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Monthly Archives: December 2010
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December 31st, 2010 @ 11pm
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TEMPORARY ROOF FIX DONE AT SUPERMARKET
A&P in Little Silver reopened early Friday afternoon after the building’s roof partially collapsed this week. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The A&P supermarket inContinue reading "TEMPORARY ROOF FIX DONE AT SUPERMARKET"
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December 31st, 2010 @ 2pm
PRE-CHRISTMAS ACCIDENT KILLED WOMAN
The accident occurred on River Road in front of Acme. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI An Eatontown woman died after being struck by a vehicleContinue reading "PRE-CHRISTMAS ACCIDENT KILLED WOMAN"
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December 31st, 2010 @ 8am
STELLA GRANDE
Stella, a golden retriever “from New Hampshire,” her owner notes, rests her chin on a snowbank outside the Starbucks on Broad Street in Red Bank Thursday morning. (Click to enlarge)
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December 30th, 2010 @ 12pm
DOUBLE DUNK TO START ’11
One of two ocean plunges will take place at the Mad Hatter in Sea Bright Saturday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI So you’re planning yourContinue reading "DOUBLE DUNK TO START ’11"
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December 30th, 2010 @ 9am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
A somewhat eerie facade, a traffic cone on a pole, footprints in the snow crossing police tape… Oh yeah, we’ve got ourselves the final Where Have I Seen This? ofContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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December 30th, 2010 @ 8am
SINGLE-LANE REOPENING PLANNED
A towrig pulls a stranded car from the snow while utility crews work on the opposite side of West Front Street at 3:30p Wednesday. (Click to enlarge) A utility poleContinue reading "SINGLE-LANE REOPENING PLANNED"
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December 29th, 2010 @ 4pm
ROOF CRACK FORCES SUPERMARKET CLOSURE
A crack in the roof forced the closure of the A&P supermarket in Little Silver Wednesday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The A&P in LittleContinue reading "ROOF CRACK FORCES SUPERMARKET CLOSURE"
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December 29th, 2010 @ 1pm
ON CONSIGNMENT: DOUBLETAKE ON BROAD
“My business is recession-proof,” says Doubletake owner Marci Kessler. (Click to enlarge) As a handful of employees raced about earlier this month to set up for the next day’s openingContinue reading "ON CONSIGNMENT: DOUBLETAKE ON BROAD"
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December 29th, 2010 @ 10am
ON CONSIGNMENT: OWNER GOES FOR SECONDS
Ann Marie Elia arranges the stock at her Fair Haven store. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI When Ann Marie Elia opened her first business, AllContinue reading "ON CONSIGNMENT: OWNER GOES FOR SECONDS"
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December 29th, 2010 @ 9am
ON CONSIGNMENT: RE-ENTRY JOBS
U Gallery will feature luxury goods on consignment and works by brain-injured artists. (Click to enlarge) One of the stores opening as part of a surge in new consignment shopsContinue reading "ON CONSIGNMENT: RE-ENTRY JOBS"
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December 29th, 2010 @ 9am
ON CONSIGNMENT: GOING HIPPER
Kathie Slavin took over The Attic at the beginning of the month and is rebranding the consignment shop In-Style Vintage. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPIContinue reading "ON CONSIGNMENT: GOING HIPPER"
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December 29th, 2010 @ 9am
RUMSON DONE AS SEA BRIGHT DIGS OUT
A snow plow on East River Road Monday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI While other towns continue trying to dig out from massive amounts ofContinue reading "RUMSON DONE AS SEA BRIGHT DIGS OUT"
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December 29th, 2010 @ 9am
DETOUR EXPECTED FOR A.M. DRIVE TIME
Westbound traffic was diverted from West Front Street onto Broad Street Tuesday evening, above, jamming up downtown Red Bank. Below, eastbound vehicles lined up on Monmouth Street. (Click to enlarge)Continue reading "DETOUR EXPECTED FOR A.M. DRIVE TIME"
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December 28th, 2010 @ 8pm
On Monday, redbankgreen brought you photos taken on a walking tour of Red Bank shortly after the end of the paralyzing blizzard that walloped parts of the northeastern United StatesContinue reading "RED BANK SPUTTERS BACK TO A START"
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December 28th, 2010 @ 1pm
PLOW STUCK ON RIVER STREET 24+ HOURS
Privately owned vehicles stranded in the weekend snowstorm aren’t the only ones hampering the street-clearing effort in Red Bank, it turns out. redbankgreen came across this municipal truck stuck inContinue reading "PLOW STUCK ON RIVER STREET 24+ HOURS"
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December 28th, 2010 @ 11am
POLE FIX JAMS RED BANK TRAFFIC
Vehicles backed up along Riverside Avenue earlier today. Below, utility crews working on West Front Street, a portion of which is closed to traffic. (Click to enlarge) Snow-clogged streets andContinue reading "POLE FIX JAMS RED BANK TRAFFIC"
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December 28th, 2010 @ 10am
As the wind and snow relented Monday morning, plows, shovels and snowblowers got heavy use in Fair Haven and Rumson. redbankgreen‘s Dustin Racioppi trudged through the streets to snap shotsContinue reading "AFTER THE STORM IN FAIR HAVEN & RUMSON"
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December 28th, 2010 @ 7am
JUST BEING NEIGHBORLY!
Pete DeFazio gives neighbor Jeff Merton a snow shower during the post-blizzard cleanup on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Monday morning.
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December 28th, 2010 @ 6am
In the aftermath of the blizzard, redbankgreen took a stroll around Red Bank Monday morning. Everywhere, it seemed, were stranded cars, shovel-toters, pre-plowed streets and balletic wisps of snow dancingContinue reading "A WALK AROUND RED BANK"
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December 27th, 2010 @ 4pm
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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 ...