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Monthly Archives: September 2007

A proposed deal that would have put the historic T. Thomas Fortune house into the hands of developers is dead for now, redbankgreen has learned. Real estate broker Geoff Brothers, who is handling the sale, confirmed that the would-be buyers,...
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September 28th, 2007 @ 3pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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The newly restored chapel and adjacent grounds at the Fort at Sandy Hook will be the site of a fall arts festival hosted by the Fort Foundation for Arts and Education this weekend. With registrations beginning at 10a, the Saturday...
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September 28th, 2007 @ 7am
Red Bank GOP council candidate James A. Coolahan today accused Mayor Pasquale Menna of having leaked information about financial difficulties Coolahan has experienced, in possible violation of attorney ethics rules. Coolahan made the allegation in an interview this afternoon with...
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September 27th, 2007 @ 6pm
Mayor Pasquale Menna, a lifelong liberal Democrat, has merged his one-man legal practice into a three-lawyer partnership that includes Republican Caroline Casagrande. Yes, that Caroline Casagrande, who's running for a 12th-district Assembly seat on the same ticket as state Senate...
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September 27th, 2007 @ 3pm
A Pennsylvania couple who owned a purported Red Bank investment firm that offered specialized financial services for podiatrists have been indicted on state charges of bilking their clients out of more than $500,000, the Star-Ledger is reporting. From the article:...
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September 27th, 2007 @ 1pm
Its signs, and tiny cars, may have seemed ubiquitous. And the basic idea — transacting home sales at commission rates lower than those typically offered by real estate brokers — seemed like a winner. But local upstart Foxtons is sputtering...
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September 27th, 2007 @ 10am
We here at redbankgreen weren't the only ones who did a double-take on opening last Sunday's New York Times Magazine to page 39. "Is that who we think it is in the full-page patient testimonial for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center...
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September 27th, 2007 @ 7am
Care to take a guess as to where this photo was taken, and what it shows? If so, please send us an email. Last week, as is often the case, the Colmorgen Kids of Red Bank and Eatontown correctly identified...
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September 27th, 2007 @ 7am
Last Friday, the 25 students of the West Side Christian Academy in Red Bank took a field trip to Eastmont Orchards in Colts Neck for some apple-picking. Over the weekend, the apples they selected were transformed into more than a...
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September 26th, 2007 @ 8am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Mayor Mike Halfacre and the Fair Haven borough council got tough Monday night with its engineering firm for presenting a contract change order that would cost the borough an additional $67,000 for work on its $480,000...
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September 26th, 2007 @ 7am
It's not often that firebrand Republican Councilman John Curley makes much headway against the tide of the Democratic majority. But for a fleeting moment last night, Curley seemed to have raised concerns that just might bring the Dems around to...
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September 25th, 2007 @ 4pm
Red Bank RiverCenter's new executive director is Nancy Adams, a downtown revitalization consultant from Maplewood, who replaces longtime agency head Tricia Rumola. RiverCenter announced the hire in a press release issued this afternoon. redbankgreen hasn't yet heard back from Adams...
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September 25th, 2007 @ 2pm
The 12th-District Senate race between incumbent Democrat Ellen Karcher and Republican Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck, already framed by both sides as a contest over which candidate is the most committed to ethics reforms in Trenton, got personal yesterday. Karcher accused Beck,...
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September 25th, 2007 @ 10am
Is Red Bank about to start buzzing with funny-looking little electric cars? Could be, if early adapters follow the leads of two trendsetters. One is a furniture store known for impeccable taste in modern design. The other, as unlikely as...
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September 24th, 2007 @ 10am
There's lots of empty space as Michael Bonney transitions his Monmouth Street shop from a newsstand to a convenience store. By LINDA G. RASTELLI When Michael Bonney bought Red Bank News in May, it seemed the decades-old monument to print...
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September 24th, 2007 @ 8am
Miami Dolphins fanatic Robert Greene in his field of dreams on Chapin Avenue, where the kick is always good and no opponent dares show his face. Just once a year, barring an extraordinary playoff situation that adds another matchup, the...
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September 22nd, 2007 @ 3pm
That's right, two chances in two days to see Red Bank's finest blues band. And you can't beat the price on either one. The Little Silver show is from 7 to 9p. The Gazebo is on Markham Place next to...
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September 21st, 2007 @ 3pm
Starting next month, Diney's Place/The Children's Cultural Center won't be just for kids anymore. Turns out that investing a ton of money to transform the former Red Bank municipal building and police station into a learning center full of digital...
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September 21st, 2007 @ 7am
Dale Connor, the tax court clerk in Fair Haven, is getting a new office. Not a bigger one. A second one, right next to the workspace she already uses. And she'll be required by the state's highest court to split...
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September 21st, 2007 @ 7am
Monica Oswald, the Riverview Medical Center nurse who caught a monster fluke in the Atlantic Ocean last month, has been denied the world record designation over a technicality, today's Star-Ledger reports. The International Game Fish Association, which has jurisdiction over...
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September 20th, 2007 @ 10am
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 ...