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Author Archives: John T. Ward

They'll be everywhere in coming days, as the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 approaches: images depicting the horror of the attacks, the unspeakable collapses, and the resulting devastation. There will be no shortage of them. They'll be all but...
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September 5th, 2006 @ 5pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Oliver, a year-and-a-half-old Great Dane, out for a walk on Sunday. Oliver belongs to Jim Todd of Little Silver. E-mail this story
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September 5th, 2006 @ 1pm
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September 5th, 2006 @ 11am
It was an inescapably soggy scene as tropical depression Ernesto inundated the region Saturday afternoon. Please click on the image to enlarge. E-mail this story
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September 2nd, 2006 @ 6pm
Ready for your closeup? An NYU Film School student is making a short comedy beginning Wednesday at a beach club in the Rumson vicinity—the exact location is being withheld for now—and seeking extras. The film, by director Arzhang Kamarei, a...
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September 2nd, 2006 @ 8am
Take the name Bruce Springsteen, mix it up with some hot gossip, and you've got a volatile fuel, ready to propel a story around the globe in a flash. Judy Barnaby's been getting a ride on such a rocket. Her...
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September 1st, 2006 @ 3pm
News that the state had slashed a fine on the Red Bank Charter School from $1 million to $55,000 arrived just in time for the school's annual picnic, which made the event at Eastside Park rather more jubilant than it...
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September 1st, 2006 @ 9am
Here's a belated welcome to Scott Betesh and his two-month-old Broad Street emporium called Maison Blanche. Betesh, of Long Branch, comes from a family of antiques wholesalers, and he's the first to venture into the dicey game of retail. He...
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September 1st, 2006 @ 9am
A 40-year-old Monmouth Beach man who once robbed a bank and then turned himself in is under arrest again, this time for robbing the Broad Street branch of Sovereign Bank on Tuesday. The Asbury Park Press has the story. The...
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September 1st, 2006 @ 9am
Ten quick questions for Eric Auerbach of Clearview Window Cleaners, Long Branch. He's shown here at Bain's Hardware, Sea Bright. How long have you been a window-washer? About 13 years. I started off working for another company and then I...
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August 31st, 2006 @ 11pm
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August 30th, 2006 @ 11pm
Jenn Woods of Red Bank, who was narrowly edged out by David Prown in the e-mail race of correct answers to 'Where' no. 13, is the clear winner of contest no. 14. Having grown up in Little Silver and lived...
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August 30th, 2006 @ 11pm
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August 30th, 2006 @ 10am
Councilman and mayoral wannabe John P. Curley was booted from his post overseeing the borough's finance department last night, according to Larry Higgs in today's Asbury Park Press. Mayor Ed McKenna initiated the ouster, repeating his claim that lax oversight...
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August 29th, 2006 @ 10am
Well, Judy Barnaby and the folks at the Antique Center of Red Bank are looking like pretty good judges of character right now, contrary to the cynical intepretations by some regarding events at the store last Friday. Judy and her...
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August 28th, 2006 @ 9pm
A Trenton lawmaker is proposing a ban on foie gras, the cracker-meat that comes from, well, read for yourself, from the story in the Atlantic City Press: "To produce the delicacy, poultry farmers force-feed ducks or geese through metal tubes...
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August 28th, 2006 @ 4pm
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August 28th, 2006 @ 11am
John Six of Mayo Auto Service on Monmouth Street lends an arm at Saturday's 'Rock 'n Roll Up Your Sleeves' blood drive at the Two River Theater. The event, which featured live music in the lobby, was held to help...
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August 28th, 2006 @ 11am
Good god, how did we get sucked into this celebrity coverage all of a sudden? First Kittie, then the Springsteens, and now this. Will it never end? Anyway, we feel it is our duty to report that Sheryl Crow just...
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August 27th, 2006 @ 4pm
You've got to feel for the folks at the Antique Center of Red Bank. Up until now, the story that Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa were as lovey-dovey as they've ever been when they shopped and gave an impromptu concert...
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August 27th, 2006 @ 2pm
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 ...