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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Girls in the limited-enrollment program for three- and four-year-olds holding hands as they run outside the Red Bank Middle School this week. Below, kids lined up for the start of playtime. (Click to enlarge) By JUDY DeHAVEN March 12 is...
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February 27th, 2009 @ 2pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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By JUDY DeHAVEN Specials are common at the Milagro Spa, but most feature an exotic indulgence: 'aromatic sugar scrubs,' 'stonecrop body wraps' and 'facial tea tree oil waxings,' to name a few. An event scheduled for Monday, March 2, is...
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February 27th, 2009 @ 10am
It wasn't hard to find visitors pumping coins into meters in Red Bank's White Street lot at lunchtime last Saturday. Above, Nicole Collman of Manalapan, left, with Rebecca Route of Jamesburg. With some fanfare, Mayor Pasquale Menna announced at last...
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February 27th, 2009 @ 8am
Rev. D. Crist Northington, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, speaks at shooting victim Sidney Wakefield's funeral Thursday. A funeral service for 26-year-old Sidney Wakefield, one of two men shot to death on Red Bank's West Side earlier this month,...
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February 27th, 2009 @ 6am
Somehow, for the entirety of its 96-year existence, Fair Haven — a town with more than its share of Wall Street workers among its 6,000 or so residents — has managed to get by without having to go to the...
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February 26th, 2009 @ 10am
Borough Attorney Ken Pringle, left, and partner Tom Hall at a Red Bank council meeting in July, 2007. Because of questions raised by government watchdog Steve Fitzpatrick, the Red Bank Council has taken Pringle, Quinn & Anzana, its contracted law...
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February 26th, 2009 @ 8am
Remember when you could only see a live show by Celine Dion by traveling to Vegas? Well, Red Bank has its very own "destination" act, the kind in which the fans do the touring and performers stay put. We're talking...
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February 26th, 2009 @ 7am
Last week's Where framed an odd mix of architectural surfaces. Among the responses: "rite aid" "The old K HOV building on Hwy 35 shot from Nicholas?" "I am totally guessing, but I think it might be the Viet Nam Vets...
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February 26th, 2009 @ 6am
Roofers atop a house on Branch Avenue in Red Bank take it down to the wood yesterday under clear, crisp skies. Looks like we'll get just a hint of spring today. Here's the National Weather Service forecast for our area:...
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February 26th, 2009 @ 5am
Location: Max Bernstein's home in Fair Haven. Occasion: Bernstein's annual Fat Tuesday party, a come-what-may affair that this year featured a live band in the living room; a guest appearance by Elvis; tarot readings; an aerialist's performance in the chilly...
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February 25th, 2009 @ 2pm
The shelves of Sunny Sharma's business, once stocked with hard liquor, now carry shaving cream and snacks. Milk and eggs have replaced beer as the products featured on the door. Sunny Sharma says he can't catch a break. It's not...
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February 25th, 2009 @ 8am
So what's a Momix Remix? It's a look back at more than 25 years worth of invention from the atelier of celebrated choreographer Moses Pendleton and his Momix Dance Theater company. A Momix performance finds human bodies exploring new and...
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February 25th, 2009 @ 7am
Entries from the Red Bank Police Department blotter for the week of February 13 to February 20, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Shoplifting occurring on 2-13-09 at Broad St. Victim reported unknown subject shoplifted two packages of a dietary...
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February 25th, 2009 @ 7am
Borough police would continue to have at least two officers on patrol, even when the police station is unstaffed, officials said. By SUE MORGAN There would be workshifts during which there are no live bodies inside the Fair Haven Police...
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February 25th, 2009 @ 6am
A Keansburg man has been charged with attempted robbery for his alleged attempt to rob a Red Bank liquor store at knifepoint in 2007. Capt. Steve McCarthy tells redbankgreen that borough police had been on the lookout for Nicholas Cournoyer,...
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February 25th, 2009 @ 6am
The view north along Bridge Avenue at Chestnut Street. Soon, motorists on Bridge will have to come to a full stop, as those on Chestnut already do. A couple of updates on traffic matters here in hububby Red Bank: Capt....
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February 24th, 2009 @ 11am
Community center proponents Peter Noble, president of the Red Bank Board of Ed, and David Prown after Monday's borough council session, which ran for almost three hours, as suggested by the clock in the background. After nearly three months of...
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February 24th, 2009 @ 9am
It's one of the more popular concepts to emerge from the promotion-concocting labs of Red Bank RiverCenter: the spring Dine Downtown promotion, going on every Tuesday and Wednesday evening in March at a select group of eateries around town. A...
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February 24th, 2009 @ 8am
Chubby's owner Mike Gilson pleaded his case, but got little sympathy from the governing body, including Council President Art Murphy, below. First, there was the October 2007 donnybrook outside Chubby's Waterside Café that took cops from several towns to quell...
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February 24th, 2009 @ 7am
Good one from the annals of amusing crime stories courtesy of the Asbury Park Press: SHREWSBURY — A Red Bank man walked into a department store, asked a cashier for a pen, then used it to write a holdup note,...
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February 23rd, 2009 @ 4pm
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 ...