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Monthly Archives: August 2012

DOLPHINS: FAVORITE SPOT IN NAVESINK?
Pat McFadden of Little Silver grabbed this shot of dolphins visiting our beautiful Navesink River while he was out kayaking Thursday.
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August 31st, 2012 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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FAIR HAVEN’S KIDS CELEBRATE WALDO’S 25TH
More than 75 Fair Haven kids came out to play with Waldo in a month-long scavenger hunt that culminated in the beloved character’s birthday party Thursday. (Photos by Danielle Tepper. Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN’S KIDS CELEBRATE WALDO’S 25TH"
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August 31st, 2012 @ 3am
Two Brooklyn women were in the Monmouth County lockup Thursday after being busted for attempted credit fraud in Red Bank, police said.
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August 30th, 2012 @ 6pm
ALL SETTLED AFTER CAR FLIP
A black GMC Envoy overturned in Red Bank on Thursday at about 11:30 a.m. at the intersection of Madison and Branch avenues. Sgt. Mike Furlong was headed to Riverview MedicalContinue reading "ALL SETTLED AFTER CAR FLIP"
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August 30th, 2012 @ 1pm
The Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair continues for three more nights, and the weather forecast is pretty smactacular for the run. redbankgreen reporter Stacie Fanelli was there for opening night lastContinue reading "A DAZZLING WAY TO END A SUMMER"
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August 30th, 2012 @ 9am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
For a bench we’ve rarely seen anyone sitting on, the one featured in last week’s Where sure is well-recognized.
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August 30th, 2012 @ 6am
READY FOR ITS ANNUAL CLOSE-UP
A 1940 GMC/Sealand firetruck, formerly owned by the Fair Haven volunteer fire department and immaculately refurbished by Dale Bennett of Burdge’s Garage in Little Silver, returns to the Fair Haven Firemen’sContinue reading "READY FOR ITS ANNUAL CLOSE-UP"
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August 29th, 2012 @ 3pm
FILM BUFFS LIKE IT HOT
More than 50 people showed up in Red Bank’s Riverside Gardens park Tuesday night for Shore Flicks’ final installment of the summer, “Some Like it Hot” (with Marilyn Monroe, JackContinue reading "FILM BUFFS LIKE IT HOT"
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August 29th, 2012 @ 11am
COFFEE WITH A KICK
It’s not often that you see a horse on busy Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank. But when a business is called the Coffee Corral and the back forty is fencedContinue reading "COFFEE WITH A KICK"
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August 29th, 2012 @ 8am
The club recently installed an information display at the Broad Street entrance to the onetime Anthony Reckless homestead, and the rear and sides of the structure are being painted toContinue reading "WOMAN’S CLUB GETS A SPRUCING-UP"
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August 29th, 2012 @ 6am
GETTING DOWN TO WORK
An unidentified contractor gets close to his handiwork in the six-story addition being built at the Atrium at Navesink on Riverside Avenue in Red Bank Tuesday afternoon. (Click to enlarge)
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August 28th, 2012 @ 3pm
CLASSES KEEP IT FRESH AT LUNCH BREAK
Cooking instructor Roseanne Monroe shows her cooking class the dragon fruit she picked up at the market to use as an artistic element in a dish. (Photos by Stacie Fanelli.Continue reading "CLASSES KEEP IT FRESH AT LUNCH BREAK"
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August 28th, 2012 @ 1pm
ROWING INTO THEIR FUTURES
Akin Gaddis’s fellow Pool School participants look on as he works on basic rowing techniques using a simulator before heading into the Navesink for the real deal. (Photos by StacieContinue reading "ROWING INTO THEIR FUTURES"
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August 28th, 2012 @ 6am
SMITH FANS UNITE, INCHING TOWARD STASH
Fans waited in line as long as 10 hours with Kevin Smith books, films and artwork to be signed by their hero. Below, actor Jason Mewes, trailed by a videoContinue reading "SMITH FANS UNITE, INCHING TOWARD STASH"
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August 27th, 2012 @ 10am
ROCKING ‘N ROLLING ON THE RIVER
Aboard the Kemosabe, the Moroccan Sheepherders played a concert to an armada of fans bobbing in Blossom Cove on the Middletown side of the Navesink Saturday. (Photos by Stacie Fanelli.Continue reading "ROCKING ‘N ROLLING ON THE RIVER"
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August 27th, 2012 @ 9am
GETTING JAZZY FOR JOHNNY JAZZ
Red Bank’s jazz royalty gathered in an unassuming pocket park at Shrewsbury Avenue and Drs. James Parker Boulevard Friday night as the Al Wright Unit, above, the Chuck Lambert BandContinue reading "GETTING JAZZY FOR JOHNNY JAZZ"
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August 27th, 2012 @ 7am
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • Robert Dunn, age 21, from Tenth Street in Belford, NJ, arrested on August 21, 2012 by PatrolmanContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN POLICE BLOTTER"
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August 24th, 2012 @ 11am
FIREHOUSE COLORING BOOK TO LIGHT UP FAIR
Lisa Toohey at the writing desk in which she created her coloring book about the Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair, below.  (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD For Lisa TooheyContinue reading "FIREHOUSE COLORING BOOK TO LIGHT UP FAIR"
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August 24th, 2012 @ 9am
The owner of the store had sought a variance for an expansion and signage, but was derailed by a last-minute change in the noise ordinance.  (Click to enlarge) By JOHNContinue reading "AS EXPECTED, WELSH FARMS HEADS TO COURT"
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August 24th, 2012 @ 8am
MONMOUTH STREET SET TO REOPEN
Contractors prepare to lay down striping on the newly paved Monmouth Street in Red Bank shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday following a two-day closure of the stretch between Broad StreetContinue reading "MONMOUTH STREET SET TO REOPEN"
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August 23rd, 2012 @ 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 ...