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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Planner Paul Szymanski testifies on behalf of the developer about the proposed project at Thursday night's zoning board meeting. A 36-unit affordable housing project envisioned alongside a rail yard on Red Bank's West Side sailed to unanimous approval by the...
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January 9th, 2009 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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No. 136 in the series. Of the 13 responses to last week's Where, seven were wrong. So naturally, we at Where Central could not be more delighted. A near-even split! Six readers thought the picture was taken at the Red...
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January 8th, 2009 @ 6am
It took a tiebreaker vote by the newly elected Wall Township mayor, a Republican, to hand the job of town attorney to Monmouth County GOP Chairman and former Sheriff Joseph Oxley last night, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The appointment...
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January 8th, 2009 @ 6am
A dolphin in the Shrewsbury River in November. Federal marine life authorities say only five of the original 16 Atlantic bottlenose dolphins that set up house in inland waters here last June remain, and that more are likely to die....
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January 8th, 2009 @ 5am
June Connors (nee Evans) strikes a familiar pose at the McKay Gallery last month. The original shot is below. (Photo above courtesy Liz & Bob McKay) She's frozen eternally in a moment of school-spirit optimism, a girl in cheerleader regalia...
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January 7th, 2009 @ 8am
Emily Asher Neiman works the room at an opening in September. By TOM CHESEK Veteran observers of Red Bank's commercial streetscape know that the phenomenon known as "the Retail Churn" goes into overdrive each January, regardless of the general economic...
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January 7th, 2009 @ 6am
Fans gather at the Stash for a 2006 appearance by Kevin Smith. Filmmaker Kevin Smith is closing the Los Angeles version of the Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash store, according to reports. As reported on News Askew, the official...
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January 6th, 2009 @ 7am
216 Pine Place in Middletown. A redbankgreen reader with a nose for financial hanky-panky calls our attention to a house for sale in the River Plaza section of Middletown. Turns out this is the home built by two defendants in...
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January 6th, 2009 @ 5am
By SUE MORGAN Members of the newly-installed Republican majority in Sea Bright are hoping to land Joseph Oxley, their party's Monmouth County chairman, as borough attorney, redbankgreen has learned. If they succeed next month, it would mark the second such...
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January 5th, 2009 @ 6am
Mayor Pasquale Menna. In the face of an historic economic downturn, Red Bank is trimming pay for its planning and zoning board attorneys, looking at a five-percent, across-all-departments budget cut and trying to hold the line in contract talks with...
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January 2nd, 2009 @ 10am
Ed Zipprich and Juanita Lewis make their New Year's Day debuts as elected officials. Running mates Juanita Lewis and Ed Zipprich, who drubbed their Republican opponents in the November election, were sworn in as council members at yesterday's annual reorganization...
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January 2nd, 2009 @ 9am
Be prepared for at least two meetings monthly if you'd like to serve. Got some ideas about how to improve the Red Bank school district? Ready to shed the anonymity of redbankgreen comments and put your money where your mouth...
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January 2nd, 2009 @ 8am
Councilman Jon Peters was elected president of the Fair Haven Council yesterday after Mayor Mike Halfacre tossed a coin to break a 2-2 tie, today's Asbury Park Press reports: The vote was split between veteran Councilman Jerome Koch, who was...
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January 2nd, 2009 @ 7am
Jet planes etched a pair of vapor trails in the crisp, cold sky beyond St. James RC Church in Red Bank late Thursday afternoon. The National Weather Service forecasts cloudy skies, a chance of snow showers before 3p and a...
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January 2nd, 2009 @ 7am
'Where Have I Seen This?' returns this week after taking a Christmas holiday — it's first break since we launched redbankgreen on June 1, 2006. So where does 'Where' go on vacation? We'll never tell. It's a secret. Let's just...
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January 1st, 2009 @ 6am
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 ...