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Monthly Archives: February 2007

At redbankgreen, we correct our mistakes and issue clarifications where warranted. Through an attorney, Aldo Gallelli, president of A.G. Electrical Contractors Inc., has pointed out an error in our January 9 article headlined "Pickets negotiate a fence." The article, about...
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February 7th, 2007 @ 7pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Today's Asbury Park Press reports that the home of the North Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Club is close to winning state designation as an historic structure. The building is in Red Bank on the Navesink River (known as the...
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February 7th, 2007 @ 11am
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February 7th, 2007 @ 10am
Today's Asbury Park Press has a breathtaking recap of how Sea Bright firefighters rescued Debra Yuhasz from the Fountains Condominiums fire early Monday morning. The 47-year-old woman was lying unconscious on the balcony of her second-floor unit when Capt. Joseph...
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February 7th, 2007 @ 6am
Updating the item below... SeaStreak has now cancelled ALL boats to and from Highlands. From the carrier's latest email blast: Due to ice conditions SeaStreak will be making the following changes today's schedule: All service to and from Highlands will...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 1pm
... Seastreak starts c-c-c-cancelling ferry runs because of ice. Which is what they're doing t.-t-t-today. The following departures are cancelled, according to an email sent out at midmorning to subscribers: 11:45a from E. 34th Street & 12:00p from Pier 11...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 12pm
The Asbury Park Press is backing Councilman John Curley's push for a reduction in overtime parking fines in Red Bank from $38 to $25, a move some of the Democratic majority says will blow a $188,000 hole in the borough...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 7am
The badly burned victim of yesterday's spectacular Sea Bright fire was identified as 47-year-old Debra Yuhasz. Today's Press reports that she's in critical but stable condition at the St. Barnabas Burn Center in Livingston. At least 15 units at the...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 7am
Having "hit kind of a wall" in 2006, Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises is being cautious about 2007, a company executive says in an interview in today's Star-Ledger. J. Larry Sorsby, HOV's chief financial officer, tells the Ledger's Judy DeHaven that...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 7am
Fair Haven's new borough administrator, hired last night by the Borough Council, is a 28-year-old woman with three years experience in municipal administration, today's Asbury Park Press reports. Mary Howell replaces Julie Horner-Kiezer, who left last month to become borough...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 7am
The Press is reporting the fire at the Fountains Condominiums complex is largely under control and that an unidentified woman who was badly burned was airlifted by helicopter to the St. Barnabas Burn Center in Livingston. The fire was reported...
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February 5th, 2007 @ 1pm
The Asbury Park Press reports that a fire at the Fountains Condominium Complex on 1340 Ocean Avenue continues to burn. From an update posted at 9:39a: SEA BRIGHT — A fire at 1340 Ocean Ave., at the Fountains Condominium Complex,...
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February 5th, 2007 @ 10am
Tinton Falls officials are considering an ordinance that would require hotels and motels to make photo IDs mandatory for guest check-in — something, presumably, that most such establishments already require of at least one guest per room. But it would...
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February 4th, 2007 @ 12pm
Some art requires solitude and study and the quiet wait for inspiration. But when a visitor asks Medy Quiroz about how she works, she drags a clattering easel into the middle of her kitchen floor, puts up a large half-finished...
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February 2nd, 2007 @ 7am
The Asbury Park Press has published a cookbook produced by its staff that features "signature recipes" of entrees made by chefs at 40 Monmouth and Ocean county restaurants. Three Red Bank restaurants are featured in the book, titled "Shore Gourmet."...
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February 2nd, 2007 @ 12am
Confession time: it hurts. It's probably our own fault, because it usually is when this happens. But still, it hurts. For two weeks in a row, the 'Where' in-box has sat idle and nearly empty. Not a single entry, not...
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February 1st, 2007 @ 8am
In the ever-chipper language of public relations, this year's "Shopper Bowl Shuffle," a downtown sales push in conjunction with the Super Bowl, is "bigger and better," says a press release from RiverCenter. The "better" remains open to interpretation, but in...
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February 1st, 2007 @ 2am
Partyline
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
LONG LIVE LOCAL NEWS!
"Long Live Local News" flags from redbankgreen's 20th anniversary celebration in Marine Park Tuesday prove to be the perfect compliment to s ...
MUMS AND WITCHES
17 Prospect Ave (Photo by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
KAYAKERS CLEAR RIVER JUNK
Partyline photo: "The Navesink Nymphs" clear floating tires from the river.
PAINT IT PURPLE?
Caption: ‘Should it be done purple?’ Perfect day. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
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MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner photographs praying mantis at church.
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.