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Monthly Archives: August 2013

Frank Lawrence addresses the audience of Sea Bright residents at the Holy Cross gym. Below, Sea Bright resident Louise Golda, left, with Marie Banich, whose mother lives in town. (PhotoContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT BRINGS ITS FUTURE INTO FOCUS"
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August 22nd, 2013 @ 1pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Shrewsbury Police Department for the period of August 9 to August 16, 2013. Report of Underage Drinking Party in the area of BordenContinue reading "SHREWSBURY: JUVENILES BUSTED FOR BOOZE"
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August 22nd, 2013 @ 11am
Six teams wrapped up the beach volleyball season in Sea Bright with a tournament Wednesday night. Though the league had half as many teams as last year, Chris Schoonhoven, 32,Continue reading "SEA BRIGHT: SPIKING SUMMER OF 2013"
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August 22nd, 2013 @ 9am
Turns out there’s a wealth of Rumson history behind the large exterior clockface we featured in last week’s Where Have I Seen This?
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August 22nd, 2013 @ 6am
A man who calls himself Black Ivory, right, with a ’67 Chevy Nova, one of his four classic muscle cars, at a car show hosted by Buona Sera restaurant inContinue reading "RED BANK: RATTLING AND ROLLING TO TOWN"
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August 21st, 2013 @ 1pm
Musicians with the Red Bank-based Rockit program for aspiring rock-n-rollers ages 8 to 18 rehearsed Tuesday for their biannual show at the Count Basie Theatre this Saturday. Featuring vocalists Emily Ainbinder,Continue reading "RED BANK: READY TO ROCKIT AT THE BASIE"
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August 21st, 2013 @ 11am
Walgreen’s proposes to build a 14,200-square-foot pharmacy with a drive-thru window on the former site of the Rassas auto dealership. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD With hearings onContinue reading "RED BANK: SPEED BUMP FOR WALGREEN’S?"
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August 21st, 2013 @ 8am
A former Red Bank-based lawyer faces up to 12 years in prison following his admission Tuesday that he stole a house in Locust from the estate of his late landlordContinue reading "LAWYER ADMITS STEALING HOUSE AND MORE"
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August 20th, 2013 @ 6pm
‘Jeffrey the Giraffe’ greets passersby on Chestnut Street in Red Bank Monday evening, above, and on a recent Sunday, below. His creator, Sergio Navarro, said that Jeffrey – a clothesContinue reading "RED BANK: STICKING HIS NECK OUT FOR LAFFS"
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August 20th, 2013 @ 12pm
Video from an intersection in Roselle Park, one of six locations cited by Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon as shortchanging motorists on yellow light time, resulting in more tickets tied to cameraContinue reading "IN THE NEWS: SEA GULL’S NEST, TRAFFIC CAMS"
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August 20th, 2013 @ 7am
Animal control officer Henry Perez holds the brown bat he caught in the Red Bank home of redbankgreen owners John Ward and Trish Russoniello Monday morning. The bat went off toContinue reading "ALL IN A FURRY, SCALY, SMELLY DAY’S WORK"
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August 20th, 2013 @ 6am
Red Bank Regional student Patricia Martinez, second from right above,with her family at the Two River Theater Sunday. Below, Chilean women talk about the evening’s reading. (Photo by Sarah Klepner.Continue reading "RED BANK: PLAY SERIES UNITES COMMUNITIES"
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August 20th, 2013 @ 5am
Red Bank businesses with store and office-fronts in need of sprucing up may be eligible for façade-improvement grants of up to $1,850 under a program that Mayor Pasquale Menna isContinue reading "RED BANK: FACADE MONEY NOW AVAILABLE"
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August 19th, 2013 @ 2pm
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of August 08 to August 15, 2013. This information is unedited. Theft occurring on 8-10-13Continue reading "RED BANK: NEW BRIDGE PARTS STOLEN"
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August 19th, 2013 @ 6am
Lunch Break executive director Gwen Love and the winners of an eight-team softball tournament held Sunday at Count Basie Fields to raise funds for the Red Bank community service organizationContinue reading "RED BANK: STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE"
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August 19th, 2013 @ 5am
A Red Bank man was taken for cash and a cellphone in a daylight scam attempt that turned into a strong-arm robbery in Shrewsbury Friday morning, police said. The unidentifiedContinue reading "SHREWSBURY: MUGGING REPORTED"
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August 16th, 2013 @ 6pm
RED BANK: MEDIUM HOT THAI JUST LIKE MOM’S
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A planned expansion of Muang Thai into an adjoining flower shop will provide direct access to the outdoor seating area, below, that now requires a walk around the corner. (PhotoContinue reading "RED BANK: MEDIUM HOT THAI JUST LIKE MOM’S"
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August 16th, 2013 @ 2pm
The bank’s five branches, including the one on Broad Street in Shrewsbury, above, will be rebranded as 1st Constitution. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Little more than aContinue reading "RUMSON-FAIR HAVEN BANK TO BE ACQUIRED"
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August 16th, 2013 @ 12pm
Jeanne-Marie Van Hemmen of Fair Haven rides home  from her law office on Bodman Place in Red Bank Thursday. She rides a Dutch bike called an ‘omafiets‘, which she said translatesContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: GRANNY-GEARING, DUTCH STYLE"
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August 16th, 2013 @ 11am
Former Sea Bright restaurateur Joanne Garelli leads a food truck in a cross-country reality TV race that plays out this season on the Food Network, starting Sunday.  (Photos by JohnContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: BREAKFAST AND LUNCH, TO GO"
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August 14th, 2013 @ 11am
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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 ...