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Category Archives: LITTLE SILVER

Under Little Silver's proposal, a dispatcher in Little Silver would direct patrol responses to calls from Fair Haven. Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre has published on his blog a head-to-head analysis of the competing offers from Monmouth County and Little...
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March 5th, 2009 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Today's Asbury Park Press has the obituary for Vincent DiMicelli, 56, who was killed in the Wednesday night crash involving three cars on Newman Springs Road, on the Red Bank-Tinton Falls border. Here's the obit: Vincent Thomas DiMicelli, of Little...
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February 20th, 2009 @ 7am
A seagull takes in the view of the choppy Navesink River (wasn't it just a sheet of ice?) at Marine Park in Red Bank. Across the region, emergency personnel are responding to burglar alarms and reports of downed limbs. At...
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February 12th, 2009 @ 12pm
View Larger Map The man was at the home of a non-resident relative on Ridge Road in Rumson, according to the Press. A 49-year-old Rumson man, said to be despondent over financial difficulties, was hospitalized after heavily armed police from...
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February 9th, 2009 @ 6am
An elderly patient evacuated from the building is led to a car as firefighters investigate the alarm. Smoke from a outdoor trash fire briefly routed a two-story medical office building at 200 White Road in Little Silver this morning. The...
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January 30th, 2009 @ 11am
The animal was of the same species as these two beauties seen in the Navesink River off the Rumson boat launch in November. Today's Asbury Park Press reports that a mute swan was found decapitated in Little Silver six weeks...
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January 30th, 2009 @ 7am
The Asbury Park Press had a story over the weekend about an alleged theft that, if true, involved a pretty nervy thief. The article, which ran Saturday, reports that 29-year-old Rodney Beharry of Long Branch was arrested Friday after he...
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January 26th, 2009 @ 8am
Sorry this image doesn't enlarge, folks. But if you lean in close, you should be able to generally make out the scene it captures — and maybe even identify the location. If you know it, we'd enjoy hearing from you....
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December 4th, 2008 @ 7am
An investigation has been launched in Hunterdon County into the death of a disabled Little Silver woman who died two months after being removed from a state-licensed home for developmentally disabled adults, today's Star-Ledger reports. Twenty-six-year-old Tara Leary, who was...
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November 26th, 2008 @ 6am
Pressing ahead with a campaign to address alcohol and drug abuse, Red Bank Regional High will host a two-pronged program Thursday. At 7p, John Underwood, president of the American Athletic Institute, will give a presentation for parents in the school...
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October 14th, 2008 @ 10am
Firefighters and other emergency personnel from a handful of towns were on the scene of a midmorning residential fire at 105 Rumson Road in Little Silver Wednesday. As of about 10:45a, the fire, said to have started in the basement,...
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October 8th, 2008 @ 11am
Little Silver firefighters at the scene of last night's propane leak on Branch Avenue. Behind the Winnebago and supply tank are the tracks of the North Jersey Coast Line. The propane leak that shut down NJ Transit rail service south...
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October 2nd, 2008 @ 5am
Bridge Avenue in Red Bank at 5:35p. Trains were moving through the station and traffic was clearing after a brief downpour. We'll post further updates on the Little Silver propane situation and the resulting rail and traffic tie-ups here. 5:12p:...
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October 1st, 2008 @ 6pm
This is how we roll: Fair Haven, like Rumson, prefers to go it alone, thank you. An initiative touted as having the potential to be the first-ever merger of three New Jersey police departments appears to have crashed and burned...
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September 10th, 2008 @ 2pm
Rumson Mayor John Ekdahl, left, and Fair Haven Councilman John Lehnert. A proposal to create a unified police department for three peninsula towns appears headed into a shallow ditch as it faces two public hearings this week. Last week, Rumson...
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September 8th, 2008 @ 3pm
About 100 people turned out for Monday night's meeting on consolidating police work on the peninsula. According to a show of hands, most were officers or their relatives. You're not showing us any real savings. You're creating a new bureaucracy,...
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August 19th, 2008 @ 7am
Fair Haven Police Chief Darryl Breckenridge expressed reservations about the Patriot plan at a public hearing in Little Silver last month. An all-out merger of police forces from Fair Haven, Little Silver and Rumson could save taxpayers $1.5 million in...
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August 15th, 2008 @ 6am
Peninsula residents, here's your weekend homework assignment, and no, it can't wait until Labor Day: The final report of a consultant hired to look into the viability of merging the police departments of Fair haven, Little Silver and Rumson is...
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August 14th, 2008 @ 3pm
Today's Press reports that newly installed 'no parking' signs on an out-of-the way residential street in Little Silver have disappeared — every last trace of them, including the posts they were attached to. The signs were installed just last month...
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August 6th, 2008 @ 6am
A 31-year-old Bordentown vice principal has been hired as the new principal of the Markham Place School in Little Silver, today's Press reports. Dennis Morolda, who starts in the $108,000-a-year job on Friday, succeeds Don Merce, who was killed in...
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July 30th, 2008 @ 8am
Partyline
KAYAKERS CLEAR RIVER JUNK
Partyline photo: "The Navesink Nymphs" clear floating tires from the river.
PAINT IT PURPLE?
Caption: ‘Should it be done purple?’ Perfect day. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
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MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner photographs praying mantis at church.
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)