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Monthly Archives: August 2008

You never know what you'll find. From the Navesink River to Newman Springs Road, Red Bank will transform itself into a bazaar on Saturday, September 20, with its first-ever Townwide Yard Sale. Today, redbankgreen launches a webpage dedicated to the...
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August 29th, 2008 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Red Bank police will be out on Newman Springs Road Saturday night and Sunday morning looking for drunk drivers. A press release from the department says the 11p-to-3a stationary crackdown, funded by a state grant, will be supplemented by mobile...
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August 29th, 2008 @ 8am
Fortunately, we had file art on hand to save us another trip out to Hudson. Remember those two-hour parking signs that replaced the ones put up just a few months ago? Of course you do; it happened just yesterday. Well,...
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August 28th, 2008 @ 3pm
A SKUNKLESS DAY ON THE ANIMAL CENSUS
Paul Ashton and his pet ferret, Flower, greet animal control guy Henry Perez. By COLLEEN CURRY Henry Perez doesn’t give up easily. After repeatedly knocking on an unassuming front door on Red Bank's West Side, he takes an investigative look...
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August 28th, 2008 @ 8am
The folks at Dunkin' Donuts HQ will eat this one up: redbankgreen readers apparently love their DDs. We received a record 18 responses to last week's 'Where,' and 17 of them were verifiably correct. The image was of the brand-new...
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August 28th, 2008 @ 8am
Authorities say they have arrested a suspect in the robbery of the Two Rivers Community Bank in Red Bank two weeks ago and four other area bank robberies. And he's local. Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis Valentin says in a statement...
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August 27th, 2008 @ 5pm
Nick Piscitelli of the Red Bank DPW re-installs a two-hour parking sign on Hudson Avenue this morning. Here's the latest twist in the tug-of-war for parking between Hudson Avenue residents and employees of the nearby Broad Street post office: The...
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August 27th, 2008 @ 2pm
Merchants say the tarry road gunk is being tracked into their stores. By SUE MORGAN Whatever it is that's holding together the pavement on River Road's north side, Gourmet Picnic co-owner Michael O'Brien doesn't like seeing it tracked into his...
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August 27th, 2008 @ 8am
Of 316 public high schools in New Jersey, Rumson-Fair Haven ranks 30th in overall quality and Red Bank Regional is 64th, according to a Monmouth University analysis reported in this month's issue of New Jersey Monthly magazine. R-FH moved up...
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August 27th, 2008 @ 8am
Bruce Springsteen's people are denying the Rumsonian rock star will alight on Denver's Invesco Field before or after Sen. Barack Obama's acceptance speech Thursday night. The Rocky Mountain News, which cited "multiple sources" in reporting yesterday on Springsteen's purported plan...
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August 26th, 2008 @ 1pm
"A disgrace," Councilman Art Murphy says of the morning-after conditions on the sidewalk alongside Ashes. Led by Councilman Art Murphy, the Red Bank Borough Council last came down with both feet on Ashes Cigar Club on Broad Street, refusing to...
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August 26th, 2008 @ 8am
James Giannell took his place at the council table, and a free-range plastic bag blew around out on Monmouth Street. Notes from last night's bimonthly meeting of the Red Bank Borough Council: • An ordinance to ban plastic bags commonly...
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August 26th, 2008 @ 7am
A serial burglar who authorities say preyed on the homes of young women on the East Side of Red Bank and photographed some as they slept has taken a plea deal that could put him in state prison for eight...
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August 26th, 2008 @ 6am
Bruce Springsteen signs autographs outside the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank in May. Report outta Denver today says Shore-based popstars Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi will play at the Democratic National Convention Thursday, bookending Sen. Barack Obama's nomination acceptance...
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August 25th, 2008 @ 2pm
Hudson Avenue residents won't have to plead a parking hardship to get permits under an ordinance up for adoption tonight — not that the requirement has ever kept anyone from getting one. At least one aspect of a pending lawsuit...
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August 25th, 2008 @ 11am
From the Red Bank Police Department, covering the week of August 15 to August 22. Entries are unedited. Criminal Mischief reported on 8-15-08 in parking lot at Bodman Place. Victim reported that parked vehicle had been scratched by unknown subject(s)...
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August 25th, 2008 @ 10am
Sen. Barack Obama Prepare for a traffic jam in the vicinity of Navesink River Road next week. Democratic presidential nominee-apparent Barack Obama will visit Middletown on Friday, September 5 for a two-stop lovefest that wraps up at the riverfront chateau...
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August 25th, 2008 @ 10am
Fishing in the Navesink River just east of the Oceanic Bridge Friday morning. Yes, the dolphins are still feeding on the other side of the bridge. Productivity schmoductivity. Have you opened a window today? It's gorgeous out there, and the...
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August 22nd, 2008 @ 12pm
Sea Bright's ready to talk with the seller of 3 Church Street. By SUE MORGAN It's spacious, filled with big windows, move-in ready and now, officially, on Sea Bright's wish list. The borough council this week authorized Borough Attorney Scott...
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August 22nd, 2008 @ 7am
OK, early birds. The first-ever Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale, scheduled for September 20, is coming together. And for those who plan ahead, here's some helpful starter info. There are some rules. The borough of Red Bank is asking that...
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August 22nd, 2008 @ 6am
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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.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...