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Monthly Archives: May 2009

Contractors working on improvements to a nearby intersection are using the borough-owned lot as a staging area. A wooden form for making concrete slabs was built at center, and a load of stone was dropped closer to the river. A...
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May 27th, 2009 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Fashionistas with creations in the show include, from left, juniors Megan Norton and Marcella Schepp of Little Silver and freshman Azharia Damian of Red Bank. Outre is in this Thursday when members of the Red Bank Regional High fashion club...
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May 27th, 2009 @ 6am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit offers a preview of something that's become a summertime staple: the return of Red Bank Street Life, the series of free outdoor mini-musicfests that take place at the sidewalks and storefronts each Saturday night....
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May 26th, 2009 @ 9am
Do you see green everywhere you go? As in money flying out the windows of poorly insulated buildings? Opportunities to improve energy efficiency at nearly every turn? Then it may be time for you to suit up. The Red Bank...
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May 26th, 2009 @ 8am
Photographer Bobbie Kingsley spotted this foursome clustered together opposite her Monmouth Street studio last week and "couldn't resist" taking their picture, she tells redbankgreen. The women asked that they be identified by the headline above. (Photo courtesy of Bobbie Kingsley)Email...
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May 26th, 2009 @ 6am
Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of May 8 to May 15, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Theft occurring at Broad St. and reported on 5-15-09. Owner reported that two former employees had...
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May 26th, 2009 @ 5am
Navy vet Rich Ardolino of West Long Branch cuts new names into the war veteran's monument at RBR. (Click to enlarge) An engraver was busy Friday adding names to a war monument on the grounds of Red Bank Regional High...
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May 23rd, 2009 @ 9am
Rumson police and the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office say they are still investigating a report of gunshots on Ridge Road early this morning, but don't have anyone in custody. Investigator Richard Incremona of the prosecutor's office tells redbankgreen that he...
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May 22nd, 2009 @ 11am
It's Memorial Day weekend, in case you haven't heard, and already the first tentative notes of the warm-weather music season are wafting out over the greater Red Bank oRBit. We're just a couple of weeks from the Red Bank Jazz...
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May 22nd, 2009 @ 10am
Police on the scene at 7 Ridge Road this morning. A SWAT team was mobilized and at least one Rumson home was evacuated this morning after reports of shots being fired in a residential neighborhood of Rumson. Authorities aren't yet...
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May 22nd, 2009 @ 9am
Pizza Fusion plans to take over the vacant space at left and the storefront now being vacated by Sole Solution, right. A Florida-based organic pizza chain that uses recycled Coke bottles in countertops and makes deliveries by hybrid car is...
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May 22nd, 2009 @ 8am
Red Bank police are investigating a report by two men who said they were robbed at gunpoint on Shrewsbury Avenue early Wednesday morning. The victims, borough residents 21 and 17 years old, told police that while walking on Shrewsbury between...
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May 21st, 2009 @ 6pm
Here's another video take on the announcement earlier this week of the Top Ten beaches in New Jersey. This one's by Bill Day, whose work we've posted before — most recently, a look at how the economy is affecting boat...
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May 21st, 2009 @ 12pm
If you were planning to see a live stage show this Memorial weekend, today's edition of Red Bank oRBit has the details on what we're not too timid to call three of the best shows we've seen all season. There's...
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May 21st, 2009 @ 12pm
URBAN: A PERFECT FIT FOR DOWNTOWN?
The future home of Urban Outfitters, as seen in late February. In signing Urban Outfitters to take over the ground floor of a prominent Red Bank address, building owner Keith Alliotts has finally bagged what many retailers have long said...
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May 21st, 2009 @ 11am
"The lovely park by the pond on Buttonwood in Fair Haven" is how reader S. Pilar described, correctly, the location of last week's Where. "Where the turtles sunbathe. Shhh. Don’t tell anyone." For readers unable to make out the image,...
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May 21st, 2009 @ 6am
Count Basie Theatre board member (and Basie Awards host) Siobhan Fallon-Hogan, Education Director Yvonne Lamb Scudiery, and CEO Numa Saisselin at April's announcement of this year's nominees. By Tom Chesek A Romeo, a Juliet and a thoroughly modern Millie were...
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May 21st, 2009 @ 6am
When the wraps come off, the retailer is expected to occupy all the street-level space formerly divided among four businesses. After months of speculation, it's official: Urban Outfitters is coming to Red Bank, delivering what retailers hope will be a...
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May 20th, 2009 @ 4pm
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, our always hyper-current arts and entertainment web companion, takes a little quantum leap into the future, with a look to the months ahead at Red Bank's own Two River Theater. The powers that be...
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May 20th, 2009 @ 12pm
Memorial Day weekend is nigh, which means it is time for the annual return of the palm trees to the sands at Chapel Beach Club in Sea Bright. A crew was out giving the club a tropical air under sparkling...
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May 20th, 2009 @ 8am
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 ...