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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Driven by rising salary and benefit costs, the school tax in Fair Haven would increase by about 2.6 cents per $100 of property valuation, according to a report in today's Asbury Park Press. A proposed $13.26 million spending plan introduced...
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March 17th, 2009 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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A heated tent awaits the throng of full-time and part-time Irishmen for today's St. Patrick's Day celebration at the Dublin House. Below, a view of the recently completed first-floor bar. (Click to enlarge) Patrons of today's St. Patrick's Day celebration...
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March 17th, 2009 @ 6am
John Curley in his former domain, Red Bank. Former Red Bank council member John Curley is gearing up for a second run for a seat on the Monmouth County Freeholder board, a post he narrowly fell short of after a...
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March 16th, 2009 @ 2pm
Unedited entries from the Red Bank Police Department activity log for the week of March 06, to March 13, 2009. Criminal Mischief occurring between 3-5-09 and 3-6-09 at Evergreen Terrace. Victim reported that unknown person(s) scratched windshield on parked vehicle....
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March 16th, 2009 @ 6am
We may be on the verge of spring, but at the Two River Theater Company, winter's got one more hand to play. Today's edition of oRBit has the details on Melissa Arctic, the springtime musical adapted from Shakespeare's classic The...
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March 16th, 2009 @ 6am
Passengers arriving at Red Bank in 2006. Service on the North Jersey Coast Line rail line that serves the Red Bank area was second-to-worst among seven New Jersey Transit lines for on-time arrivals, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The coast...
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March 16th, 2009 @ 6am
Students in teacher Jessica Sevillano's class last month. The program for 3- and 4-year-olds is housed at the middle school because of space considerations. The Red Bank school district will get enough money from the state next year to quadruple...
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March 13th, 2009 @ 8am
Today's Washington Post reports that the prolonged custody battle being pursued by David Goldman of Tinton Falls has become "a delicate diplomatic problem." In fact, the Post reports, in its lead paragraph: When Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...
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March 13th, 2009 @ 6am
Gov. Jon Corzine during his budget address to the Legislature on Tuesday. (Photo by Tim Larsen) Is there a New Jerseyan anywhere who savors the words "state budget?" In these economic times, the phrase is apt to turn even the...
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March 12th, 2009 @ 10am
Look familiar? If you think you can ID this week's shot, zap us an email, please. Last week, we showed you the door — or what appears to be some sort of portal in a brick wall. Three readers wrote...
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March 12th, 2009 @ 8am
Tinton Falls resident David Goldman's four-year battle to win the return of his now 8-year-old son, Sean, after an international parental kidnapping moved to the spotlight in Washington yesterday. The House of Representatives voted 418-0 in favor of a resolution,...
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March 12th, 2009 @ 6am
Breaking on the crest of today's news in Red Bank oRbit.... We've got an exclusive on a new series of summertime surf movie nights to be presented by Michael Boylan of Red Bank's own Stokaboka outdoors in the parking lot...
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March 12th, 2009 @ 6am
Dr. Howard Rubenstein at the nursing station of the new ground-floor facility, which opens its doors March 17. Howard Rubenstein remembers a childhood trip to a hospital emergency room in Rahway in the 1960s. He'd broken his arm and sat...
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March 11th, 2009 @ 11am
Hovnanian's head office, as seen from the foot of Maple Avenue. Red Bank-headquartered Hovnanian Enterprises, one of the nation's largest homebuilding companies, saw its losses accelerate in the most recent quarter. The company posted a net loss of $178.4. million...
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March 11th, 2009 @ 6am
A fine art exhibit of "Spraypaint SurrealiZm" and a concert featuring Israel's hottest reggae/klezmer/jam band? It's just another day of illuminating finds at Red Bank oRBit, redbankgreen's companion site for arts and entertainment. Today's edition takes you to McKay Imaging...
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March 11th, 2009 @ 6am
The borough-based Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey may feel the pinch. For the second time in recent months, the Red Bank Council has contracted services to Monmouth County in an effort to cut costs. The governing body last night...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 9am
Former Fair Haven furniture dealer William Neumann faces seven years in state prison after pleading guilty yesterday to defrauding customers out of $330,000 for goods that were never delivered, the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office says. Under the terms of a...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 9am
The dispatcher's desk at police headquarters won't be staffed nights and weekends, officials acknowledge. A late-entry proposal from Little Silver to take over police dispatching duties won approval by Fair Haven's council Monday night, the Asbury Park Press reports. From...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 6am
With the disclosure, Menna delivered on a pledge he made January 1, 2008. Without fanfare, Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna last night released two lists he'd promised to disclose fourteen months ago: the names residential landlords with the worst records...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 6am
Red Bank Police were searching Monday night for two suspects who posed as coin sellers in an afternoon holdup of a Shrewsbury Avenue jewelry store. According to police Capt. Steve McCarthy, one of the suspects — two black males in...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 5am
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EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...