Skip to content
Brian Donohue
Editor Brian Donohue
Long Live Local News
Get "The Blast" Newsletter

A town square for an unsquare town

redbankgreen

Standing for the vitality of Red Bank, its community, and the fun we have together.

Monthly Archives: August 2007

By LINDA G. RASTELLI The end of summer, when the season is in its final flush of glory, is like no other time. And the Firemen’s Fair in Fair Haven celebrates it with gusto. On a typical warm night, fairgoers...
Post a comment
August 23rd, 2007 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
redbankgreen Classics
Most weekdays during the school year, parking gets pretty tight along East Bergen Place between Broad and South streets. The return of autumn means that Broad Street Post Office employees who find refuge for their cars at the Red Bank...
Post a comment
August 22nd, 2007 @ 12pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Disagreements over a monthly film series have led to the resignation of Richard Alter as chairman of the Freedom Film Society, the nonprofit group that puts on the widely acclaimed Red Bank International Film Festival each...
Post a comment
August 21st, 2007 @ 6am
Email this item
Post a comment
August 20th, 2007 @ 11am
The Wingmen Driving Service, introduced to the world by redbankgreen back in June, is the subject of a 'Talk of the Town' piece in this week's New Yorker magazine. The business, started by four college-aged Rumson men not old enough...
Post a comment
August 20th, 2007 @ 6am
A $700,000 project to spruce up pedestrian crossings and reconfigure traffic-signal timing at Broad Street, Maple Avenue and Newman Springs Road is to start Monday, the state Department of Transportation says in a press release. From a story in today's...
Post a comment
August 18th, 2007 @ 10am
Even amid a summer-long crackdown on underage drinking at the PNC Arts Center in Holmdel, two concertgoers in their twenties died last night from a combination of booze and drugs, authorities say. The deaths came amid "mayhem" at the all-day,...
Post a comment
August 17th, 2007 @ 1pm
[THIS IS AN UPDATE OF AN EARLIER POST] Part-time Rumsonite Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band may be reuniting for a tour in support of a new album, titled 'Magic,' to be released in Oct. 2, the Associated Press...
Post a comment
August 16th, 2007 @ 10am
With brother Carl away on vacation, Bob and eternally young Kathy Lou Colmorgen were deprived of their customary wheelman last week. It's Carl, you see, who likes to jump in his car to hunt down or confirm suspected 'Where' locations...
Post a comment
August 16th, 2007 @ 7am
A $40,950 grant awarded by the state last week will pay for a study to explore the feasibility of merging police departments in Fair Haven, Rumson and Little Silver, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The analysis will be conducted by...
Post a comment
August 16th, 2007 @ 6am
David Larotonda checks out a GEM electric car on Madison Avenue earlier this year. Yes, the borough vehicles will have doors. After a short-circuited bid last spring, the Borough of Red Bank is back on the fast track to energy...
Post a comment
August 15th, 2007 @ 6am
Today's Asbury Park Press reports that the cell tower planned for Fair Haven won't be a giant faux tree or, as reporter Larry Higgs puts it, won't resemble a common bathroom cleaning implement. Borough Planning Board members only had two...
Post a comment
August 15th, 2007 @ 6am
Tricia Rumola, a borough native who rose from college intern to executive director of Red Bank RiverCenter and helped solidify its national reputation in the realm of downtown revitalizations, is leaving the organization at the end of the month. Rumola...
Post a comment
August 14th, 2007 @ 1pm
Email this batch of groovy pix
Post a comment
August 14th, 2007 @ 12pm
Tax bills reflecting the yet-to-be finalized 2007 municipal rate are landing in Red Bank mailboxes, and the annual rite of collective frustration they bring was amplified at last night's council session by the impact of this year's property revaluations. Things...
Post a comment
August 14th, 2007 @ 11am
A comment attributed to the late Monmouth County Freeholder Harry Larrison Jr. while he was under investigation for public corruption has raised some eyebrows at Red Bank Borough Hall. The remark appeared in an Asbury Park Press story Sunday, a...
Post a comment
August 14th, 2007 @ 10am
Linda Clark makes the case for a town center. The idea of creating a community center at a Red Bank-owned building on the West Side is one that "needs plenty more discussion," children's activist David Prown told a crowded Borough...
Post a comment
August 14th, 2007 @ 9am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI It was a business idea born in a flash, and on the gauziest of foundations. But hearing about it, you just had to hope that it would make it. Two strangers vying for the seized merchandise...
Post a comment
August 13th, 2007 @ 11am
The big money stayed home. Once again, Red Bank's efforts to auction off a borough-owned building at the corner of Drs. Parker Boulevard and Bridge Avenue have failed. At a scheduled auction this afternoon, nobody bid. The same thing happened...
Post a comment
August 10th, 2007 @ 3pm
Red Bank police say a South Street homeowner interrupted an attempted break-in of his house early yesterday afternoon. The incident occurred at about 1:05p when the homeowner, who had been away from his home a short period, discovered an unknown...
Post a comment
August 10th, 2007 @ 11am
Partyline
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 ...