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Author Archives: John T. Ward

It's on. With five weeks to go until election day, the race for mayor and two council seats in Red Bank is fully underway, with campaign literature filling mailboxes and the candidates stumping door-to-door. Can the dinner-interruptus phone calls be...
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October 3rd, 2006 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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October 2nd, 2006 @ 11am
Shrewsbury police are seeking the public's help in solving a hit-and-run involving a pedestrian from Red Bank earlier this week. Angelica Serrano, 23, suffered a broken pelvis and leg and facial injuries when she was struck by a vehicle shortly...
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September 30th, 2006 @ 11pm
The Holmdel Independent has a story about last weekend's cow-pie bingo fundraiser at a farm in Middletown, which we advanced last week. Turns out the cow, named Mary, was in no rush to drop a load. A DJ tried playing...
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September 30th, 2006 @ 11pm
"I'm pretty far to the left," Al Strasburger told us with a note of caution over the phone the other day, before we met him at his Oakland Street home for an interview. Looking back, we now see what a...
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September 28th, 2006 @ 3am
Guy Johnson of the Antique Center of Red Bank steamrolled the competition and was the first to identify last week's 'Where' as the railroad trestle that crosses West Front Street near Bridge Avenue. But the most compelling reply came from...
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September 28th, 2006 @ 3am
We stumbled upon a terrific event Wednesday at The Woman's Club of Red Bank. It was the kind of gathering that sharply underscores the borough's appeal as a cultural hub, one that can compete with the best of them. Reed...
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September 28th, 2006 @ 3am
The Southies got the crowd they wanted—and the startled attention of Red Bank's governing body—as an overflow throng descended on the Borough Council Monday night to demand a halt to rising property taxes. Responding to a recent leafletting campaign launched...
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September 26th, 2006 @ 2am
The state of New Jersey has apparently had it with Sea Bright beach club owners—and the borough, too—over the question of just who owns the beach. Using a pair of court rulings as leverage, acting Attorney General Anne Milgram today...
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September 22nd, 2006 @ 6pm
There's never a blade of grass out of place, it seems, at the Mac Testing & Consulting facility on the corner of Maple Avenue and Reckless Place. The green-shuttered white building, the verdant lawn and the flowerbeds surrounding the educational...
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September 22nd, 2006 @ 11am
It's about to start raining celluloid hereabouts, metaphorically speaking, with the return of the Red Bank International Film Festival next month. And for any movie fan with an itch to write, this can be a season of exquisite torment. Who...
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September 22nd, 2006 @ 9am
At this point, it's a far cry from Proposition 13, the landmark 1970s effort that resulted in constitutional limits on property-tax increases in California. And it's barely a whisper compared to the noise made by the toilet-paper flaunting brigades who...
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September 21st, 2006 @ 9pm
As predicted by the Star-Ledger's Josh Margolin in June, Rumson resident James R. Zazzali, Associate Justice on the state Supreme Court, is Gov. Jon Corzine's choice to succeed Chief Justice Deborah Poritz upon her expected retirement next month, according to...
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September 21st, 2006 @ 10am
Something surprising happened when we photographed John Soucheck showing off his championship race walking form at Red Bank Regional High School recently: every series of pictures we took caught Soucheck moving in nearly perfect sync with the motor-driven camera shutter....
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September 20th, 2006 @ 11pm
A man's home is his castle, but if he's got a jones for medieval architecture and a lot of ironstone lying around, who's to say he can't fill his yard with castles, too? Last week's 'Where' featured a pair of...
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September 20th, 2006 @ 11pm
Only a few months ago, the Red Bank Charter School appeared to be on the brink of financial disaster. Now it's on a hot streak of fiscal good fortune, one that continued yesterday. Last month, the state Department of Education...
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September 20th, 2006 @ 11pm
Jack Westlake, the Monouth Couty Board of Taxation president who last week pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion charges, will quit his part-time county post, the Asbury Park Press reports, citing Westlake's lawyer. Westlake, whom the Press says is a...
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September 20th, 2006 @ 8am
A Rumson man has been charged with trying to lure a person he'd been told was a 6-year-old girl for a sexual encounter in a Bergen County hotel, according to the Star-Ledger. Lee Devinsky, a 35-year-old advertising executive, was arrested...
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September 19th, 2006 @ 11pm
Here's an event the kids won't be able to stop talking about for hours afterward: the Middletown Reformed Church is holding a cow pie bingo fundraiser this weekend. That's right, cow pies. Whichever numbered square in a 500-square-foot grid Elsie...
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September 19th, 2006 @ 11am
Here's a feud that must make for some chilly encounters on the SeaStreak Ferry gangplank. The Asbury Park Press has a story today on an escalating four-year battle between a couple of Wall Street bigs with adjoining estates on West...
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September 18th, 2006 @ 5pm
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 ...