of endless approachability and profanity....
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August 9th, 2006 @ 12am
In a state where community college tuitions are among the nation's highest, Brookdale Community College in Lincroft is at the top of the heap, according to a story in today's Star-Ledger. Brookdale will charge $98 a credit starting next month....
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August 8th, 2006 @ 2pm
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 ...