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Category Archives: RUMSON

Oceanic Marina owner Pete Pawlikowski says he's never seen, or heard of, sharks in the Navesink River. Are there, or have there been, sharks in the Navesink River lately? How about shark-mangled seals? An Associated Press story earlier this week...
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September 4th, 2008 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Fishing in the Navesink River just east of the Oceanic Bridge Friday morning. Yes, the dolphins are still feeding on the other side of the bridge. Productivity schmoductivity. Have you opened a window today? It's gorgeous out there, and the...
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August 22nd, 2008 @ 12pm
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
Contrary to a report in Sunday's Record of Hackensack, GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain will not be dining at a private residence in Rumson tomorrow night. According to Mayor John Ekdahl, the Arizona senator's wife, Cindy McCain, is expected...
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August 11th, 2008 @ 10am
Motorists flock to the railing of the Oceanic Bridge when car traffic is stopped for boat traffic. Cars have also been stopping when they're not supposed to, county officials say. Monmouth County is warning motorists not to park on the...
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August 6th, 2008 @ 7am
Sen. John and Cindy McCain, Jersey-bound. Trailing in three recent New Jersey polls, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is set to visit a GOP redoubt next week: Rumson, where no Democrat is said to have been...
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August 6th, 2008 @ 7am
An Atlantic bottlenose breaks the surface of the Navesink on the Middletown side Monday afternoon. (Click to enlarge) It's been some time since there's been anything to report on the dolphin pod that moved into local inland waters seven weeks...
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August 5th, 2008 @ 10am
Kathy Karinja of Rumson takes a photo of the flattened gazebo at Victory Park. The bandstand at the center of the park was spared. A thunderstorm that tore through The Green Saturday afternoon pummeled the Oceanic section of Rumson while...
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August 2nd, 2008 @ 3pm
Various unconfirmed emergency calls picked up over the police scanner during the storm: • A swimming pool reported in the middle of Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright • Phone line to Barnacle Bill's in Rumson pulled down (initial report said...
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August 2nd, 2008 @ 1pm
Every once in a while, these posts just write themselves... From redbankgreen's email in-basket this week: Hello! Last weekend, my friend posted her garage sale on your website and she said she had an awesome response because of it! I'm...
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August 1st, 2008 @ 6am
Today's Press reports that controversial pain-management physician Dr. Philip Eatough has pleaded guilty to federal money laundering and the illegal distribution of oxycodone. The 61-year-old Rumson resident faces 36 to 42 months in prison when he is sentenced by U.S....
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July 30th, 2008 @ 7am
Area residents came out in force July 9, when consultant Brian Valentino, left, described the preliminary findings of his police-consolidation analysis. Round two of discussions about a proposal to merge the police departments of Fair Haven, Little Silver and Rumson...
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July 29th, 2008 @ 2pm
Believe it, Mike, you're on the list. No Joe's proprietor Mike Tierney welcomes customers during the Sheehan Classic in June. New Jersey Monthly magazine's annual list of the state's best restaurants is out, and the Red Bank area is represented,...
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July 29th, 2008 @ 12pm
A kayaker watches a dolphin off Rumson last week. Today's Star-Ledger has an Associated Press story reporting that the folks at a marine animal advocacy group are getting anxious about a federal agency's reluctance to tease our visiting dolphins out...
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July 24th, 2008 @ 7am
Dolphins near the Oceanic Bridge late Wednesday afternoon. (Photo courtesy of Mary Fenton) We were just wrapping up our sixth visit to the dolphins since they moved into the Navesink River more than a week ago when we heard on...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 8am
Here's a bizarre and scary break-in case in Rumson, as reported today's Asbury Park Press: Police arrested a Middletown man who was found sleeping in a child's bed in a Club Way home early Wednesday morning. Robert W. Sampson, 20,...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 6am
Reconstituted as The Driving Service, the company's founders (seen outside Brannigan's in Red Bank in this 2007 photo) are Vince Falcetano, Norm Dannen, Zach McCue and Colin Keany. Readers of redbankgreen may recall our feature article of a year ago...
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July 14th, 2008 @ 12pm
Motorists took advantage of bridge-opening intervals to get out of their cars and look at the dolphins feeding in the Navesink just west of the Oceanic Bridge Sunday evening. Except for the river itself. the bridge is the only publicly...
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July 14th, 2008 @ 10am
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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 ...
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 ...
Swimming river sculling 062026
SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.