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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Last week's Where yielded yet another surprising result: three out of the five readers who wrote in were mistaken about what we thought was an obvious location. Peter DeFazio and Joe Sapienza got it right: a side wall at Nirvana,...
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March 13th, 2008 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Anthony Sims, the 19-year-old who became a fugitive for two months after a Red Bank shooting that left two men near death in late November, has been indicted for attempted murder, the Asbury Park Press reports. A Monmouth County grand...
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March 12th, 2008 @ 4pm
Two views of the disused borough parking lot at the foot of Maple Avenue that may come up for sale this year. Click to enlarge images. Hoping to trim a proposed budget that would otherwise sock property owners with a...
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March 12th, 2008 @ 12pm
Cast members rehearse for next week's Cool School Showcase event at the Count Basie Theatre. By TOM CHESEK In some respects, it's not all that different from those good old school talent shows that generations have known and tolerated. Only...
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March 12th, 2008 @ 7am
Melissa Dominach and Bailey Taft with Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna, left, and Councilman John Curley. Last month, redbankgreen featured Bailey Taft and Melissa Dominach, seventh-graders from the Knollwood School in Fair Haven who had launched a non-profit enterprise to...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 11am
Red Bank officials last night introduced a proposed 2008-'09 budget that would increase the local portion of the typical homeowner's property taxes by $311.20 per year. The figure is just a starting point for several weeks of refining and public...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 10am
Now's a good time to fix that drip... The impact of three years of infrastructure emergencies will be reflected in the next round of water bills to Red Bank users. The borough council last night approved a 10-percent increase in...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 9am
The Asbury Park Press is reporting that four people were sent to Riverview Medical Center after a motor vehicle accident on West Bergen Avenue. From the Press: Four people suffered injuries this morning when a car and a pick-up truck...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 8am
Red Bank Catholic and St. James Elementary School are about to see their trash-removal costs rise. Red Bank is tightening its fiscal belt, and non-profits that generate more trash than the typical household are about to feel the pinch. Last...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 7am
An aerial view of Harding Road and Prospect Avenue, marked up with possible changes and a data box describing current conditions. Engineers recommended a less extensive fix than the one shown. Click to enlarge. The troubled intersection of Prospect Avenue...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 6am
Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises reported its sixth consecutive quarterly loss yesterday, this time a $131 million shortfall that was double the year-prior amount. The publicly traded homebuilder, which operates in 19 states, managed to sell more units in its lastest...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 6am
By TOM CHESEK With his luxurious mane of silver hair, his Continental bearing, and his years of training in the most formidable academies of the former Soviet Union, Vladislav Kovalsky could be said to embody the very image of the...
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March 10th, 2008 @ 2pm
A plastic shopping bag flutters in a tree on Monmouth Street recently. It's not quite the far-reaching approach that its sponsor, Councilman Mike DuPont, first proposed late last year. But an ordinance that DuPont thinks will enable Red Bank to...
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March 10th, 2008 @ 12pm
Ed Zipprich's civic-minded dessert, complete with iceboat logo. Turns out Red Bank's centennial did not go completely overlooked this weekend. River Road resident Ed Zipprich and his partner, JP Nicolaides, threw a little party for neighbors and friends that featured...
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March 10th, 2008 @ 12pm
Where's Willard Scott? Where's the cake? Where's our SILLY PARTY HAT? Red Bank Borough is 100 years old today! Or next Monday, depending on which birth certificate you go by. A century ago, on March 10, 1908, the New Jersey...
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March 10th, 2008 @ 8am
The following are entries in the Red Bank police logs from Feb. 29 through March 7. The information is supplied by the police department and unedited. Robbery occurring on 2-29-08 in the area of Shrewsbury Ave. Victim reported that he...
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March 7th, 2008 @ 5pm
Two River Theater founder Bob Rechnitz apparently can't believe what he's hearing as zoning board members detail their objections to his proposal. Bob Rechnitz thought he had a can't-miss idea. Buy a single-family house on the West Side of Red...
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March 7th, 2008 @ 9am
Bruce Springsteen has scheduled a May 7 concert at the Count Basie Theatre as a fundraiser for the historic Red Bank venue and some of its programs. The Monmouth Street theatre announced the rare headline appearance by the rocker this...
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March 6th, 2008 @ 10am
At least one member of the sprawling redbankgreen staff expected more readers to recognize last week's image, which showed a basic cinderblock shell of a building under construction. The reason: its location, at the Sea Bright anchorage of the Rumson-Sea...
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March 6th, 2008 @ 7am
Today's Asbury Park Press, in a story about rising overtime costs for employees of Middletown, reports that seven members of the township police department called in sick on Super Bowl Sunday. The news is contained in the context of a...
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March 6th, 2008 @ 6am
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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 ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.