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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit takes a look at the noteworthy durability of a pop-rock band based in Middletown called the Wag. Given a name they weren't sure they wanted when they started out a decade ago, the powerpoppy...
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September 23rd, 2008 @ 10am
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The scene at a house on Wallace Street near McClaren Saturday morning. The big question leading up to last weekend's Red Bank Townwide Yard sale — how much trash would be left out afterward — has been answered. "There were...
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September 23rd, 2008 @ 10am
Wanted for a proposed center at this borough-owned building: a management entity. A task force formed earlier this year to suss out the potential costs of a Red Bank community center got a green light last night from the borough...
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September 23rd, 2008 @ 9am
Deer seen last week in Thompson Park, Lincroft. Email this story
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September 23rd, 2008 @ 8am
Red Bank's Manny Carabel got this shot of President Bush debarking Marine One at Cross Farm Park in Holmdel this afternoon. During a 90-minute visit, Bush attended a closed fundraiser for two Republican Congressional candidates — neither from Monmouth County...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 5pm
The weather was largely spectacular and the excitement level high for Saturday's first-ever Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale. Sellers at some West Side locations had hoped for a bit more traffic, and the two families who set up tables in...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 8am
By SUE MORGAN With the tuition tab for each of about 27 students that Sea Bright sends to the Shore Regional High School District coming in at $81,000 for the 2008-09 academic year, borough officials say they will keep pushing...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 8am
Almost a year after it was first proposed, a ban on plastic bags remains hung up. It's on tonight's agenda for a public hearing and adoption vote. But a proposed ban on the distribution of plastic grocery bags, repeatedly tugged...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 7am
Things like props, scenery, costumes and even rehearsal schedules don’t matter too much when it comes to New Jersey Repertory Company’s long-running series of script-in-hand readings at its downtown Long Branch playhouse. It's a series that's seen the likes of...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 6am
A day in the sunshine preceded an evening of awards at the I Build, U-Build We Build a Better Community Family Day at Red Bank's Count Basie Park on Saturday. Honorees included Larry Hamm, a human rights activist in Newark;...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 6am
James Richter, long-distance bargain hunter. redbankgreen covered a fair amount of ground Saturday, but we kept hearing about a guy who'd really clocked some miles for the Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale. Word was he'd traveled 140 miles from Kingston,...
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September 21st, 2008 @ 10pm
Members of the Red Bank Fire Department were on the scene following the partial collapse of a foundation wall at 92 Wallace Street Saturday afternoon. The wall buckled inward around 1p during renovation work on the house. No one was...
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September 20th, 2008 @ 5pm
The suspect in the robbery of the Sovereign Bank branch on Broad Street in Red Bank earlier this month has admitted to that heist, according to a Red Bank Police official. The Star-Ledger reports that 39-year-old Robert Arndt, who was...
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September 19th, 2008 @ 3pm
Believe the balloons: No fewer than 147 homes, plus the public library, are participating in Saturday's Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale. One "seller" is giving everything away, free. Somebody else has a toilet and sink for sale. There are Christmas...
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September 19th, 2008 @ 8am
Today's edition gives the rundown on these events happening locally tonight and tomorrow: • A funeral, of sorts, for Gram Parsons, a guy who's been dead 35 years but whose music is very much alive in a tribute show in...
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September 19th, 2008 @ 8am
We're getting a lot of inquiries today at redbankgreen asking when the list of participating sellers in the Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale will be available. Answer: Late Friday morning. Registrations are still coming in at the Red Bank DPW,...
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September 18th, 2008 @ 1pm
'Halfway to St. Paddy's Day?' That's a holiday? In the immortal word of Frank McCourt, 'Tis. Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit stumbles upon a brewing local phenomenon: beer-serving establishments, and the bands that play them, celebrating the midpoint between...
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September 18th, 2008 @ 7am
Step right up if you think you can identify the location of this week's Where, folks. The email in-basket is now accepting entries. In fact, it's overdue for some. Last week's image drew no responses at all. The location of...
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September 18th, 2008 @ 7am
A side-view mirror from the bus lies on the ground and the crumbled pickup truck is visible in the intersection, above. Below, damage to the bus shows the impact was in the area of the driver's seat. A pickup truck...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 3pm
A Middletown woman has a date in muncipal court next month on disorderly persons charges that she abandoned three gerbils and a hamster in the woods, the Asbury Park Press reports. If found guilty, she faces up to $8,000 in...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 11am
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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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