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Monthly Archives: June 2011

PAPERWORK PUTS FAIR HAVEN PLANS ON HOLD
The River Road west streetscape is holding up a line of other projects in the borough. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Mike Halfacre, Fair Haven’sContinue reading "PAPERWORK PUTS FAIR HAVEN PLANS ON HOLD"
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June 30th, 2011 @ 2pm
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AUTOPSY: MURDER VICTIM WAS ASPHYXIATED
Viridiana Beltran-Gomez was last seen at her job at Siena Grill before her body was found last week. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI A missingContinue reading "AUTOPSY: MURDER VICTIM WAS ASPHYXIATED"
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June 30th, 2011 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN TO RETAIN ZONING BOARD
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Fair Haven’s zoning board will stay intact, despite a councilman’s call to disband the body last month. Following lengthy discussions with council, planning and zoning board members,Continue reading "FAIR HAVEN TO RETAIN ZONING BOARD"
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June 30th, 2011 @ 9am
VANDALS HIT MULTIPLE MIDDLETOWN PARKS
Concrete steps at Tindall Park in Middletown were among targets of vandalism the last week, police said. (Photo courtesy of Middletown police; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Joy ridesContinue reading "VANDALS HIT MULTIPLE MIDDLETOWN PARKS"
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June 30th, 2011 @ 9am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Ok, who knows this one? Drop us an email if you think you do, with the words ‘Where Have I Seen This?’ in the subject line, please.
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June 30th, 2011 @ 8am
RED BANK CFO TAKES A BETTER OFFER
Frank Mason, seen here with borough Engineer Christine Ballard, will become CFO in Montclair. (Click to enlarge) The keeper of Red Bank’s checkbook is leaving the borough government to takeContinue reading "RED BANK CFO TAKES A BETTER OFFER"
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June 30th, 2011 @ 6am
Well, in this case, the authorities were called… but only after a homeowner found himself in a tussle with an alleged car burglar. Middletown police report that they arrested aContinue reading "HOMEOWNER GRABS ALLEGED CAR BURGLAR"
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June 29th, 2011 @ 12pm
The police activity reports below were provided by the Middletown Township Police Department and are unedited. • On June 27, 2011 at approximately 7:30 pm Patrolman Richard Fulham was onContinue reading "M’TOWN: BEGGING FOR SMOKES… AT A GYM?"
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June 29th, 2011 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER BRACES FOR DETOUR JAMS
Orange you glad they alerted you? (Click to enlarge) Already a nettlesome fact of life for local commuters, travel between Shrewsbury and Little Silver is about to get downright ugly.Continue reading "LITTLE SILVER BRACES FOR DETOUR JAMS"
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June 29th, 2011 @ 9am
KABOOM CLOSING IN ON FUNDRAISING GOAL
Firecracker says the Kaboom Committee is half-way to its $275,000 funding goal. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI In a big change from this time aContinue reading "KABOOM CLOSING IN ON FUNDRAISING GOAL"
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June 29th, 2011 @ 7am
SPILL PROMPTS LITTLE SILVER DETOURS
Workers on Prospect Avenue in Little Silver spread absorbent material to soak up hydraulic oil spilled earlier this morning. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI AContinue reading "SPILL PROMPTS LITTLE SILVER DETOURS"
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June 28th, 2011 @ 12pm
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Responding to long-standing concerns from Fair Haven’s first responders about emergency dispatch service, Monmouth County officials have put in place short- and long-term measures to fix lagContinue reading "DISPATCH FIXES PLANNED FOR FAIR HAVEN"
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June 28th, 2011 @ 11am
The police activity reports below were provided by the Middletown Township Police Department and are unedited. • On June 20, 2011 at approximately 11:50 am Patrolman Thomas Meckier was onContinue reading "DRUGS AND BOOZE FILL MIDDLETOWN COP LOG"
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June 28th, 2011 @ 9am
Check out this brisk little intro to the world of Red Bank’s Cliff Galbraith, creator of Rat Bastard comic books. The video is from a series of profiles called CreateContinue reading "RED BANK ARTIST NURTURES A RAT"
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June 28th, 2011 @ 8am
HALL RESTORATION GETS A BIG BOOST
A cash infusion means Bicentennial Hall should be ready for a 2012 opening. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Restoration work on Fair Haven’s Bicentennial Hall,Continue reading "HALL RESTORATION GETS A BIG BOOST"
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June 28th, 2011 @ 7am
A Red Bank man who worked as an organist for a Shrewsbury church faces up to five years in jail for his admission that he sexually assaulted a minor, accordingContinue reading "ORGANIST ADMITS TO CHILD-SEX CHARGE"
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June 27th, 2011 @ 5pm
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI A Middletown Township Committee candidate in this year’s election will resign after being charged with possession of crack cocaine in a Holmdel motel last weekend, the town’sContinue reading "CANDIDATE TO RESIGN AFTER DRUG BUST"
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June 27th, 2011 @ 10am
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI An Oklahoma man who was arrested for hiding outside a Port Monmouth home with an explosive device last year committed suicide while being held in Monmouth CountyContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN-CHARGED INMATE HANGS SELF"
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June 27th, 2011 @ 10am
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Two local teenagers were arrested in Red Bank Thursday after being caught spray-painting a downtown building, police said. Thomas Ley, 18, of Rumson, was arrested and chargedContinue reading "TEENS BUSTED FOR ROOFTOP GRAFFITI"
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June 27th, 2011 @ 8am
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of June 20 to June 24, 2011. This information is unedited. Theft reported on 6-20-11Continue reading "BLOTTER: VANDALISM AT RIVERSIDE GARDENS"
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June 27th, 2011 @ 7am
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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 ...