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Monthly Archives: January 2012

A parking gate in Red Bank goes a little nutty Tuesday morning. The gate is at a 23-car parking lot at the corner of Hudson Avenue and Linden Place that’sContinue reading "ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK"
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January 31st, 2012 @ 11am
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CHURN CLAIMS TWO DOWNTOWN STORES
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Nobody home at Prima’s Home Café on Tuesday morning. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The start of each New Year brings another round of retail culling to downtownContinue reading "CHURN CLAIMS TWO DOWNTOWN STORES"
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January 31st, 2012 @ 10am
Two classrooms would be added to the Point Road School to accommodate the program. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD After almost four years of study and discussion, aContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER TO VOTE ON ALL-DAY-K FUNDS"
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January 31st, 2012 @ 7am
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • Brian Brehm, age 36, from Walnut Street in Frostburg, MD, arrested on January 28, 2012 by PatrolmanContinue reading "FROM THE MIDDLETOWN POLICE BLOTTER"
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January 30th, 2012 @ 2pm
WILD BOAR ON THE LOOSE IN RUMSON
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Scene of the crime: Murray MacGregor’s, above, and the pilfered Mr. Oinkers, below. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Call it the case of the pilfered pig. Sometime lastContinue reading "WILD BOAR ON THE LOOSE IN RUMSON"
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January 30th, 2012 @ 12pm
The Oceanic Bridge as seen from Victory Park in Rumson earlier this month. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Fingers crossed, but so far, the repair job on theContinue reading "COUNTY: OCEANIC REPAIRS ON SCHEDULE"
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January 30th, 2012 @ 9am
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of January 20 to January 27, 2012. This information is unedited. Theft occurring between 1-16-12Continue reading "PEDESTRIAN REPORTS GUNPOINT ROBBERY"
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January 30th, 2012 @ 7am
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • Alexander Haegney, age 18, from Clay Court in Navesink, NJ, arrested on January 24, 2012 by PatrolmanContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN ARREST REPORTS"
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January 30th, 2012 @ 6am
An Ocean County resident is facing drunken driving and other charges, as well as possible deportation, following a three-vehicle crash that seriously injured another man in Middletown Tuesday night, theContinue reading "PRESS: DWI CHARGED IN MIDDLETOWN CRASH"
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January 28th, 2012 @ 8am
SEA BRIGHT MAYOR DIVES INTO WORK
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Mayor Dina Long up to her ankles after a rainstorm flooded the street outside her home earlier this month. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Right off the bat,Continue reading "SEA BRIGHT MAYOR DIVES INTO WORK"
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January 27th, 2012 @ 2pm
A ‘JITNEY’ TO THE BIG TIME FOR TRTC
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Ruben Santiago-Hudson announces JITNEY at the Two River Theater last spring, as Greg Brown and Rona Figueroa (of TRTC’s production of JACQUES BREL) look on. (Click to enlarge) By TOMContinue reading "A ‘JITNEY’ TO THE BIG TIME FOR TRTC"
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January 27th, 2012 @ 7am
By JOHN T. WARD After more than 350 years of rather quiet contentment in Little Silver, Sickles Market is taking it to the old country. The market, whose roots onContinue reading "SICKLES PLANS FOODIE JUNKET TO SICILY"
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January 27th, 2012 @ 6am
ON MONMOUTH: SUBS, SNIPS AND CLIPS
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The Red Bank Sub Shop and House of Fades barbershop are setting up side-by-side at 8 Monmouth Street. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Time for a couple ofContinue reading "ON MONMOUTH: SUBS, SNIPS AND CLIPS"
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January 26th, 2012 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN TO DIM ‘RUNWAY’ WATTAGE
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Alternating lamps along the River Road streetscape will be shut off after 11 p.m., officials say. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna says itContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN TO DIM ‘RUNWAY’ WATTAGE"
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January 26th, 2012 @ 8am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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It floats!
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January 26th, 2012 @ 8am
BIDDING THE MAYOR FAREWELL
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It’s official, apparently, if the sign outside Fair Haven Borough Hall has the weight of officialdom. The expected resignation of Mike Halfacre as the borough’s mayor, that is, to takeContinue reading "BIDDING THE MAYOR FAREWELL"
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January 25th, 2012 @ 10am
Three motorists were injured, and one was airlifted to a hospital, following a head-on collision that closed a stretch of Navesink River Road in Middletown Tuesday night, according to newsContinue reading "THREE INJURED IN MIDDLETOWN HEAD-ON"
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January 25th, 2012 @ 7am
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • Thomas Burgos, age 24, from Piave Avenue in Staten Island, NY, arrested on January 20, 2012 byContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN POLICE BLOTTER"
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January 24th, 2012 @ 12pm
WOMAN BUSTED FOR HEROIN IN HER BRA
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Little Silver police say a shoplifting suspect’s cups runneth over Sunday afternoon when they found her to be wearing a bra filled with suspected heroin packets, they reported Tuesday morning.Continue reading "WOMAN BUSTED FOR HEROIN IN HER BRA"
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January 24th, 2012 @ 11am
PRESS: HALFACRE NOW HAS CHRISTIE NOD
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The mayor, seen below in his biking gear, was a no-show Monday night and his nameplate sat on a shelf behind the council dais. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading "PRESS: HALFACRE NOW HAS CHRISTIE NOD"
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January 23rd, 2012 @ 11pm
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FALL COLORS IN RED BANK
redbankgreen's Partyline captures peaking fall foliage on a Red Bank street corner.
FALL AT THE COURTS OF RED BANK
On the Partyline: stunning foliage at Red Bank's "medieval office park."
WALK FOR DEMOCRACY
The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center led a "Walk for Democracy" Sunday from Riverside Gardens Park to the cultral center on Drs. James Park ...
Go big or go home
On the redbankgreen Partyline: Gourd display at Lighthouse on its penultimate night of the season.
MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
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