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Author Archives: John T. Ward

At the annual meeting of RiverCenter on Monday night, Ingeborg Perndorfer of The Language School passed around photos of downtown planters spilling over with colorful flowers. Architect Stephen Raciti emceed a series of awards for downtown building improvements. And departing...
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November 8th, 2006 @ 11pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Last week's 'Where' drew an interesting mix of respondents, including Mike Halfacre, who was elected mayor of Fair Haven on Tuesday night (congratulations, Mike), and Red Bank roofer Joe Ruffini, who tells us he used to climb on the object...
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November 8th, 2006 @ 11pm
Red Bank Democrats swept the board in Tuesday's election, led by mayoral candidate and Latin buff Pasquale Menna, who outpolled fellow councilmember John Curley by 101 votes in unofficial tallying to become the first immigrant Italian to win the borough's...
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November 8th, 2006 @ 12am
Smoke pours from a house that was extensively damaged by fire on South Pearl Street late Monday afternoon. Firefighters quickly brought the blaze under control. E-mail this story
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November 7th, 2006 @ 7am
After a dry run in the June primaries, Monmouth County plans to use touch-screen electronic voting machines for the first time in a general election on Tuesday. The change in technology means that returns will be made available via the...
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November 6th, 2006 @ 3pm
Pat Menna is showing off the first floor of his home, a spacious Dutch Colonial he shares with his five-year-old white Labrador retriever, Bella. It’s on a corner lot in one of Red Bank’s more upmarket neighborhoods, and in contrast...
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November 5th, 2006 @ 2am
Somehow, the décor seems out of character for the sole occupant of this 673-square-foot condo at Red Bank Manor, a shady cluster of two-story red-brick buildings off Spring Street. For starters, it’s painted beige, a neutral color. And with its...
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November 5th, 2006 @ 2am
Hey, we all make mistakes. We make mistakes as individuals, and sometimes as members of businesses or other organizations that allow our failings to leak out into public view. Reporters and editors know all too well the sinking feeling that...
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November 3rd, 2006 @ 2pm
The final installment of our three-part Q&A with the mayoral candidates has the scholarly Pasquale Menna invoking the Ostrogoths and the combative John Curley backing away from use of the term "flunkies." Oh, and we also find out why they...
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November 2nd, 2006 @ 12am
"Blissfully quiet," says one resident. "It's been so peaceful," says another. Those were two assessments of life at the corner of Leighton Avenue and Catherine Street yesterday, 24 hours after Red Bank officials shut down the controversial Best Liquors store...
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November 2nd, 2006 @ 12am
Alicia Woods of Little Silver stepped up, so to speak, and identified last week's 'Where' as a set of concrete steps between parking areas at the First Presbyterian Church at Red Bank. Tower Hill, that is. Congrats to Alicia, who...
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November 2nd, 2006 @ 12am
Two people were killed this morning in what authorities described as a horrific accident on Newman Springs Road involving a car, a dumptruck and a school bus that had just dropped off students at Christian Brothers Academy. The Star-Ledger has...
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November 1st, 2006 @ 8pm
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November 1st, 2006 @ 10am
How close is next week's mayoral election in Red Bank looking? Well, there are no polls that we know of. So redbankgreen devised its own measure. We call it the Electometer, a count of yard signs touting the candidates: Council...
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October 30th, 2006 @ 3pm
Art lovers with an appetite for Americana can get two slices of the apple pie beginning this weekend at the Beacon Fine Arts Gallery, with the arrival of a show of works by Ted Jeremenko and Nick Berger. Jeremenko's work...
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October 30th, 2006 @ 2pm
After 10 years in business, Linda Celler shut down her Enchanted Evenings bridal salon and boutique at 97 Broad Street last week. redbankgreen found Celler in the empty store Friday, accompanied only by a shelf of shoes, as she awaited...
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October 30th, 2006 @ 10am
The elusive nature of place, and especially of new destinations, is the subject of a show of 18 photographs by Andi Monick that opens Friday night at the McKay Gallery. What links all the images in the show, called "TRANSITion:...
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October 26th, 2006 @ 12pm
Red Bank officials past and present would be well advised to scope out the excruciatingly limited parking options in downtown Freehold, because they could be spending a lot of time in the county seat, thanks to former Red Bank parking...
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October 26th, 2006 @ 12pm
In the second of three excerpts from our interviews with Pasquale Menna and John Curley, the mayoral candidates size each other up. And, as always, the shadow of Mayor Ed McKenna looms. redbankgreen will have one more excerpt on Nov....
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October 26th, 2006 @ 1am
The three-D stainless-steel letters spelling out the name of a now-departed business was, perhaps, a dead giveaway for last week's entry. Which probably explains why an unusual number of readers got it. But once again, the fleet-fingered Dylan Barlett got...
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October 26th, 2006 @ 12am
Partyline
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.
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 ...