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Monthly Archives: March 2007

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March 8th, 2007 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Barbara Masterpalo and Rita Jurakovich were out for dinner with their respective significant others not too long ago when Jurakovich noticed Masterpalo's rather striking handbag — a deep leather satchel with a chainlike shoulder strap. "I said, 'That's a beautiful...
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March 8th, 2007 @ 10am
Red Bank Borough's somewhat underutilized official website (we're being diplomatic here) is about to make the great leap into the 21st century. The Asbury Park Press reports that the site will go live with new features tomorrow. Among the first...
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March 8th, 2007 @ 10am
Here's a case that's shaping up as a 21st-century Jarndyce v. Jarndyce. The Asbury Park Press has a story about an appellate court decision issued yesterday in a lawsuit over power outages in July, 1999. At issue is whether lawsuits...
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March 8th, 2007 @ 6am
No one correctly identified the the location of last week's 'Where,' showing a statue of a slicker-wearing fisherman. Which surprised us. We would have thought there were some avid statuary aficionados out there. In fact, we still believe that. Come...
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March 7th, 2007 @ 11pm
A partial reopening of the Red Bank Public Library — initially planned for December and then postponed until this month — probably won't happen at all, library officials say now. The upshot: library users will have to wait until May...
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March 7th, 2007 @ 2pm
New Jersey's citizens have the right to videotape public meetings, the state Supreme Court has ruled in a unanimous opinion written by Rumson resident and Chief Justice James Zazzali. The Star-Ledger has news of the ruling, which came this morning...
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March 7th, 2007 @ 2pm
The Red Bank Board of Education and the Charter School have finally, formally agreed to make nice. They've signed a consent agreement settling a lawsuit filed by the board in 2001, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: In...
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March 7th, 2007 @ 9am
It's only a draft document, one that even councilman and finance committee chairman Michael DuPont said he had not seen beforehand. But a preliminary Red Bank budget unveiled at a first-ever presentation of its kind Monday night calls for a...
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March 7th, 2007 @ 12am
The owner of a Fair Haven furniture store was arrested Monday for failing to deliver on $290,000 worth of online orders from 83 customers across the U.S., according to a report by the Asbury Park Press. It's not the first...
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March 5th, 2007 @ 10pm
Keith Glass is a 56-year-old Red Bank-based pro basketball agent who's got some withering views about the state of the NBA, its players, and even the role played by people who do what he does for a living. He lays...
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March 2nd, 2007 @ 7am
A head-scratcher over why water usage appeared to triple last year at the Red Bank Middle School appears to have been solved, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The problem wasn't leaks or kids suddenly turned ambitious about hygiene. It...
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March 2nd, 2007 @ 6am
Middletown has no standing to challenge, in court, the state's approval of an affordable-housing-obligation swap involving Red Bank and Manalapan, a state Appeals Court has ruled, according to an article posted today on the Asbury Park Press website. The decision...
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March 1st, 2007 @ 11am
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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.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...