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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Red Bank Police are investigating four suspected shootings over little more than three weeks that were not previously disclosed to the public, Capt. Steven McCarthy confirmed to redbankgreen this afternoon. No one was injured in any of the four incidents...
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August 31st, 2007 @ 4pm
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Out front, the open-air courtyard. By LINDSAY SAKRAIDA Early one morning a while back, Dublin House co-owner Sean Dunne walked into the "eerie" empty bar to check on construction work underway on the second floor. But when he went to...
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August 31st, 2007 @ 8am
A concept plan shows a boardwalk running from the former Peninsula House site down to Donovan's Reef. By LINDA G. RASTELLI The Sea Bright borough council hopes to make the town a magnet on the Jersey shore "second to none,"...
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August 31st, 2007 @ 8am
Police have identified the Red Bank man who died yesterday while cleaning a residential pool in Rumson as Luis Javier Rojas, of Lexington Avenue, according to the Asbury Park Press. He was 25 years old. From the story: Rojas, who...
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August 30th, 2007 @ 9pm
A westbound car, at left, heads into oncoming traffic in the new roundabout outside Brookdale Community College this morning. By LINDA G. RASTELLI Just moments after Monmouth County and Middletown officials packed up their press conference to tout a "safer"...
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August 30th, 2007 @ 3pm
Twelfth-district state Assemblywoman and Red Bank resident Jennifer Beck has asked Attorney General Anne Milgram to speed up the scheduled hearing on whether the borough can shut down Best Liquors over a series of sales infractions. "March of 2008 is...
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August 30th, 2007 @ 2pm
The late auto-parts sculptor Jim Gary had his fans. Several respondents to last week's 'Where' not only knew the location of the distinctive piece shown — it's in front of a house on Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright, just south...
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August 30th, 2007 @ 11am
What to do about the cramped Borough Hall is among tonight's topics in Sea Bright. By LINDA G. RASTELLI If you want to read Sea Bright's Smart Growth report, a copy of the document will set you back $40 at...
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August 30th, 2007 @ 7am
A 25-year-old employee of a Red Bank pool cleaning service was found dead in a Rumson pool this morning when co-workers returned to pick him up after dropping him off earlier, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. The victim, not...
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August 29th, 2007 @ 3pm
That's a picture of the full lunar eclipse — full in some parts of the world, that is, but not this part — taken early Tuesday morning from an undisclosed bedroom in Red Bank. But you knew it was Red...
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August 29th, 2007 @ 11am
A Jersey City policeman who lives in Middletown and has a record spotted with drunk-driving allegations was indicted in Hudson County yesterday in the DWI death of a two-year-old boy in January. The indictment charges Officer Kevin Freibott with aggravated...
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August 29th, 2007 @ 10am
A late-afternoon view of the former incinerator ash dump at the western end of Sunset Avenue. They came, they saw, they conjured. On a half-hour tour of the former municipal ash dump last night, members of the Red Bank Environmental...
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August 29th, 2007 @ 8am
Musician, sports commentator, restaurateur and marathon man Tim McLoone is featured in today's New York Times, which calls him "the voice of New Jersey." Now, before any Sinatra, Springsteen and Jon Bovi fans blow an artery, it's not meant to...
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August 28th, 2007 @ 2pm
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August 28th, 2007 @ 12pm
Red Bank's effort to shut down Best Liquors on Leighton Avenue won't go before an administrative law judge until March 5, nine months after the Borough Council voted to yank the store's license. Borough Attorney Tom Hall got word of...
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August 28th, 2007 @ 10am
A year after Democrats predicted Red Bank taxes would go down in 2007, the Borough Council last night finalized this year's budget. Taxes went up. As the Borough Council majority sees it, though, the local bite was made as painless...
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August 28th, 2007 @ 8am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Fourteen months ago, the Municipal Land Use Center, a federally-funded, anti-sprawl think tank based at the College of New Jersey in Ewing, chose eight central New Jersey towns to share in $300,000 to come up with...
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August 27th, 2007 @ 11am
Red Bank Police will man a DWI spot-check on Newman Springs Road beginning at 11p tonight, the department says in a press release. The sobriety checkpoint will stay up until 3a. Extra patrols will also be on the lookout for...
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August 24th, 2007 @ 8am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Just two weeks after a controversial go-ahead for Sea Bright officials to try to buy Donovan's Reef, negotiations have come to a halt. Mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka-Adams tells redbankgreen today that the sellers have rejected the borough's...
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August 23rd, 2007 @ 3pm
Last week's 'Where' brought a stampede of responses from readers hoping to be the first to identify a business that must be near and dear to their hearts. Yes, it's the Little Silver Family Pharmacy, a Church Street emporium that's...
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August 23rd, 2007 @ 11am
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FALL COLORS IN RED BANK
redbankgreen's Partyline captures peaking fall foliage on a Red Bank street corner.
FALL AT THE COURTS OF RED BANK
On the Partyline: stunning foliage at Red Bank's "medieval office park."
WALK FOR DEMOCRACY
The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center led a "Walk for Democracy" Sunday from Riverside Gardens Park to the cultral center on Drs. James Park ...
Go big or go home
On the redbankgreen Partyline: Gourd display at Lighthouse on its penultimate night of the season.
MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
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 ...
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