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Category Archives: FAIR HAVEN

The annual parade stops at the firehouse on River Road for a memorial service enroute to Victory Park. (Click images to enlarge.) Email this story
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May 27th, 2008 @ 5am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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There's been little formal notice to the public, but word of a plan to close the Fair Haven post office at 4p on weekdays is proving about as agreeable to local residents and business owners as the taste of envelope...
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May 15th, 2008 @ 7am
The R-FH Euro challengers: from left, Sam Wilson, Robbie Trocchia, Margot Keale, Steven Fuschetti and Jennifer Lapp. If you think understanding the U.S. economy is a brain-buster, try overlaying its complexity with currency exchange rates, European history and social trends...
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May 12th, 2008 @ 2pm
Or maybe we should call it 'rutball?' The ball would be familiar to rugby enthusiasts, while the format was touch football during a game at Riverside Gardens Park yesterday afternoon. Here, Ryan de Brigard of Fair Haven returns a kickoff...
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April 30th, 2008 @ 6am
Muralist Jim Fitzmaurice of Rumson paints a Memorial Day greeting on the side of Fair Haven Hardware last week. Email this story
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April 21st, 2008 @ 1pm
Hey, sometimes, all it takes is a line like that to make it onto redbankgreen. And so it was on Saturday that we met Richie Brister: lifelong Fair Haven resident, onetime mayoral candidate (1992), ex-chief of the fire department and...
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April 14th, 2008 @ 9am
It's been back up and running since late January, but this Saturday, the Red Bank Public Library plans to hold a grand reopening to mark the completion of a $1.6 million renovation. The interior design of the facility was done...
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April 9th, 2008 @ 9am
Today's Asbury Park Press reports on the death Tuesday of Fair Haven resident Stephen "Bill" Noglows of Fair Haven. He was 79. Prior to his retirement in 2000, Noglows and his brother owned and operated Monmouth Meats stores in Red...
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April 3rd, 2008 @ 6am
William Neumann, a Fair Haven furniture retailer who's faced repeated allegations of failing to deliver thousands of dollars worth of paid-for goods, has agreed to be barred from doing business in New Jersey, today's Star-Ledger reports. Last week, consumer affairs...
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April 1st, 2008 @ 5am
Kathi Cronin, Fair Haven schools superintendent and Mets fan. By LINDA G. RASTELLI Kathi Cronin, a Middletown native and Mater Dei grad, has two passions: public education and the New York Mets. "Hope springs eternal," she says, referring to the...
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March 25th, 2008 @ 6am
Melissa Dominach and Bailey Taft with Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna, left, and Councilman John Curley. Last month, redbankgreen featured Bailey Taft and Melissa Dominach, seventh-graders from the Knollwood School in Fair Haven who had launched a non-profit enterprise to...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 11am
An aerial view of Harding Road and Prospect Avenue, marked up with possible changes and a data box describing current conditions. Engineers recommended a less extensive fix than the one shown. Click to enlarge. The troubled intersection of Prospect Avenue...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 6am
Following the lead of the Red Bank schools, Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School plans to introduce Chinese language study next fall, and will share a teacher in the effort with Red Bank Regional, the Asbury Park Press reports. From the...
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March 3rd, 2008 @ 10am
Today's Asbury Park Press provides a district-by-district rundown of candidacies for school boards in Monmouth County. The elections are scheduled for April 15. Declarations by candidates were due yesterday at 4p. Here's what the Press reported regarding filers in our...
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February 26th, 2008 @ 6am
A Monmouth County grand jury has indicted a 52-year-old Fair Haven woman in connection with what authorities say were her efforts to fraudulently obtain prescription painkillers. Janice Rogers (no street address given) was charged iwith two counts of third-degree attempting...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 4pm
A retired Fair Haven policeman and former borough official has taken a plea of endangering he welfare of a child after he was alleged to have used a Borough Hall computer to view child pornography, the Asbury Park Press reports...
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February 13th, 2008 @ 7am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Most days, JoAnn Pileggi's life is like any suburban mom’s as she runs after her 22-month-old twins, Faith and Francis, and five-year-old, Julian. But on Mondays and Fridays, she's chasing down fires, accidents, murders and natural...
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February 7th, 2008 @ 9am
Bailey Taft, left, and Melissa Dominach amid the bounty they've collected for Red Bank athletic programs. (Photo courtesy of Margie Dominach) By LINDA G. RASTELLI Bailey Taft and Melissa Dominach are 12-years-old who listen to Bruce Springsteen and are active...
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February 4th, 2008 @ 8am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI In a fiscal climate where good news about taxes seems as rare as a celebrity who hasn't been in rehab, Fair Haven has done the seemingly impossible: lowering its municipal taxes. The rate in the next...
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January 29th, 2008 @ 12pm
Ruth Blaser: "expressly" isn't good enough. By LINDA G. RASTELLI Parking will now be more expensive in Fair Haven for expanding stores, restaurants and other enterprises. The borough council unanimously passed an ordinance last night to create a parking fund....
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January 29th, 2008 @ 11am
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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 ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.