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Monthly Archives: August 2009

The national debate on healthcare insurance flooded redbankgreen‘s comments section last week, providing an abundance of strong candidates for this week’s spotlight. The back-and-forth was spirited and civil, and perhapsContinue reading "TWO VIEWS ON ‘OBAMACARE’"
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August 24th, 2009 @ 12pm
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IN oRBit: PADDLING AROUND MANHATTAN
Today’s Red Bank oRBit brings you the data on some high-profile midweek concerts, including a benefit for the Count Basie Theatre restoration project starring Counting Crows — in addition to an oddball fundraising eventContinue reading "IN oRBit: PADDLING AROUND MANHATTAN"
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August 24th, 2009 @ 6am
THEFTS, VANDALISM DOMINATE BLOTTER
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Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of August 14, to August 21, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Theft occurring at E. Newman SpringsContinue reading "THEFTS, VANDALISM DOMINATE BLOTTER"
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August 24th, 2009 @ 6am
BAKED, NOT FRIED, MAKES FOR THE CRABBIEST
Red Bank’s Red restaurant came out on top at the Star-Ledger’s Munchmobile Crab Cake Festival and Shore Chef Cook-Off at Monmouth Park Sunday. Red’s crab cake was selected as theContinue reading "BAKED, NOT FRIED, MAKES FOR THE CRABBIEST"
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August 24th, 2009 @ 6am
Red Bank police have arrested three juveniles on charges they viciously attacked an 18-year-old borough man late Tuesday night. The suspects — borough residents aged 15, 16 and 17 —Continue reading "THREE ARRESTED IN WEST SIDE BEAT-DOWN"
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August 21st, 2009 @ 3pm
RED BANK RED BRICK
The plastic sheathing that had covered a scaffold on the east side of 2 Broad Street in Red Bank for months came down this week, exposing the structure’s original redContinue reading "RED BANK RED BRICK"
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August 21st, 2009 @ 7am
The site of Congressman Frank Pallone’s town hall meeting on national health insurance has been changed from Red Bank borough hall to the middle school, according to an announcement onContinue reading "PALLONE TOWN HALL MOVED FROM TOWN HALL"
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August 20th, 2009 @ 3pm
Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre, who’s running for Congress in 2010, has scheduled a public forum on President Obama’s national health insurance plan — to be held 90 minutes earlier,Continue reading "HALFACRE: BEAT THE RUSH ON ‘OBAMACARE’"
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August 20th, 2009 @ 2pm
A Red Bank man has been arrested and charged with conducting a spree of out-of-town burglaries as far away as Millburn, the Asbury Park Press reports. Thirty-year-old Miguel Dela CarreraContinue reading "RED BANKER CHARGED IN BREAK-IN SPREE"
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August 20th, 2009 @ 1pm
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
“They’re so lonesome, and I wonder why anyone would go sit out there,” Sandra Talarico said of the benches shown in last week’s Where.
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August 20th, 2009 @ 8am
IN oRBit: PEARLS, CURLS & FRANK TALK
Today’s Red Bank oRBit brings you an interview with Marybeth Maida — Red Bank resident, Borough Education Foundation vice president, mom and media professional — to say nothing of active, dynamic,Continue reading "IN oRBit: PEARLS, CURLS & FRANK TALK"
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August 20th, 2009 @ 8am
THE NEW LAWN ORNAMENT
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, ofContinue reading "THE NEW LAWN ORNAMENT"
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August 20th, 2009 @ 8am
MAN HOSPITALIZED AFTER WEST SIDE BEATING
An 18-year-old man was in stable condition with head trauma at Riverview Medical Center Wednesday afternoon following a beating he took from an unknown number of assailants Tuesday night, RedContinue reading "MAN HOSPITALIZED AFTER WEST SIDE BEATING"
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August 19th, 2009 @ 5pm
AN ETERNAL MESSAGE, IN CHALK
Sidewalk outside the Madison Commons apartments, South Street, Red Bank, 5p, Tuesday, August 18, 2009. (Click to enlarge)
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August 19th, 2009 @ 8am
BLOTTER: KNIFEPOINT ROBBERY REPORTED
Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of August 7 to August 14, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring at West FrontContinue reading "BLOTTER: KNIFEPOINT ROBBERY REPORTED"
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August 19th, 2009 @ 7am
IN oRBit: OUNCES OF PREVENTION
Today’s Red Bank oRBit has a preview of a benefit concert happening Friday night at the Two River Theater — a fundraiser for the Monmouth County-based nonprofit Prevention First and its slate of programsContinue reading "IN oRBit: OUNCES OF PREVENTION"
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August 19th, 2009 @ 7am
SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES DARROW CONTRACT
Administrator Annie Darrow, foreground, with Superintendent Laura Morana earlier this year. Red Bank’s Board of Ed last night approved a one-year contract with a four-percent salary bump for Administrator AnnieContinue reading "SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES DARROW CONTRACT"
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August 19th, 2009 @ 6am
HALFACRE HALF-OK WITH STIMULUS MONEY
Mayor Mike Halfacre in 2008. With his town having  just landed a whopping $477,000 in federal stimulus money, one might think that Fair Haven mayor and congressional aspirant Mike HalfacreContinue reading "HALFACRE HALF-OK WITH STIMULUS MONEY"
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August 18th, 2009 @ 2pm
MANSION-TO-OFFICE PLAN OK’D IN SQUEAKER
New owner Charlie McCague says he spent $50,000 to restore the slate-and-copper roof of the structure and will preserve the clapboard exterior and interior layout. After a vote that sharplyContinue reading "MANSION-TO-OFFICE PLAN OK’D IN SQUEAKER"
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August 18th, 2009 @ 8am
BUMPER TO BUMPER ON MADISON
Mary Ann Hance of Madison Avenue with her damaged car Tuesday morning. Red Bank police are investigating hit-and-run incidents in which two cars parked about 75 yards apart on MadisonContinue reading "BUMPER TO BUMPER ON MADISON"
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August 18th, 2009 @ 8am
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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 ...