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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Peninsula residents, here's your weekend homework assignment, and no, it can't wait until Labor Day: The final report of a consultant hired to look into the viability of merging the police departments of Fair haven, Little Silver and Rumson is...
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August 14th, 2008 @ 3pm
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Andrew Mencinsky and a brigade of sea paddlers head down the Hudson River last year. They'll be doing the same next week. In May, 2007, a two-mile-wide tornado tore through the town of Greensburg, Kansas, destroying 95 percent of its...
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August 14th, 2008 @ 10am
Do not... zzzzt zzzzt... do not adjust your dial... Ah, that's better, a picture rendered at a state-of-the-art 72 pixels per inch. Now: where was it taken? One reader mistook last week's 'Where' as showing the drainage system at Meadow...
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August 14th, 2008 @ 7am
The Star-Ledger, citing the Coast Guard as its source, reports that a boat out of Irwin Marina in Red Bank sank 80 miles east of Barnegat Light today and that all five on board were rescued by a good samaritan...
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August 13th, 2008 @ 4pm
Pathetic Charmingly simple yard sale signage points the way to unknown treasures. Mark those calendars, folks. The first-ever Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale is a go for Saturday, September 20, rain or shine. The borough council approved the event Monday...
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August 13th, 2008 @ 8am
Today's issue of the thrice-weekly Red Bank oRBit has, quite by chance, a water theme. First, there's our scoop from Red Bank's Broadway Diner, inexplicably overlooked by the media mob, on what GOP First Lady-contender Cindy McCain ordered when she...
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August 13th, 2008 @ 6am
Cindy McCain, right, wife of GOP presidential contender Sen. John McCain, arrives for lunch this afternoon at the Broadway Diner on Monmouth Street, accompanied by state Sen. Jennifer Beck. McCain was coming from a fundraiser in Rumson. She and her...
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August 12th, 2008 @ 1pm
Elmer and Jeff Jackson at the fog-wrapped Golden Gate Bridge as they prepared to start their ride June 3. (Photos by Tim Hathaway.) Two months and countless pedal strokes later, the No Regrets cross-country bike tour arrives in New Jersey...
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August 12th, 2008 @ 11am
A plastic bag stuck in a Monmouth Street tree last winter; a house on Washington Street that's part of the new historic district. Actions taken Monday night at the bimonthly meeting of the Red Bank Council. • A ban on...
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August 12th, 2008 @ 10am
GOP council candidates John Tyler, left, and Grace Cangemi, right, meet with reporters after last night's meeting. By virtue of a strong showing in last year's race, second-time council candidate John Tyler Jr. may have been the presumptive favorite to...
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August 12th, 2008 @ 7am
The Fair haven dock as seen on Friday. (Thanks to Joe Spagnuola for giving us access.) The rebuilding of the Fair Haven dock moved ahead last week with work on a new gazebo. Mayor Mike Halfacre tells redbankgreen that the...
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August 11th, 2008 @ 10am
Contrary to a report in Sunday's Record of Hackensack, GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain will not be dining at a private residence in Rumson tomorrow night. According to Mayor John Ekdahl, the Arizona senator's wife, Cindy McCain, is expected...
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August 11th, 2008 @ 10am
Today's edition of the thrice-weekly Red Bank oRBit features a report that Springsteen & Co. will command the halftime show at the next Super Bowl. Also in oRBit: • A look-ahead at some terrific events coming down in the next...
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August 11th, 2008 @ 8am
A rundown of crimes entered in the Red Bank police blotter from August 1 to August 8. Items are unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring on 8-3-08 at Riverside Parking Garage. Victim reported that upon returning to parked vehicle discovered the rear...
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August 11th, 2008 @ 8am
Curley: why hasn't Mallet repaid a nickel of her 2003 campaign debt? Freeholder candidate John Curley, getting a jump on the fall election battle, is taking Democratic opponent Amy Mallet to task for what he calls "illegal" machine-politics campaign funding....
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August 8th, 2008 @ 10am
"Hair" is back, and not only at the Public Theater in New York. A staging of the breakthrough rock musical is also in the works at the fabulous old Carousel building at the foot of the Asbury Park boardwalk. But...
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August 8th, 2008 @ 9am
Keith Rella, newsman in a hurry. If all goes according to his remarkably hasty plan, this time next week, Keith Rella will oversee a bunch of teenagers in newsie caps calling out "Extra, extra!" while distributing first editions of a...
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August 8th, 2008 @ 9am
This week: a rare multiple-angle clue set, because it's August and your brain is in the south of France, or maybe Beijing, while your body's here, stateside, on staycation. Last week's image showed an unusually tall fire hydrant being admired...
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August 7th, 2008 @ 7am
Frank Edgerly, head football coach at Red Bank Catholic for the past nine years, has taken a job as director of pigskin recruiting operations for Rutgers University, where he was a standout quarterback. The university announced Edgerly's hiring yesterday. He'll...
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August 7th, 2008 @ 6am
A 30-year-old Middletown man was ordered to a year's worth of psychiatric counseling after he pleaded guilty yesterday to beating three goslings to death with an umbrella, today's Press reports. Middletown Municipal Court Judge Michael D. Pugliese sentenced Michael Gonzalez...
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August 7th, 2008 @ 6am
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FALL COLORS IN RED BANK
redbankgreen's Partyline captures peaking fall foliage on a Red Bank street corner.
FALL AT THE COURTS OF RED BANK
On the Partyline: stunning foliage at Red Bank's "medieval office park."
WALK FOR DEMOCRACY
The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center led a "Walk for Democracy" Sunday from Riverside Gardens Park to the cultral center on Drs. James Park ...
Go big or go home
On the redbankgreen Partyline: Gourd display at Lighthouse on its penultimate night of the season.
MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
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