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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Takin' it to 'The Bank?' An owner of Chubby's hopes so. Chubby's Waterside Cafe, a timeworn nightclub that claims the only cabaret license in Red Bank, wants to go upscale, and skyward, too. Co-owner Michael Gilson of Little Silver hopes...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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In recent years, photographers Bob McKay & Elisabeth Koch-McKay have been Red Bank's foremost curators of photographic work, cultivating art that's bold and demure, edgy and comforting, but always transporting. For their newest show at the McKay Imaging gallery on...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 10am
Though the little man shown in last week's 'Where' has many clones (or more likely, is himself a clone), three readers had no problem identifying where he hangs his cap at night. Bobby Holiday was the first in with the...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 10am
Mayor Pasquale Menna and Police Chief Mark Fitzgerald continue to stick to the information blackout imposed on them by by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office last week in the wake of the shootings at the Montgomery Terrace public housing units...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 8am
The former Count Basie Learning Center, a site that proponents favor as the future home of a community center. Outrage over social conditions that some citizens linked to last month's double shootings at the Montgomery Terrace public-housing project pushed the...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 7am
A former political opponent of soon-to-be-ex Sea Bright Mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka-Adams has asked the Monmouth County Prosecutor to investigate the role the mayor may have played in a recent borough court matter that resulted in a local noise ordinance being...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 12pm
Red Bank officials are hoping to boost fees for the licensing of dogs and cats. A proposed ordinance amendment slotted for introduction at tonight's council meeting would increase the dog license fee to $10.80 per year, from $6.80. A $1.20...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 10am
By TIM HATHAWAY The extra $368,000 in state funding that Red Bank schools received last year may have been a windfall, but schools Superintendent Laura Morana says there should be even more in the kitty this year. According to Morana,...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 10am
Federal immigration-law enforcers nearly doubled the number of arrests of illegal aliens in New Jersey during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, today's Star-Ledger reports. A total of 2,079 illegal aliens were taken into custody by four teams of...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 7am
Buona Sera's plan to expand into the space now used by Fins and Feathers was approved by the Planning Board earlier this week. It doesn't have a single parking space to offer its customers, but Buona Sera Ristorante has gotten...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 7am
Gov. Jon Corzine wants to dramatically expand preschool programs statewide, today's Star-Ledger reports. The plan, the Ledger says, includes a proposal to require — and ultimately pay for — full-day preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds in at least 100 low-...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 7am
Red Bank Police Chief Mark Fitzgerald checks out a new metal detector at Borough Hall Tuesday. The $3,500 device will be used to scan visitors to Municipal Court, but not attendees to other borough functions such as council and planning...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 6am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Three Red Bank residents have been arrested and charged for their alleged roles in a rash of burglaries of cars in Fair Haven, Rumson, Red Bank and Little Silver, according to Fair Haven Police Chief Darryl...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 6am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI On month after the polls closed, Maria Fernandes is still Sea Bright's mayor-elect. A recount of the results this morning yielded no change in outcome, an official at the Monmouth County Clerk's office tells redbankgreen. The...
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December 4th, 2007 @ 12pm
Amanda McKean outside Zebu Forno in Red Bank. Amanda McKean spent two years as a toddler fighting leukemia. Thirteen years later, she’s a high school junior organizing an event at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional to for pediatric cancer awareness. Tomorrow night,...
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December 4th, 2007 @ 10am
State Senator-elect Jennifer Beck on election night last month. Spending on this year's legislative races blew past the old record set in 2003 by 21 percent, today's Star-Ledger reports, with one in four races costing more than $1 million. And...
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December 4th, 2007 @ 7am
A pack of unidentified runners thunders down blustery West Front Street late Monday afternoon. Today's weather forecast: partly sunny, with a high near 39. Breezy, with a west wind between 20 and 26 mph, with gusts as high as 43...
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December 4th, 2007 @ 7am
Borough Attorney Ken Pringle, left, and partner Tom Hall at a Red Bank council meeting in July. Borough Attorney Ken Pringle tells redbankgreen that faulty memory led to a situation in which his firm faced off against Verizon New Jersey...
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December 3rd, 2007 @ 1pm
A dark quilt of clouds lies low over the sunlit intersection of Broad Street, Reckless Place and Harding Road late this morning. Hold onto your hats, and keep an eye on those shingles. The National Weather Service is forecasting a...
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December 3rd, 2007 @ 12pm
The Verizon building at 183 Broad Street. The politically connected law firm representing Red Bank's mayor and council is stepping away from a tax court case involving Verizon Inc. because the firm's lobbying arm represents the telecom giant in Trenton,...
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December 3rd, 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 ...