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Category Archives: People

Two months after he's alleged to have shot two brothers in a dispute at the Montgomery Terrace apartments, fugitive Anthony Sims is believed to have been living a "nomadic existence across Monmouth and Ocean counties," today's Asbury Park Press reports....
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January 26th, 2008 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Rev. Elmer Jackson, left , and his son, Jeff, in training at WOW in Middletown. By TIM HATHAWAY Before having open heart surgery in June 2006, Rev. Elmer Jackson met a bicyclist who had already been through the procedure. "He...
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January 25th, 2008 @ 11am
Every so often, sleepy old Fair Haven stirs itself to controversy. It happened this week when resident Art Kamin, longtime editor of the now-vanished Red Bank Register and a past president of the New Jersey Press Association, aimed a broadside...
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January 25th, 2008 @ 7am
Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre As noted above, here's Mayor Mike Halfacre's response, solicited by redbankgreen, to Art Kamin's op-ed piece, which ran this week in the Asbury Park Press. It is unfortunate that Mr. Kamin, despite his background in...
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January 25th, 2008 @ 7am
Ethel E. Armstrong, a Little Silver native who moved to Fair Haven in 1953 and never left, died Sunday at 101 years old, the Asbury Park Press reports. On his blog, Mayor Mike Halfacre, says she was Fair Haven's oldest...
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January 24th, 2008 @ 11am
Ponceno Records, on Shrewsbury Avenue. By TIM HATHAWAY At about 11a on December 10 — a Monday morning — Charlie Williams opened his music store, Ponceno Records, and then went across Shrewsbury Avenue for a cup of coffee. When he...
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January 23rd, 2008 @ 7am
In a story posted on redbankgreen Monday evening, we reported on a possible explanation for the removal of Milton A. Gray IV as a Red Bank-sponsored member of the current class at the Monmouth County Police Academy. That explanation was...
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January 22nd, 2008 @ 11pm
At St. James RC Church this morning, members of the Red Bank Fire Department, including Chief Noel Blackwood, in long coat at right, saluted the casket of longtime volunteer and borough councilman John T. 'Jack' Illmensee, who died Friday at...
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January 22nd, 2008 @ 11am
Arlene Placer of Hobbymasters gets playful with packing peanuts. The roof of Hobbymasters on White Street is big, flat and unobscured by any surrounding structure. Store owner Arlene Placer and her son, Alan, hope to cover it with solar panels....
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January 22nd, 2008 @ 7am
[PLEASE SEE THE EDITOR'S NOTE, POSTED JAN. 22, 2008, AT THE END OF THIS ARTICLE] One of two Red Bank men sworn in last week as probationary police officers has already been dropped from the training program, a department official...
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January 21st, 2008 @ 5pm
Very Reverend Archpriest Serge Lukianov of St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church in Red Bank coaxes a reluctant pigeon to take wing during a blessing of the waters ceremony on the Navesink River Saturday. More pix below; click on 'em to...
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January 21st, 2008 @ 7am
Eve Thompson, the globe-trotting daughter of former Red Bank Councilwoman Florence 'Betti' Thompson and Stafford Thompson, was the bride in the featured 'Vows' column in yesterday's New York Times. South Africa, Jordan, Guinea-Bissau — the Princeton and Georgetown graduate "thrived...
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January 21st, 2008 @ 6am
Yesterday's Asbury Park Press reported that longtime Re Bank volunteer fireman and council member John T. 'Jack' Illmensee died at age 72 Friday. His obituary reports that he was a member of Liberty Hose Co., the Red Bank Rescue team,...
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January 21st, 2008 @ 5am
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church on Pearl Street. By TOM CHESEK At 1p tomorrow, one of Red Bank's best-kept cultural secrets is scheduled to step into public view, bringing with it a millenium of tradition. A procession of worshippers and...
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January 18th, 2008 @ 8am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Sea Bright taxpayers paid $75,000 for each of the 24 students who attended Shore Regional High School last year. The school's cost to educate them was only $13,000. In running for mayor last year, Maria Fernandes...
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January 17th, 2008 @ 7am
Red Bank Municipal Judge William Himelman has set a special court date to try the driving-while-intoxicated charge against local publisher and advertising agency owner Claudia Ansorge. The case will be tried beginning at 8:30a on Wednesday, Jan. 30. Municipal court...
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January 16th, 2008 @ 10am
State Senator Jennifer Beck will set up a 12th-district legislative office at 32 Monmouth Street, the former Red Bank Borough Hall building (or, one of them, that is) that now houses surfwear retailer Stokaboka at street level, today's Asbury Park...
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January 16th, 2008 @ 10am
Nicholas D. Maletto, at left with his mom, and Milton A. Gray IV, with his girlfriend and daughter, below, give their oaths as new new police officers. Borough Clerk Carol Vivona administered the oaths. Click on photos to enlarge. The...
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January 15th, 2008 @ 7am
Johnny Podres signs autographs at the Two River Theater in August. We thought some baseball-loving redbankgreen readers might like to see this photo of Johnny Podres, the great Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who died yesterday in Queensbury, N.Y. He was 75...
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January 14th, 2008 @ 8am
By TOM CHESEK It's the local, live-theater equivalent of a blockbuster movie opening. Illuminated by star power, ablaze with spectacular stage effects and drenched with enough hemoglobin to drown the lamps of Transylvania, "Macbeth" is coming to Red Bank. Shakespeare's...
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January 11th, 2008 @ 10am
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MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner films 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)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...