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Monthly Archives: July 2007

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July 12th, 2007 @ 10pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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The Associated Press is reporting that an oil tanker has run aground off Sandy Hook, but so far no sign of leakage has been seen. The Star-Ledger has an item on this. The vessel is said to be carrying more...
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July 12th, 2007 @ 12pm
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July 12th, 2007 @ 7am
The seemingly unstoppable Colmorgen kids — siblings Bob, Carl and Kathy Lou — triple-teamed the latest 'Where.' This is one avid trio. Now we hear that even young Mother Colmorgen has caught 'Where' fever from her children, none of whom...
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July 12th, 2007 @ 7am
Virginia Bauer, who rallied Congresss to enact tax breaks for families of Sept. 11, 2001 victims after her husband died in the attack, is leaving her post as state Commerce secretary to take a job with the real estate firm...
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July 12th, 2007 @ 7am
Two months after it shot down a request by some business owners to preserve brick sidewalks in the downtown district, Fair Haven's Borough Council is now determined to replace a stretch of faux-brick pavers in front of nearby Memorial Park...
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July 11th, 2007 @ 12pm
A 21-year-old Howell woman was sexually assaulted in the municipal parking lot between Wallace and Mechanic streets early Sunday morning, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The attack occurred shortly before 1:30a as the woman and a friend were approaching...
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July 11th, 2007 @ 6am
A Tinton Falls man is in the county lockup following an incident in which he was caught carrying black trash bags full of loot from an unoccupied West Westside Avenue house last Friday night, the Asbury Park Press reports. Sixty-one-year-old...
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July 10th, 2007 @ 4pm
Having adopted a measure to cut back on nightlife noise from restaurants and bars in the business district, the Red Bank Council last night turned its attention to a quality-of-lifer in residential areas: late-night car honking. The problem, given the...
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July 10th, 2007 @ 6am
Middletown schools chief David L. Witmer should be docked six months pay instead of being fired for padding his expenses and misleading the school board, an administrative law judge ruled yesterday in a recommendation to the state Education Commissioner. According...
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July 10th, 2007 @ 6am
Joe Piscopo OK, let's acknowledge right up front that the dye job's a little creepy, while the whole "I'm from Joisey" schtick we associate him with could use some Botox, or cyanide, even. But a quarter-century after his moment in...
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July 9th, 2007 @ 5pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI One recent morning at the tennis courts in Marine Park, the air was crisp, the clouds distant, and the sun's rays subdued. In short, the kind of morning tennis players dream about, in a setting that's...
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July 9th, 2007 @ 11am
More than 50 kids participated in a three-on-three basketball tournament held this morning at Count Basie Courts. Organizers from the Pilgrim Baptist Church and other groups say they plan to make the event an annual one. Click on the pix...
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July 7th, 2007 @ 1pm
Tom Labetti and Eileen (nee Weller) Labetti of Elm Place got married recently at St. James Church on Broad Street. The red-haired bride beamed magnificently, the wedding party looked youthful and happy, and the newlyweds headed off for their reception...
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July 6th, 2007 @ 5pm
More pix from KaBoom 2007. See below (or click here) for more, if you missed them. Email this item
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July 5th, 2007 @ 3pm
Last week's 'Where' turned out to be a twin, or maybe a triplet. A number of readers were quite certain that the outdoor bays full of decorative gravel and mulch shown in the photo were at Ryser's Landscape Supply on...
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July 5th, 2007 @ 12pm
Today's Asbury Park Press business section has a profile of Ellen D'Amore, proprietor of Soapmarket on Monmouth Street. In the article, D'Amore recounts how, after working 20 years as a textile designer in the garment industry, she longed to create...
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July 5th, 2007 @ 12pm
Anybody who's ever played hoops knows how much fun a game of three-on-three can be. There are just enough players to make the game strategically challenging, but not so many that anybody gets left out of the action. This weekend,...
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July 5th, 2007 @ 11am
The already bizarre border war between two prominent Rumson families took another unusual turn earlier this week when the judge in the case ruled that "members of the public" will benefit if Citigroup Vice Chairman Pete Dawkins and his wife,...
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July 5th, 2007 @ 7am
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July 4th, 2007 @ 12pm
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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 ...