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Monthly Archives: July 2009

This week’s spotlight comment is by ‘Ditch Waverly.’ Readers of redbankgreen comments may be familiar with Ditch’s occasional postings. Quite evidently written by a resident of Waverly Place in RedContinue reading "WATCHING THE WAVERLY GRAND PRIX"
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July 27th, 2009 @ 12pm
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GRAFFITI NOT ALWAYS A SIGN OF GANGS
Detective Joey Fields, lower right, with Mayor Pasquale Menna to his left and state Senator Jennifer Beck at center, addresses an audience on the topic of gangs at the FrankContinue reading "GRAFFITI NOT ALWAYS A SIGN OF GANGS"
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July 27th, 2009 @ 11am
This installment of our regular Red Bank crime wrapup includes two weeks of police reports instead of the usual one. As always, the information below was supplied by the RedContinue reading "TWO WEEKS FROM THE POLICE LOGS"
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July 27th, 2009 @ 7am
OUTLOOK NOT AS COLORFUL AS THIS
Storms that wreaked havoc elsewhere in New Jersey (and left one man dead from a lightning strike in Newark) went easy on the Red Bank area Sunday night, leaving thisContinue reading "OUTLOOK NOT AS COLORFUL AS THIS"
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July 27th, 2009 @ 6am
Red Bank police arrested two men for having a loaded pistol and on other charges after a brief chase Wednesday. According to police spokesman Capt. Steve McCarthy, who was involvedContinue reading "COPS NAB TWO WITH LOADED GUN"
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July 24th, 2009 @ 2pm
ATTENTION YARD-SALE LOVERS
Are you a yard sale junkie? Do you know someone who is? Are you planning a yard sale, or to go out on a garage-sale shopping spree? redbankgreen would loveContinue reading "ATTENTION YARD-SALE LOVERS"
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July 24th, 2009 @ 9am
OUT ON OUR BEAUTIFUL RIVER
Scenes from an outting earlier this week as part of the Navesink Marine Heritage Association’s River Rangers program offered  through Red Bank’s parks & rec department. (Click to enlarge) TheContinue reading "OUT ON OUR BEAUTIFUL RIVER"
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July 24th, 2009 @ 9am
OUT ON THE STREETS OF BARGAIN BOROUGH
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Scenes from the 2008 Red Bank Sidewalk Sale. This year’s runs today through Sunday. (Click to enlarge) The 55th annual edition of the Red Bank Sidewalk Sale opens today. TheContinue reading "OUT ON THE STREETS OF BARGAIN BOROUGH"
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July 24th, 2009 @ 7am
PRIMARY SCHOOL ‘WALK ZONE’ EXPANDED
Students arriving by foot, bike and bus at the primary school last September. It seems borderline cruel to talk about this now, kids, but ‘back-to-school’ will have a different feelContinue reading "PRIMARY SCHOOL ‘WALK ZONE’ EXPANDED"
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July 24th, 2009 @ 7am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Who knew the answer to last week’s puzzler?
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July 23rd, 2009 @ 9am
INTERSECTION FIX BEHIND SCHEDULE
Workers getting ready to install a light stanchion at Maple Avenue and West Front Street earlier this week. The long-awaited reconfiguration of traffic lights at two problematic intersections in RedContinue reading "INTERSECTION FIX BEHIND SCHEDULE"
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July 23rd, 2009 @ 7am
IN oRBit: SURFING SHAKESPEARE
Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit advances a bit of midsummer mayhem coming up at Two River Theater — an adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream that’s so (literally) outside the boxContinue reading "IN oRBit: SURFING SHAKESPEARE"
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July 23rd, 2009 @ 6am
FRANK TALK ON GANGS PLANNED
Borough and state officials are planning a public discussion on the presence of gangs in Red Bank for this Saturday morning. The event is being organized by 12th-district state Sen.Continue reading "FRANK TALK ON GANGS PLANNED"
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July 22nd, 2009 @ 10am
IN oRBit: COLBERT, KIRK & YOU CAN TOO
Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit drops the details on the upcoming appearance of  Stephen Colbert here in the borough — not the TV pundit character “Stephen Colbert,” but the real StephenContinue reading "IN oRBit: COLBERT, KIRK & YOU CAN TOO"
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July 22nd, 2009 @ 10am
MAN BITES TUBE STEAK
In honor of National Hot Dog Month, redbankgreen tips its trucker’s cap today to the men and women of the The Green who work the roller grills and ‘dirty water’Continue reading "MAN BITES TUBE STEAK"
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July 22nd, 2009 @ 9am
ON TAP: MASTER PLAN CHANGES
The Fixx, on West Front Street, is the only licensed nightclub in Red Bank. Officials plan to address the fuzzy distinctions between ‘lounge’ and ‘nightclub’ in borough ordinances. A raftContinue reading "ON TAP: MASTER PLAN CHANGES"
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July 22nd, 2009 @ 7am
IN oRBit: HITCHIN’ A RIDE WITH POKEY
So who is Pokey LaFarge? Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit endeavors to explain, to the degree that the country-blues-ragtime-roots-Americana performer can be explained. Described as “a twentysomething acoustic warrior” and “a hoboContinue reading "IN oRBit: HITCHIN’ ...
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July 21st, 2009 @ 3pm
WHERE’D THAT BRIDGE COME FROM?
Yes, again. Westbound this time. (Photo courtesy of Gregg Helfman) This one’s definitely in the dog-bites-man category. But hey, it’s a slow news day, and as long as we’re onContinue reading "WHERE’D THAT BRIDGE COME FROM?"
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July 21st, 2009 @ 10am
Coming soon, maybe, to the still-vacant Union Street Village: plastic surgeons. Unable to get even a nibble for its retail space, the owner of Union Street Village last night sought,Continue reading "CAN DOCTORS SAVE THIS BUILDING?"
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July 21st, 2009 @ 6am
RETHINKING THE FENG SHUI
A furniture delivery truck nearly got stuck beneath the railroad trestle over West Front Street near Hubbards Bridge in Red Bank this morning. The driver backed the vehicle out, turnedContinue reading "RETHINKING THE FENG SHUI"
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July 20th, 2009 @ 10am
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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 ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
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.