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Monthly Archives: December 2008

Customers waited out the outage by candlelight at the Broadway Diner. (Click to enlarge) Donna Natale of Sea Bright was in the Shrewsbury Car Wash when the power went out ever so briefly early Tuesday night. It came right back...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 10pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Volunteer firefighters and first aid squad members stood by at the Liberty Hose firehouse on White Street during the widespread power outage Tuesday evening. (Click to enlarge) Burglar and fire alarms went off all over town, prompting the police chief...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 10pm
George Kolber speaks; Councilman Art Murphy listens. Throwing a possible speed bump in the path of the Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County, the owners of the recently repurposed former PS 5 on Drs. James Parker Boulevard last night...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 11am
Dolphins in the Shrewsbury River on Saturday, as seen from the Highlands side. (Photo courtesy of Robin Dowd) The Associated Press reports that federal wildlife experts will confer this week about what to do if the remaining dolphins plying the...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 10am
In a show of hands, cab drivers signal their opposition to a proposed increase in the number of taxi licenses. A proposed ordinance that would have boosted the number of taxi licenses in Red Bank to 55, from 45, was...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 7am
Following through on plans reported on by redbankgreen in October, Riverview Medical Center has demolished the former Worden-Hoidal Funeral Home on East Front Street, opposite the hospital. Officials at the medical center, which paid $2.3 for the site in July,...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 6am
Fair Haven is advising residents at the western end of the borough that water pressure to their homes may drop this morning as Red Bank, which supplies water to those users, tests two new hydrants on Cambridge Avenue. The testing,...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 6am
The Two River Theater Co. brings a children's favorite, 'A Year with Frog and Toad,' to life starting this week for a run through the holiday-season. A family-oriented production with an engaging scene set on Christmas Eve, the musical comes...
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December 8th, 2008 @ 11am
State Senator Jennifer Beck is about to add a new line or two to her résumé. Twelfth-district state Senator Jennifer Beck has been awarded a fellowship by the Aspen Institute, where elected officials study the values and principles underlying democracy,...
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December 8th, 2008 @ 11am
Some of the finer sounds from downtown Red Bank this Saturday included the voices of fifth-graders from the River Plaza School in Middletown... who sang from the steps of the Children's Cultural Center on Monmouth Street... while members of the...
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December 8th, 2008 @ 7am
A player for Holy Cross, in Rumson, goes baseline, and below, Coach Kevin Lydon instructs his players from the Knollwood School, Fair Haven, in strategy during a Saturday morning game. Lydon, who coaches both the girls' and boy's teams, led...
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December 8th, 2008 @ 7am
Unedited entries from the Red Bank Police desk log for the period of November 21 to December 5. Theft occurring on 11-21-08 at Bridge Ave. Victim reported that upon returning to residence after work discovered that cash and clothes had...
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December 8th, 2008 @ 6am
Scenes from the Westside Community Group's annual tree-lighting ceremony at Westside Park (the triangular park at the corner of Shrewsbury Avenue and Drs. James Parker Boulevard) in Red Bank Saturday evening. Just look at those faces, huh? And how about...
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December 6th, 2008 @ 6pm
Oh, and the parking is free all day, even if the meters aren't bagged. Economic conditions, to be sure, are not favorable, and they're markedly worse than when store owners and restaurateurs dreamed up 'Red Bank Residents' Appreciation Day' earlier...
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December 5th, 2008 @ 2pm
Primary school Principal Rick Cohen and Superintendent Laura Morana at a 2007 event. The Asbury Park Press has a dramatic account today of the previously unreported role of the principal and a guidance counselor at the Red Bank Primary School...
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December 5th, 2008 @ 8am
Details about the roles of Primary School Principal Rick Cohen and guidance counselor Karl Parker in subduing a man as he stabbed his former girlfriend at the school entrance Wednesday morning emerged a day after Superintendent Laura Morana told reporters...
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December 5th, 2008 @ 8am
Employees of Siciliano Landscape prepare the Maple Avenue lot for grass seed Wednesday. Just nine months ago, a quarter-acre parcel of Red Bank-owned land on the Navesink River appeared headed toward the auction block to provide cash for tax relief....
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December 5th, 2008 @ 7am
Getting an early jump on a packed calendar of weekend events, today's edition of Red Bank oRBit brings you these holiday season nuggets: • A steaming slab 'o Meat Loaf • Tree lightings here and there in our corner of...
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December 4th, 2008 @ 10am
Officials in Fair Haven are weighing whether to route all emergency calls from the borough to the Monmouth County Sheriff's office as a cost-saving measure, the Asbury Park Press reports today. Under the proposal, all police, fire and first aid...
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December 4th, 2008 @ 10am
Red Bank Regional appears ready to join the ranks of other high schools that permit their students to apply for colleges without reporting their class ranking levels, according to today's Asbury Park Press. From the story: The board is close...
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December 4th, 2008 @ 9am
Partyline
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 ...