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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Borough officials have an ordinance on tonight's agenda to limit so-called 'college nights' like the one that resulted in last week's violence. Three separate incidents of violence involving patrons of Chubby's Waterside Café had Red Bank police scrambling early last...
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February 23rd, 2009 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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The spending plan funds a primary and and a middle school, and kicks in support for the Red Bank Charter School. By JUDY DeHAVEN Though the final funding amounts are not yet in from the state, Red Bank Schools Superintendent...
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February 23rd, 2009 @ 7am
Antonio Godinho, an official with the Residential Carpenters Local 119 in Edison, hands out fliers in front of Clearview Cinemas on White Street Saturday objecting to what he says is the hiring of out-of-state carpenters by Clearview on a project...
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February 23rd, 2009 @ 6am
Where do you go to track the movements of your favorite superstar poets? Why, Red Bank oRBit, natch. Today on our sib site for arts and entertainment info, you'll find a mention of Maya Angelou and her lecture appearance this...
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February 23rd, 2009 @ 6am
Emergency workers take crash victim Michael Maxted to a waiting ambulance. A 22-year-old Red Bank man was injured late Friday afternoon when an SUV crashed through the facade of the Cluck U Chicken fast food business on Water Street. Michael...
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February 20th, 2009 @ 5pm
Today's Asbury Park Press has the obituary for Vincent DiMicelli, 56, who was killed in the Wednesday night crash involving three cars on Newman Springs Road, on the Red Bank-Tinton Falls border. Here's the obit: Vincent Thomas DiMicelli, of Little...
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February 20th, 2009 @ 7am
The planning board advanced the idea of a high-density transit village to be built near the Red Bank rail station. Below, homeowner Neil Spencer reviews a zone map with engineer Catherine Britell while his wife, Wendy, addresses the board. (Click...
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February 19th, 2009 @ 10am
An investigator photographs an overturned car involved in Wednesday night's fatal crash. A Little Silver man died in last night's three-car crash on Newman Springs Road, according to a report by the Asbury Park Press. Fifty-six-year-old Vincent Dimicelli was pronounced...
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February 19th, 2009 @ 9am
How about it, folks? If you think you know where the above photo was taken, zap us an email, please. We had a light turnout for last week's Where Have I Seen This? Was that because the answer was so...
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February 19th, 2009 @ 6am
A sheet covers the body of a victim outside the Salvation Army building. A horrific multi-car accident on Newman Springs Road left one person dead and an unknown number of others injured Wednesday evening. Information about the person killed and...
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February 18th, 2009 @ 11pm
Following up on last week's redbankgreen feature about Pim Van Hemmen and his Do1Thing.org, effort, we thought readers might be interested in this Ledger Live video from yesterday. In addition to a short report on the Do1Thing event at Covenant...
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February 18th, 2009 @ 11am
From top, as Elizabeth Schwartz tries to cross Broad Street, both a northbound black Jeep and a southbound white pickup truck continue through the crosswalk. The silver pickup was waiting to turn when she entered the crosswalk. (Click to enlarge)...
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February 18th, 2009 @ 7am
By SUE MORGAN They're a little large, and tend to crowd the sidewalk. Mayor Mike Halfacre says he lost a "$1.79 cup of coffee" when he accidentally collided with one. The six vivid yellow pedestrian-crossing signs recently installed on Fair...
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February 18th, 2009 @ 6am
William Patterson, who led the Red Bank Police Department as chief, has died, according to an obituary in today's Asbury Park Press. From the Press: William F. Patterson, Jr., age 85, passed away on Monday, February 16, 2009 at Riverview...
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February 18th, 2009 @ 5am
Government watchdog Steve Fitzpatrick says public inattention could lead to more traffic and parking problems in Red Bank. A recommendation to let developers build 40 units where they're now limited to 16 is one of several that Red Bank residents...
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February 17th, 2009 @ 9am
Today in Red Bank oRBit, we've got something special for your post-Valentine's hangover: our own interview with Hollywood legend Robert Wagner, known for everything from the original Titanic to TV's Hart to Hart, and even the Austin Powers franchise. Wagner...
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February 17th, 2009 @ 5am
Today's Asbury Park Press reports that a grand jury in Freehold has indicted a Red Bank man for punching his brother in the face and leaving him with life-threatening injuries during a Super Bowl party in Middletown last year. James...
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February 17th, 2009 @ 5am
A Tinton Falls man whose efforts to reclaim his son from a Brazilian man have garnered growing international attention was back home late last week after a visit with the boy in Brasilia. It was David Goldman's first visit with...
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February 16th, 2009 @ 8am
Entries from the desk log at the Red Bank Police Department for the week of February 6 to 13. The information appears here unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring on 2-6-09 at W. Bergen Place. Victim reported that unknown subject(s) spray-painted graffiti...
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February 16th, 2009 @ 5am
How about a paper explaining that thing on His head? Download that dictionary app into your iPods, Brucies. The second installment of "Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium" is coming to Monmouth University in September. If it's anything like the...
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February 13th, 2009 @ 11am
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 ...