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Monthly Archives: April 2013

Hundreds of food lovers turned out at the Oyster Point Hotel in Red Bank Thursday night for a fundraiser to help Kelly Ryan rebuild her Hurricane Sandy-damaged restaurant, Boondocks Fishery.Continue reading "BOONDOCKS LOBSTER SHACK WILL BE BACK"
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April 12th, 2013 @ 8am
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TINTON FALLS: SMOKE REPORTED AT RANNEY
[Update: The Asbury Park Press reports that an electrical fire damaged the roof of the GPA Building, which will be closed for repairs, but the school will open as normalContinue reading "TINTON FALLS: SMOKE REPORTED AT RANNEY"
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April 11th, 2013 @ 9pm
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Fair Haven Police Department. • 3/1/13 Det. Schneider took a report for Check Fraud reported from a Grange Walk resident. • 3/9/13Continue reading "FAIR HAVEN: DWI, HIT & RUN CHARGED"
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April 11th, 2013 @ 2pm
TRAFFIC JAM AT THREE-TOWN JUNCTION
Traffic was slowed to a crawl through the intersection of Newman Springs Road and Shrewsbury Avenue, at the junction of Red Bank, Shrewsbury an Tinton Falls, Thursday morning as crewsContinue reading "TRAFFIC JAM AT THREE-TOWN JUNCTION"
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April 11th, 2013 @ 1pm
The Red Bank Barbershop Quartet, which Mayor Pasquale Menna calls a borough “institution,” stopped in at Wednesday night’s council meeting to commemorate a declaration of Barbershop Quartet Week with severalContinue reading "RED BANK: A BIRTHDAY TREAT FOR HIZZONER"
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April 11th, 2013 @ 10am
SORRY MAN RETURNS, HAT AND BOOK IN HAND
Dave Bry, below, makes an appearance on the Green to read from his new collection of essays, ‘Public Apology,’ at River Road Books in Fair Haven on Thursday. (Photos byContinue reading "SORRY MAN RETURNS, HAT AND BOOK IN HAND"
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April 11th, 2013 @ 8am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Last week’s picture showed the gable end of a roof with blue tarp wrapped around… something. The ‘something’ is a Sunoco logo, and most of the 17 readers who wroteContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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April 11th, 2013 @ 6am
RED BANK: NEW RESTAURANT PLANNED
Plans filed with the borough call for the creation of a restaurant at the long-vacant former home of Fameabilia. A deal to sell the property is in the works. (ClickContinue reading "RED BANK: NEW RESTAURANT PLANNED"
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April 10th, 2013 @ 3pm
RED BANK: AFTER 83 YEARS, RASSAS TO CLOSE
Aaron Rassas outside his Red Bank auto dealership. Below, the original location, at 21 Mechanic Street, in 1934. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Born in the Great Depression,Continue reading "RED BANK: AFTER 83 YEARS, RASSAS TO CLOSE"
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April 10th, 2013 @ 2pm
By WIL FULTON Post-Sandy challenges continue to pile up for the ravaged beach community of Sea Bright, this time in the form of a school tax hike via the ShoreContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT FACES ‘UNBEARABLE’ TAX HIT"
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April 10th, 2013 @ 12pm
RED BANK: WHAT, NO PONY RIDES?
Coming soon, if Coffee Corral has its way: bocce and horseshoe courts and a fire pit. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Nobody can say Russ Crosson isn’t adaptable.Continue reading "RED BANK: WHAT, NO PONY RIDES?"
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April 10th, 2013 @ 11am
RED BANK: BIKE AND CAR COLLIDE
Red Bank police with the victim’s bike following the Wednesday morning accident. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A 51-year-old bicyclist was taken to a hospital after a collisionContinue reading "RED BANK: BIKE AND CAR COLLIDE"
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April 10th, 2013 @ 9am
SPRING 2013: GETTING SOME AIR
It was a get-outside kind of day on the Green Tuesday, and locals took advantage of  summerlike temperatures in the high 70s. A biker, above, got some air on WestContinue reading "SPRING 2013: GETTING SOME AIR"
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April 10th, 2013 @ 6am
SEA BRIGHT: SPRING ROARS ASHORE
With temperatures zooming into the high 70s for the first time in 2013, a dozen or so sunbathers were out on the sand at Anchorage Beach in storm-recovering Sea BrightContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: SPRING ROARS ASHORE"
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April 9th, 2013 @ 1pm
SHREWSBURY: PUPPY DUMPING SUSPECTED
Three of the four puppies captured Tuesday morning took temporary shelter in a drainage pipe. A fifth escaped. (Click to enlarge) Shrewsbury authorities are searching for the owners of fiveContinue reading "SHREWSBURY: PUPPY DUMPING SUSPECTED"
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April 9th, 2013 @ 12pm
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Little Silver Police Department. March 1– A resident from Sunnylands Ct. reported Harassment after receiving several unwanted phone calls by a knownContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: HOME AND CAR BURGLARIZED"
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April 9th, 2013 @ 12pm
From Rumson police, Tuesday morning: A single male actor attempted entry into a West River Road home during the afternoon of 4/8/13. The homeowner, who was inside at the timeContinue reading "RUMSON: ATTEMPTED BREAK-IN INVESTIGATED"
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April 9th, 2013 @ 10am
RED BANK ORK’S GOT PLENTY OF GERSHWIN
Grammy-nominated trumpeter Jon Faddis inaugurates a new series of “Talkin’ Jazz” events at the Count Basie tonight — then joins the Red Bank Jazz Orchestra this Sunday for a saluteContinue reading "RED BANK ORK’S GOT PLENTY OF GERSHWIN"
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April 9th, 2013 @ 9am
TEXT ALERT: TIME RUNNING OUT FOR METERS
The centralized pay stations replaced coin-operated meters in several downtown lots last summer, and could displace all remaining meters in a few months, the Press reports. (Click to enlarge) Tuesday’sContinue reading "TEXT ALERT: TIME RUNNING OUT FOR METERS"
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April 9th, 2013 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: SPRING 2013
A cherry blossom tree in bloom Saturday on Woodbine Avenue in Little Silver. (Click to enlarge)
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April 8th, 2013 @ 5pm
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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 ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
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.