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Monthly Archives: October 2013

A “capias warrant” for the arrest of Sean Di Somma was issued and is still in effect, a spokesman for the city of Dallas told redbankgreen late Friday afternoon, addingContinue reading "DALLAS SAYS DI SOMMA IS WARRANT SUBJECT"
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October 25th, 2013 @ 7pm
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RED BANK: DEMS GO TO AUDIO ON DI SOMMA
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Sean Di Somma at the NAACP candidates’ forum Thursday night. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Keeping alive a controversy that ignited Thursday, the head of Monmouth County’s DemocraticContinue reading "RED BANK: DEMS GO TO AUDIO ON DI SOMMA"
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October 25th, 2013 @ 4pm
RED BANK: ZIPPRICH OWNS ‘ASTROTURF’ URL
Councilman Ed Zipprich, seen at the Red Bank NAACP candidates’ forum at Calvary Baptist Church Thursday night, acknowledged he set up a website that now attacks Republican candidates. (Photo byContinue reading "RED BANK: ZIPPRICH OWNS ‘ASTROTURF’ URL"
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October 25th, 2013 @ 1pm
RED BANK: TURN IN YOUR OLD RX DRUGS
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Got any out-of-date or no-longer-needed prescriptions in your medicine cabinet? Red Bank police will take them off your hands to make sure they don’t fall into the wrong ones, saysContinue reading "RED BANK: TURN IN YOUR OLD RX DRUGS"
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October 25th, 2013 @ 10am
WEEKEND: OLD MASTERS, HISTORIC HAUNTS
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Illusionist extraordinaire Mike Super materializes for an evening of large-scale prestidigitation at the Basie tonight. Friday, October 25: RED BANK: At the Count Basie Theatre — where a “ghost light” isContinue reading "WEEKEND: OLD MASTERS, HISTORIC HAUNTS"
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October 25th, 2013 @ 10am
Red Bank council candidate Sean Di Somma tells redbankgreen that no warrant was ever issued for his arrest for running a stop sign in Dallas almost three years ago, contraryContinue reading "DI SOMMA: DEMS LIED. ‘THERE IS NO WARRANT’"
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October 25th, 2013 @ 9am
AT RCDS, A NEW HEAD OF SCHOOL
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Press release from Rumson Country Day School The Rumson Country Day School announced recently that Whitney C. Slade will become the seventh Head of School in its 87-year history. Mr. SladeContinue reading "AT RCDS, A NEW HEAD OF SCHOOL"
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October 25th, 2013 @ 6am
RED BANK: DEMS FLAG DI SOMMA WARRANT
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A long-dormant Red Bank election season erupted in finger-pointing Thursday as Democrats accused Republican newcomer Sean DiSomma of ducking an arrest warrant over a traffic violation in Texas two yearsContinue reading "RED BANK: DEMS FLAG DI SOMMA WARRANT"
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October 24th, 2013 @ 6pm
Suspended Little Silver police officer Steven Solari was guilty of six counts, but not guilty of aggravated assault on a arrestee at the borough police station almost four years ago,Continue reading "LITTLE SILVER: COP GUILTY ON SIX COUNTS"
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October 24th, 2013 @ 2pm
RED BANK: DEAD FISH LEFT ON BRIDGE
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Seen on the Route 35/Cooper’s Bridge between Middletown and Red Bank at midday Thursday: four dead fish. Apparently, whoever caught them couldn’t even bother to throw them back into theContinue reading "RED BANK: DEAD FISH LEFT ON BRIDGE"
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October 24th, 2013 @ 1pm
Garfield Place would run one way west from Grant Place to the rear of the former Rassas auto dealer’s lot, located at the southeast corner of Garfield and Broad Street.Continue reading "RED BANK: ONE-WAY PROPOSAL ADVANCES"
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October 24th, 2013 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: A WALK IN THE WOODS
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Seven-year-old Anna Gredell, above, took careful notes as Jeff Dement (center in photo at right) of the American Littoral Society detailed elements of a holly leaf at the Fair HavenContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: A WALK IN THE WOODS"
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October 24th, 2013 @ 9am
RED BANK: WHAT IT SHOULDA SAID IS…
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The grammar police might want to pay a visit to 28 Broad Street in Red Bank – the future home of Patrizia’s family-style Italian restaurant – for this window message.Continue reading "RED BANK: WHAT IT SHOULDA SAID IS…"
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October 24th, 2013 @ 8am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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You can’t miss it, right? If you’ve seen the above, please tell us Where, via this email address: [email protected]. Last week’s Where Have I Seen This? was an easy oneContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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October 24th, 2013 @ 8am
TO THE TROOPS WITH CARE, FROM RFH KIDS
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Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School students and volunteers from the Long Branch Housing Authority are hoping to top last year’s impressive total of 52 Care Packages sent to U.S. TroopsContinue reading "TO THE TROOPS WITH CARE, FROM RFH KIDS"
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October 24th, 2013 @ 6am
PRIVATE OPERATORS EYE RED BANK COURTS
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The clay courts overlooking the Navesink River at Marine Park, closed since Hurricane Sandy, could go under private management. The adjacent lavatories, meantime, are to be demolished and replaced withContinue reading "PRIVATE OPERATORS EYE RED BANK COURTS"
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October 23rd, 2013 @ 11am
RUMSON: OXFORD REHAB HOUSE SPARKS IRE
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An overflow crowd jammed Rumson’s council chambers to air concerns about an addiction recovery house in town. Below, Barbara Russell returns to her seat after speaking with borough Attorney MartyContinue reading "RUMSON: OXFORD REHAB HOUSE SPARKS IRE"
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October 23rd, 2013 @ 8am
RED BANK: SMOKE ON THE WATER AT THE Y
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A smoke condition prompted an evacuation of the Community YMCA in Red Bank at around 6 a.m. Wednesday, sending wet swimmers and other exercisers outdoors. An unconfirmed report attributed theContinue reading "RED BANK: SMOKE ON THE WATER AT THE Y"
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October 23rd, 2013 @ 6am
AN EYEWITNESS TO THE INVISIBLE, AT BCC
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The documentary film INVISIBLE CHILDREN is screened as part of an October 28 program at Brookdale Community College designed to call attention to ongoing human rights violations in Uganda. AnContinue reading "AN EYEWITNESS TO THE INVISIBLE, AT BCC"
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October 23rd, 2013 @ 6am
A TWO RIVER DOUBLE FEATURE FOR THE ‘SOUL’
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Actor, author and playwright Martin Moran brings his two autobiographical solo shows — ‘The Tricky Part’ and its followup, ‘All the Rage’ — to Two River Theater beginning this weekendContinue reading "A TWO RIVER DOUBLE FEATURE FOR THE ‘SOUL’"
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October 22nd, 2013 @ 8am
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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 ...