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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Charlotte Scherer, left, and Ambra Talarico prepare to load a painting from Art Forms into a car. It was late on a chilly, gray, drizzly Sunday afternoon, a quiet time on the eve of New Year's Eve. But three Monmouth...
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December 31st, 2007 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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All the same professionals hired by Red Bank last year will likely be reappointed when the borough government reorganizes tomorrow, says Mayor Pasquale Menna. But four of them currently participating in the state Public Employee Retirement System through the borough...
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December 31st, 2007 @ 10am
Nicole Atkins and the Sea at Jack's Music earlier this month. Among rising global acts such as Arcade Fire and Amy Winehouse, Neptune singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins finds her major-label debut LP "Neptune City" in the top 10 of the year...
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December 28th, 2007 @ 8am
Sea Bright's proposed oceanfront skatepark caught some air earlier this month, when Monmouth County came through with a $153,000 open space grant. Now, says Mayor-elect Maria Fernandes, comes the trick of raising the remaining $214,000 in estimated costs and clearing...
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December 28th, 2007 @ 8am
A suspect whose escape in the Dec. 10 burglary of a Catherine Street home was said to be witnessed by neighbors has been arrested, according to police Capt. Steve McCarthy, head of the detective bureau. Milo Rainey, 28, who police...
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December 27th, 2007 @ 3pm
The place is something of a mess, frankly. Puddles. Dust. Display cases out of place. But that's what you get when you dismantle a business that's home to tons of bagged pet food, dozens of rabbits and other mammals and...
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December 27th, 2007 @ 7am
Sometimes, Mrs. redbankgreenman stumps redbankgreenman with the photos she brings back from her 'Where' scouting expeditions. That was the case with last week's entry. Cathi Swett, though, knew it right off. "In Fair Haven, on River Road," Cathi writes in....
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December 27th, 2007 @ 6am
Frank Sole has been a member of the Red Bank Independent Engine Company 93 for 57 years, and still responds to up to three-quarters of the alarms each year from his home in the River Plaza section of Middletown. Today's...
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December 27th, 2007 @ 6am
Today's Star-Ledger takes a look at the "dismal" year that Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises has had. And the coming year doesn't look at lot brighter. But to make that point, the page-one story kicks off with an an anecdote that...
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December 26th, 2007 @ 8am
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December 25th, 2007 @ 11am
Samantha 'Sam' Lee at Fair Haven borough hall By LINDA G. RASTELLI Samantha 'Sam' Lee knows from customer service. She's tended the fresh farmhouse cheeses at London luxury purveyor Harrods and assembled gift baskets at Sickles Market. But if Fair...
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December 24th, 2007 @ 10am
It's crunch time, fellow proscrastinators. But if the thought of Christmas shopping this weekend leaves you looking a little like Tootsie and Twinkle here, don't despair. A quick spin through downtown Red Bank is all it takes to start you...
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December 21st, 2007 @ 8am
A Rumson physician who was indicted in October on federal drug charges is facing a possible loss of his medical license, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners took up the administrative case of...
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December 21st, 2007 @ 6am
"Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel:" the phrase itself is loaded with the suggestion of graphite. So it's fitting that "Persepolis" the new film version of Satrapi's bestselling story, is also almost entirely in black & white, exploring as it does...
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December 20th, 2007 @ 1pm
Re Bank Municipal Court Judge William Himelman expressed frustration this morning over delays concerning evidence in the DWI case of local publisher Claudia Ansorge. "It's now too long" since a Monmouth County Grand Jury decided not to indict Ansorge last...
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December 20th, 2007 @ 12pm
It took two weeks to find a winner, and a tentative one at that. Even though he or she framed the answer as a question — "Is it the side of the French Restaurant on the corner of Wharf Avenue...
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December 20th, 2007 @ 7am
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December 20th, 2007 @ 7am
Two local restaurants — Thyme Square, on Broad Street, and Nicholas, on Route 35 in Middletown — are included in the 'ten best' list of those visited this year by Star-Ledger reviewer Art Namendorf, who goes by the nom de...
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December 20th, 2007 @ 6am
Mayor Pasquale Menna may live to regret his pledge to axe borough health benefits for himself and future mayors. Last night, in what appeared to be an off-the-cuff retort, Menna said he would run the George Sheehan Classic, a somewhat...
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December 20th, 2007 @ 6am
Councilman R.J Bifani The best part, hands down, he says, is what was accomplished in the realm of housing on the West Side. At his last meeting as a member of the Red Bank Borough Council last night, R.J. Bifani...
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December 20th, 2007 @ 6am
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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 ...