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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Then-Mayor Ed McKenna in December, 2006. Former Red Bank Mayor Ed McKenna's car struck a pedestrian crossing East Front Street outside Riverview Medical Center last night, Red Bank Police report. According to Capt. Steve McCarthy, 49-year-old borough resident and hospital...
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 3pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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TO DIAMOND MAN, BROAD ST. STILL SHINES
Displaced from his longtime storefront, Alan Fisher plans to take over the space now occupied by Papyrus in the red brick structure visible over his left shoulder. Alan Fisher got his walking papers in late January. After 25 years operating...
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 11am
California Closets has vacated its location at 116 Broad Street in Red Bank, opposite Garmany. In keeping with its reputation for orderliness, California Closets has packed up and left town, and it seems there's not a stray hanger left behind....
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 10am
And now, a public service announcement from the video lab at the Red Bank Middle School... The video is the work of seventh-grade students of teacher Chris Ippolito, whose students have busted a couple of entertaining video raps in the...
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 8am
Red Bank crimes as reported from February 20 to February 27. This information, which is supplied by the police department, is unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring at Broad St. between 2-13-09 and 2-17-09. Victim reported that unknown person(s) punctured a hole...
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 5am
It's doubtful anyone had more fun in the snow than these two guys roughhousing on Monmouth Street in Red Bank Monday afternoon. OK, except for maybe the kids sledding on Tower Hill. Or maybe Euckie, the snow-crazy Bernese mountain dog...
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March 2nd, 2009 @ 5pm
A lone pedestrian makes her way down Waverly Place in Red Bank early Monday morning. (Click to enlarge) Winds were driving moderate if freezing temperatures down to the low teens shortly after 4a today, when redbankgreen took a quick spin...
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March 2nd, 2009 @ 6am
No surprise here, but just to make it official: The Borough of Fair Haven will suspend trash collection scheduled for Monday, March 2nd due to severe weather conditions. Trash will be collected from zones 1 and 2 on Thursday, March...
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March 2nd, 2009 @ 6am
Here are the announced school closings as of 10:50p Sunday: Little Silver Public Schools Middletown Township Public Schools Red Bank Catholic Red Bank Charter School Red Bank Public Schools Red Bank Regional High School Shore Regional High Shrewsbury Borough School...
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March 1st, 2009 @ 10pm
Here's an announcement made early Sunday afternoon by the Borough of Red Bank, issued in light of the National Weather Service forecast of a possible 5 to 9 inches of snow overnight: Garbage pickup suspended during snow emergency RED BANK—Borough...
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March 1st, 2009 @ 1pm
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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 ...