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Category Archives: RUMSON

The standing-room crowd watches a power-point presentation on the merger proposal; Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon, left, who initiated the idea, addresses the crowd, and Fair Haven Police Chief Darryl Breckenridge listens. Elected officials exploring the idea of merging the police departments...
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July 10th, 2008 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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We heard from three of our 'Where' regulars and a newcomer on last week's image, but none was able to properly identify the location. Carl Colmorgen and Alex Turoczi both thought it showed construction fencing on Riverside Avenue in Red...
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July 10th, 2008 @ 6am
Dining al fresco on the west side of the Oceanic Bridge, under the admiring watch of nearby boaters, were these two members of the pod. (Click to enlarge) Maybe they got bored just shuttling back and forth in the Shrewsbury...
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July 9th, 2008 @ 6am
If they show up, don't feed 'em. So says this NOAA sign posted on the pier at Marine Park in Red Bank. rebankgreen has been following up — fruitlessly, thus far — reports that the dolphin pod that has transfixed...
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July 7th, 2008 @ 5pm
A proposal to consolidate the police operations of Fair Haven, Little Silver and Rumson will be up for public discussion July 9, Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre reports on his blog today. The governing bodies of the three towns will...
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July 3rd, 2008 @ 12pm
Seen yesterday in Rumson. Email this story
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July 3rd, 2008 @ 7am
The view from Victory Park in Rumson last year. Hey, it was bound to get out anyway. For the second year in a row, Rumson will be home to a spectacular July 3 fireworks display to rival that of its...
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July 2nd, 2008 @ 4pm
From boats, land, docks and bridges, everybody wants to get a gander at the dolphins, it seems. "We were just saying that mothers are probably telling their kids, 'no dolphins if you don't finish your dinner,'" one woman quipped as...
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June 30th, 2008 @ 11am
With a clear shot at the Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge — the gateway to Sandy Hook Bay — the dolphins instead chose to extend their stay in the Shrewsbury River late Sunday afternoon. Two weeks later, they're still here. The pod...
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June 30th, 2008 @ 7am
A sailboat under power gets close to the dolphins between Sea Bright and Highlands late Friday afternoon. Trailed and often surrounded by big boats, small boats and personal watercraft, a pod of dolphins moved back and forth in the upper...
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June 28th, 2008 @ 6am
Dolphins in the Shrewsbury River near the confluence of the Navesink yesterday. The Asbury Park Press reports that the dolphin pod in the Shrewsbury River is heading north. The U.S. Coast Guard and state Marine Police [are] giving them an...
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June 27th, 2008 @ 2pm
Some boats are zooming past the dolphins in the Shrewsbury River; this one idled near the pod this afternoon. Boaters continue to navigate the Shrewsbury River without regard to the presence of a pod of stray dolphins in the waterway,...
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June 26th, 2008 @ 4pm
Moisture-laden clouds roll in over Sea Bright in this view from the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Tuesday afternoon. Isolated showers and thunderstorms are expected to continue into this evening. Wednesday's forecast, according to the National Weather Service: Sunny, with a high...
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June 24th, 2008 @ 4pm
When the dolphins are out, "It's just boats, boats, boats parked out there," says Ruben Nagy of McLoone's Rum Runner. Amid rising concern about their safety, a pod of dolphins will be led out of the Shrewsbury River toward open...
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June 24th, 2008 @ 12pm
The view Saturday as the dolphin pod frolicked near McLoone's. (Photos by Colleen Curry) By COLLEEN CURRY Beachgoers were not the only ones invading the Jersey Shore this weekend, as a pod of bottlenose dolphins was seen swimming and jumping...
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June 23rd, 2008 @ 10am
Rumson billionaire Mickey Gooch and his partners are suing a former employee of their Wall Street brokerage for allegedly poaching 22 staffers while still at the firm, the Asbury Park Press reports. In their suit against Donald Fewer of Colts...
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June 18th, 2008 @ 11am
The name is Italian for 'eleven,' as in 11 West River Road, Rumson. The Jersey section of yesterday's New York Times dropped in at Undici in Rumson and came away favorably impressed by the new Tuscan-themed eatery. Actually, reviewer David...
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June 16th, 2008 @ 10am
Were they cut from a lesser bolt of corduroy, we might expect some snarkasm about this article from the four young men behind the Errant Notice, Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High's totally, totally unauthorized student newspaper. For starters, they might wonder...
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June 13th, 2008 @ 9am
Firefighters and other rescue personnel on the scene of a fire at Rumson Road and Buena Vista Place in Rumson last night. Wow, who needs reporters when there's blogging Mayor Mike Halfacre? In a post on his site today, Halfacre...
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June 12th, 2008 @ 9am
Swimmers emerge from the Navesink River, heading right to finish the 1.2-mile race and left to continue on for the second lap in the 2.4-mile challenge. Dozens of competitive swimmers took to the Navesink River at Victory Park in Rumson...
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June 2nd, 2008 @ 8am
Partyline
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.