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Monthly Archives: April 2014

The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of April 10 to April 17, 2014. This information is unedited. CRIMES: TheftContinue reading "RED BANK: BOAT ENGINE STOLEN"
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April 17th, 2014 @ 10am
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WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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Can you identify the subject of this week’s Where Have I Seen This? Take a guess! Please send your answer to [email protected]. Last week, you may recall, we showed youContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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April 17th, 2014 @ 7am
Crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Fair Haven Police Department for the period of February 1 through March 31, 2014. 02/08- Rudolph Kastner, Age 50, Rumson, wasContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN CRIME AND ARREST REPORTS"
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April 17th, 2014 @ 7am
RBR SENIOR ART SHOW COMES TO THE GUILD
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Fiona Green’s photograph Trapped (above) and Amber Czesnolowicz’s colored pencil Up, Up and Away (right) are among the works by Red Bank Regional students on display at Shrewsbury’s Guild ofContinue reading "RBR SENIOR ART SHOW COMES TO THE GUILD"
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April 17th, 2014 @ 6am
Press release from St. George’s-by-the-River Church St. George’s-by-the-River Church announced a call to artists for its annual Canterbury Art Show…A Tapestry of the Arts, a premiere local exhibition and saleContinue reading "ST. GEORGE’S PUTS OUT CALL TO ARTISTS"
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April 17th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: NEW LIBRARY TRUSTEES NAMED
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Beth Hanratty, below, was named chairperson of the reconstituted board. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) [Correction: Mayor Menna tells redbankgreen that while Beth Hanratty was appointed toContinue reading "RED BANK: NEW LIBRARY TRUSTEES NAMED"
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April 16th, 2014 @ 7pm
RED BANK: McLOONE GRABS DOWNTOWN SPOT
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Tim McLoone, below, plans to open a yet-to-be-named burger restaurant in the former Murphy Style Grille on Broad Street, above. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHNContinue reading "RED BANK: McLOONE GRABS DOWNTOWN SPOT"
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April 16th, 2014 @ 3pm
RED BANK: REPLICA SHIP TO DOCK IN JUNE
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The Onrust, a replica of the first deck-covered ship built in colonial America, will berth for two days at Marine Park. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD They wereContinue reading "RED BANK: REPLICA SHIP TO DOCK IN JUNE"
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April 16th, 2014 @ 11am
SPRING 2014: A TOO-FAMILIAR CHILL
The National Weather Service was right about that freeze warning, as residents of the Green awoke to find a dusting of snow and scrapable ice on their windshields Wednesday. TheContinue reading "SPRING 2014: A TOO-FAMILIAR CHILL"
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April 16th, 2014 @ 6am
A BEST SELLER OF LIFE ADVICE COMES TO RFH
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Best-selling author and humorist Harlan Cohen was the special guest of Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School, during a recent “Transition to College” presentation at the school. Press release from Rumson-FairContinue reading "A BEST SELLER OF LIFE ADVICE COMES TO RFH"
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April 16th, 2014 @ 6am
Women who are currently working, teaching or studying in the male-dominated field of engineering will interact with area Girl Scouts on Saturday, April 26, to encourage them to consider aContinue reading "MATCHING GIRLS WITH ENGINEERING CAREERS"
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April 16th, 2014 @ 6am
SPRING 2014: FREEZE WARNING? PLEASE, NO…
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Abundant signs of spring to the contrary, the National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning effective from 2 a.m. to 9 a.m. Wednesday. So swaddle your sensitive and early-bloomingContinue reading "SPRING 2014: FREEZE WARNING? PLEASE, NO…"
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April 15th, 2014 @ 4pm
LITTLE SILVER: SHELL TAKES EX-EXXON SPOT
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The former Exxon station at Branch Avenue and Willow Drive in Little Silver, vacant for several years, is about to reopen as a Shell station. Owner Rafi Awan could notContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: SHELL TAKES EX-EXXON SPOT"
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April 15th, 2014 @ 3pm
After 33 years, the Fair Haven Community Garden goes by tacit rules of etiquette. Others, though, have written rules.. (Photo by Susan Ericson. Click to enlarge) By SUSAN ERICSON Hey,Continue reading "KEEPING ‘COMMUNITY’ IN SHARED GARDENS"
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April 15th, 2014 @ 8am
SEA BRIGHT: MCLOONE’S OK’D TO REBUILD
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McLoone’s Rum Runner in Sea Bright, destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, will be rebuilt at its Ocean Avenue location abutting the Shrewsbury River and reopen before summer 2015, according to aContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: MCLOONE’S OK’D TO REBUILD"
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April 15th, 2014 @ 8am
SPRING 2014: KITE-FLYING IN LINCROFT
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Eight-year-old twins Will and Kate Wrede, above, and 10-year-old brother Andrew, right, took advantage of a warm, gusty afternoon and a nearly empty parking lot on Half Mile Road inContinue reading "SPRING 2014: KITE-FLYING IN LINCROFT"
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April 15th, 2014 @ 6am
RBR TECH STUDENTS EXCEL AT FBLA CONTEST
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Ten RBR Academy of Information technology students qualified and competed in state Future Business Leader of America competition and are headed to the nationals. They are pictured above (left toContinue reading "RBR TECH STUDENTS EXCEL AT FBLA CONTEST"
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April 15th, 2014 @ 6am
TOP RABBI MAKES A HOMECOMING TO RCDS
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Named as one of the Top 50 Rabbis in the country by Newsweek, Rumson Country Day School graduate Rabbi Peter S. Berg returned to RCDS to meet with Mrs. Kolb’sContinue reading "TOP RABBI MAKES A HOMECOMING TO RCDS"
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April 15th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: EX-CON HELD IN SHOOTING
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Anthony Sims in a photo released by police in 2007. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Red Bank police have a suspect in custody for last week’s shooting ofContinue reading "RED BANK: EX-CON HELD IN SHOOTING"
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April 14th, 2014 @ 7pm
Crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Shrewsbury Police Department for the period of April 4 to April 10, 2014. Report of Burglary in the area of PattersonContinue reading "SHREWSBURY POLICE ACTIVITY"
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April 14th, 2014 @ 2pm
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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 ...