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Category Archives: SANDY HOOK

FAKE WRECK FOR TRAINING IN SEA BRIGHT
Local firefighters trained in Sea Bright yesterday using extrication tools and methods. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI One car t-boned another. A third car wasContinue reading "FAKE WRECK FOR TRAINING IN SEA BRIGHT"
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April 19th, 2011 @ 1pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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AUTHOR DIPS INTO HISTORY OF THE NAVESINK
Rik vanHemmen, author of the newly published “A Chronology of Boating On the Navesink.” (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Rik van Hemmen has been allContinue reading "AUTHOR DIPS INTO HISTORY OF THE NAVESINK"
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January 11th, 2011 @ 8am
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI When Dery Bennett (left) started the American Littoral Society‘s New Year’s Day Beach Walk in the 1970s, his goal was to stoke public appreciation of coastal marineContinue reading "A VERY DERY WALK AT THE HOOK"
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December 20th, 2010 @ 8am
POLICE IDENTIFY MISSING KAYAKER
State Police will continue its search for a missing kayaker, “for the foreseeable future,” a spokesman says. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI State Police haveContinue reading "POLICE IDENTIFY MISSING KAYAKER"
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November 18th, 2010 @ 2pm
SEARCH FOR KAYAKER HALTED OVERNIGHT
Rumson firefighters shine floodlights on the Shrewsbury River from the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge in search of a missing kayaker Wednesday night. (Click to enlarge) Helicopters and emergency personnel from LittleContinue reading "SEARCH FOR KAYAKER HALTED OVERNIGHT"
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November 17th, 2010 @ 11pm
BIKERS’ BONANZA: A TRIO FOR TWO-WHEELERS
Riders assemble for the start of last year’s Tour de Fair Haven. The straightaways and sidestreets of the greater Green have been thinned — just barely — of peak-season traffic.Continue reading "BIKERS’ BONANZA: A TRIO FOR TWO-WHEELERS"
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September 15th, 2010 @ 8am
A Red Bank man and his cousin from Sea Bright drowned at Sandy Hook’s Gateway National Park Saturday, and the Red Bank man’s brother was in critical condition after attemptingContinue reading "COUSINS DROWN AT SEA BRIGHT"
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July 26th, 2010 @ 4am
THE BRIDGE TO SUMMER SUCCESS?
The state DOT has plans to ease traffic jams at the Sea Bright-Highlands bridge construction site this summer. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI In 34Continue reading "THE BRIDGE TO SUMMER SUCCESS?"
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May 28th, 2010 @ 5am
Environmental activist and former American Littoral Society executive director Derickson ‘Dery’ Bennett of Fair Haven has died at the age of 79, the Asbury Park Press reports. The newspaper saysContinue reading "ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST DERY BENNETT, 79"
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December 16th, 2009 @ 4pm
BRIDGES HEAD IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS
Vehicles arriving onto the Sea Bright peninsula via the partially completed Route 36 bridge from Highlands over the weekend. (Photos by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Call it a taleContinue reading "BRIDGES HEAD IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS"
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November 2nd, 2009 @ 7am
IN oRBit: LOUD, BRASSY AND ON THE MARCH
Just when you thought it was safe to walk the streets of Asbury Park without dodging hordes of hungry zombies, word comes that the boulevards, boardwalks and bowling alleys ofContinue reading "IN oRBit: LOUD, BRASSY AND ON THE MARCH"
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October 15th, 2009 @ 6am
View Larger Map A decade-long effort to derail a redevelopment plan that would transform Sandy Hook‘s Fort Hancock into a convention facility notched its biggest victory to date yesterday. TheContinue reading "PARKS SERVICE REJECTS SANDY HOOK FIRM"
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August 13th, 2009 @ 7am
Here's another video take on the announcement earlier this week of the Top Ten beaches in New Jersey. This one's by Bill Day, whose work we've posted before — most recently, a look at how the economy is affecting boat...
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May 21st, 2009 @ 12pm
A boater stands for a better look at dolphins near the Oceanic Bridge last October. (Click to enlarge) For the second time in a week, the discovery of a dead dolphin has raised concern that not all of last year's...
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April 13th, 2009 @ 6am
A dolphin in the Shrewsbury River in November. The whitened body of an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin was found near the Route 36 bridge between Highlands and Sea Bright Tuesday and will be examined by federal scientists today to determine if...
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April 8th, 2009 @ 7am
Did the remaining five Atlantic bottlenose dolphins make it out to Sandy Hook Bay before their temporary home in the Shrewsbury River froze over? Two weekly newspapers have accounts in their current issues from witnesses who say they saw the...
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January 23rd, 2009 @ 5pm
A dolphin in the Shrewsbury River in November. Federal marine life authorities say only five of the original 16 Atlantic bottlenose dolphins that set up house in inland waters here last June remain, and that more are likely to die....
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January 8th, 2009 @ 5am
Dolphins near the Oceanic Bridge in mid-July. (Photo courtesy of Mary Fenton) The dolphin found dead on a bank of the Shrewsbury River in Sea Bright on Christmas was a pregnant female whose stomach was empty of food, according to...
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December 29th, 2008 @ 5am
A dolphin exhibited a feeding behavior dubbed "mouth open" in the Shrewsbury on Tuesday. (NOAA photo) Marine scientists remain convinced that the 12 Atlantic bottlenose dolphins still in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers six months after their arrival are neither...
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December 18th, 2008 @ 7am
Dolphins in the upper Shrewsbury in late June, shortly after their arrival. Amid concern that a pod of dolphins may be imperiled by by falling temperatures in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers, federal marine officials have scheduled a conference call...
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December 17th, 2008 @ 6am
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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.