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Category Archives: FAIR HAVEN

BIKE STORE ROOF FIRE QUICKLY DOUSED
Roofers quickly put out a fire they’d accidentally started atop the Bike Haven store on River Road in Fair Haven around 10 a.m. Wednesday, police said. (Click to enlarge)
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December 14th, 2011 @ 11am
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After almost a year and a half of on-and-off debate, an effort to trim Fair Haven’s tree-protection ordinance failed Monday night, the Asbury Park Press reports. Mayor Mike Halfacre, whoContinue reading "MAYOR’S VOTE HALTS TREE-LAW SAW"
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December 13th, 2011 @ 8am
FOURSOME LAUNCHING RUMSON ART SCHOOL
Beth Sillen, Eileen Burgess, Meg Sellig and Maricarmen Buckley hope Canvas Studio Art will fill a void that the public schools cannot. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD TheyContinue reading "FOURSOME LAUNCHING RUMSON ART SCHOOL"
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December 8th, 2011 @ 12pm
DOCK PLAN MAKES WAVES IN FAIR HAVEN
A Hance Road homeowner hopes to nearly double the length of his Navesink River dock, above. An engineer’s plan, below, details the additional length, as well as the boat liftsContinue reading "DOCK PLAN MAKES WAVES IN FAIR HAVEN"
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December 6th, 2011 @ 11am
Activity reports for the month of November, unedited, as provided by the Fair Haven Police Department. •11/1/11 -Ptl. Schneider arrested Katharine Fox, 66, Rumson, NJ for being in Contempt ofContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN POLICE BLOTTER FOR NOVEMBER"
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December 1st, 2011 @ 1pm
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Enter, if you dare, the temple of Where. And if you know where the above photo was taken, please drop us an email.
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November 17th, 2011 @ 8am
The Charles Williams house, built in 1855, would be demolished to make way for a pocket park. (Click to enlarge) A plan by Fair Haven to acquire a riverfront residentialContinue reading "PRESS: FAIR HAVEN LAND DEAL STALLED"
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November 16th, 2011 @ 6am
DEER-HUNT LAWS SPUR SHREWSBURY PROTEST
A deer crosses a Shrewsbury street in 2010. (Photo by Peter Lindner. Click to enlarge) Local and state laws that allow deer hunting closer to housing than in the pastContinue reading "DEER-HUNT LAWS SPUR SHREWSBURY PROTEST"
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November 14th, 2011 @ 7am
By JOHN T. WARD Rumson Democrat Philip Wagner polled just 17 percent in his bid for a seat on the borough council Tuesday as he was swamped by incumbent RepublicansContinue reading "IN FAIR HAVEN & RUMSON, IT’S NO CONTEST"
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November 8th, 2011 @ 11pm
DOWDY FIREPLUGS GET THE EAGLE EYE
1. Scout Jack Hayes, who organized the hydrant-painting effort. 2. Ryan Jacobs, 15, left and Myles Donohue, 16, of Boy Scout Troop 67 at work on Shrewsbury Avenue. 3. TheContinue reading "DOWDY FIREPLUGS GET THE EAGLE EYE"
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November 8th, 2011 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: OCTOBER POLICE ACTIVITY
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Fair Haven Police Department. 10/3/11 -Sgt. Lambert arrested Carrie C. Lamberti, 38, Long Branch for being in Contempt of Court. Mrs. LambertiContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: OCTOBER POLICE ACTIVITY"
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November 7th, 2011 @ 12pm
By JOHN T. WARD A Fair Haven girl is recovering from injuries sustained when she was struck by a car while crossing River Road Friday night, police said Monday. TheContinue reading "TEEN STRUCK BY CAR IN FAIR HAVEN"
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October 31st, 2011 @ 6pm
WEEKEND ROARS, THEN PURRS
Autumn colors on display at Fair Haven Fields on Ridge Road Sunday, with no hint of the fury of the day before. (Click to enlarge) What a weekend, huh? Near-freezingContinue reading "WEEKEND ROARS, THEN PURRS"
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October 31st, 2011 @ 6am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
We thought last week’s Where, which we referred to as ‘three chairs, no wading,’ was a gimme.
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October 27th, 2011 @ 7am
MIRRORING THE SEASON
That’s not a photo that guy was carrying on River Road in Fair Haven last Friday afternoon; it was a mirror. (Click to enlarge) The weather outlook for Tuesday isContinue reading "MIRRORING THE SEASON"
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October 25th, 2011 @ 5am
BAREFOOT BRIDE FLEES FAIR HAVEN
Wedding gowns line the spacious windows along Monmouth Street. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Mayra Perez didn’t get a barefoot-in-the-grass feeling when she bought the Barefoot Bride, thenContinue reading "BAREFOOT BRIDE FLEES FAIR HAVEN"
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October 19th, 2011 @ 7am
A Neptune man faces a handful of charges after he got into an altercation with police last Saturday night, the Fair Haven PD reports. Allante Williams, 24 of Neptune, wasContinue reading "DRIVER CHARGED IN TUSSLE WITH COPS"
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October 19th, 2011 @ 6am
Hundreds of car lovers turned out for the 11th annual edition of an fall favorite: the Fair Haven Fire Department’s Autumn Car Show. They found the firehouse yard bumper-to-bumper inContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN CAR SHOW DRAWS HUNDREDS"
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October 17th, 2011 @ 8am
The Oceanic Bridge will get a new drawbridge, replacing a 72-year-old segment that’s heavily corroded, officials say. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Work to replace the steel drawbridgeContinue reading "SEVEN-MONTH DETOUR STARTS MONDAY"
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October 14th, 2011 @ 12pm
By MOLLY MULSHINE A proposal to establish a regional municipal court in the Red Bank area has some early momentum, says Mayor Pasquale Menna. Menna recently invited his counterparts inContinue reading "MUNICOURT MERGER PLAN GAINS A BACKER"
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October 14th, 2011 @ 7am
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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 ...