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Monthly Archives: September 2012

Red Bank and Shrewsbury honored the victims of the 9/11 attacks Tuesday night, particularly four of their own. (Video and photos by Stacie Fanelli.) In Riverside Gardens Park, the RedContinue reading "‘AS LONG AS WE’RE ALIVE’"
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September 12th, 2012 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Fair Haven Police Department. • 8/2/12 Ptl. Hostrup took a theft report from Surf Taxi out of Asbury Park, The driver reportsContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: ANOTHER CABBIE STIFFED"
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September 12th, 2012 @ 6am
THIRD GENERATION SETS UP SHOP IN MALL
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Sandi Vilacoba demonstrates a core-strengthening device in her new Pilates studio at the Fair Haven Shopping Center. Below, Vilacoba and her grandmother, Ofelia Schwarz, who owns the center. (Photos byContinue reading "THIRD GENERATION SETS UP SHOP IN MALL"
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September 11th, 2012 @ 12pm
STUDENT’S DEATH PROMPTS RASH OF RUMORS
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By JOHN T. WARD An 18-year-old senior at Red Bank Regional died suddenly at home early Monday morning, and authorities were racing to dispel rumors that she had been murdered,Continue reading "STUDENT’S DEATH PROMPTS RASH OF RUMORS"
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September 10th, 2012 @ 5pm
RED BANK GOP CANDIDATE NOW RUNS SOLO
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Council candidate Suzanne Viscomi, left, joined by state Senator Jen Beck, center, and Assemblywoman Mary Pat Angelini, answers questions during a presser in her driveway Monday. (Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "RED BANK GOP CANDIDATE NOW RUNS SOLO"
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September 10th, 2012 @ 2pm
LESSON ONE: WAIT OUT THE MONSOON
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Despite heavy rains for its first hour, Paddle the Paddle the Navesink Day found itself under sunny skies at Red Bank’s Maple Cove Saturday. Nearly 200 people tried kayaks and paddleContinue reading "LESSON ONE: WAIT OUT THE MONSOON"
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September 10th, 2012 @ 11am
A POT OF SAUCE IN ONE FAT TOMATO
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Natale Siclare, garden manager at Sickles Market in Little Silver, calls out the weight – 3.26 pounds – of the winner of the store’s annual biggest-tomato contest Saturday. The tomatoContinue reading "A POT OF SAUCE IN ONE FAT TOMATO"
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September 10th, 2012 @ 10am
Scenes from Sunday’s Street Fair in Red Bank. (Photos by Stacie Fanelli. Click to enlarge) By DANIELLE TEPPER Sunday’s balmy mid-70s temperatures brought locals out in droves to experience theContinue reading "STREET FAIR SIGNALS SUMMER’S END"
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September 10th, 2012 @ 8am
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of August 31 to September 7, 2012. This information is unedited. Theft occurring on 8-30-12Continue reading "RED BANK: THEFT, VANDALISM AND CONTEMPT"
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September 10th, 2012 @ 5am
PADDLE? YOU WERE GONNA GET WET ANYWAY
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A sudden downpour was a delight for these kids on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank Saturday morning. Meanwhile, down by the river, displays for Paddle the Navesink Day are setContinue reading "PADDLE? YOU WERE GONNA GET WET ANYWAY"
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September 8th, 2012 @ 10am
FBI LINKS HEIST SUSPECT TO ROBBERY STRING
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Blue Stove Antiques was robbed at gunpoint in early June by a man authorities have linked to armed robberies of New Jersey jewelry stores going back half a decade. (ClickContinue reading "FBI LINKS HEIST SUSPECT TO ROBBERY STRING"
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September 7th, 2012 @ 8pm
COLORFUL FUN FOR KIDS ON MONMOUTH
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Marissa Porskievies squirts a sampling of primary colors into a palette at her store’s “paint station.” (Photo by Stacie Fanelli. Click to enlarge.) By STACIE FANELLI Marissa Porskievies envisions her newContinue reading "COLORFUL FUN FOR KIDS ON MONMOUTH"
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September 7th, 2012 @ 2pm
A suspect in the armed robbery of a Fair Haven antiques shop in early June has been arrested, borough police reported Friday. From the FHPD:
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September 7th, 2012 @ 2pm
Sea Bright’s volunteer emergency services are pulling for one of their own following a boogie-boarding accident that left a first aider with a broken neck Thursday. Police Chief John SorrentinoContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT FIRST AIDER INJURED IN OCEAN"
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September 7th, 2012 @ 10am
[See update below] Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • Geoffrey Guido, age 54, from Leonard Avenue in Atlantic Highlands, NJ, arrested on AugustContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: FOUR CHARGED WITH DWI"
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September 7th, 2012 @ 10am
Hovnanian’s headquarters, on Maple Avenue in Red Bank. (File photo. Click to enlarge) After going one-for-22, Red Bank-based national homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises racked up a second consecutive net gain in itsContinue reading "HOV POSTS SECOND CONSECUTIVE PROFIT"
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September 7th, 2012 @ 7am
RED BANK PRE-K: ALL IN, IF NOT ALL IN TOWN
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Teacher Kelly Hogan greets a returning four-year-old in her new classroom at RBR Thursday. Below, students gets ready to draw their own portraits.  (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARDContinue reading "RED BANK PRE-K: ALL IN, IF NOT ALL IN TOWN"
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September 6th, 2012 @ 1pm
LITTLE SILVER: NAVIGATING BACK TO SCHOOL
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Parents and children crossed a bridge under reconstruction on Seven Bridges Road en route to Point Road School Thursday. A modular bridge will be installed to keep the route openContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: NAVIGATING BACK TO SCHOOL"
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September 6th, 2012 @ 9am
BROTHERS FIND THE LADY, AT TRTC’S ‘TOPDOG’
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Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks directs her own Pulitzer Prize winning play TOPDOG/ UNDERDOG — starring a pair of brothers as a pair of brothers — when Two River Theater Company opensContinue reading "BROTHERS FIND THE LADY, AT TRTC’S ‘TOPDOG’"
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September 6th, 2012 @ 7am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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Well, what it is isn’t hard to guess. But do you know Where?
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September 6th, 2012 @ 5am
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EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...