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ASHLEY DUPRÉ SETS UP SHOP AND MOVES ON

May 15, 2012 – 5:51 am

Ashley DuPré embarked on a new life Monday with the opening of Femme by Ashley, her Red Bank swimwear and lingerie boutique, below. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Can a Jersey Girl whose work as a 22-year-old prostitute helped derail a political career in spectacular fashion return home and remake herself as a [...]

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MAKING PET FOOD SHOPPING EASY AGAIN

May 14, 2012 – 8:02 am

Kathleen Fox-Smith chats with a customer on opening day of her Little Silver shop last Friday. (Click to enlarge) By DANIELLE TEPPER Home Depot, Costco, PetSmart: With their enormous inventories, the big-box-stores that transformed American retailing in the 1990s destroyed innumerable small, local businesses along the way. They also forced customers to travel farther for [...]

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WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS, ADD KALE

May 11, 2012 – 2:06 pm

Jessica Dalmedo working her new juice bar at Fairwinds Deli Friday. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Two years after losing her teaching job in a budget squeeze, a Rumson woman has reinvented herself as a squeezer of fresh fruits, wheat grass and other healthy ingredients.

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HEADING TO A LITTLE PINK HOUSE, PERHAPS

May 11, 2012 – 10:22 am

Red Bank School of Rock manager Janet Wheeler tells us she was taking a photo of her studio’s Pink Bank finery Wednesday when this vehicle drove by unexpectedly. (Click to enlarge)

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SPACE LEAVING WHITE STREET, UM, SPACE

May 10, 2012 – 11:00 am

Briggi Brandner plans to relocate her furnishings business to Deal. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A prominent space on White Street in Red Bank is available for rent with the planned departure of a furniture and design store. And stay tuned for some possible changes just down the block at Clearview Cinemas, which [...]

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LAWYERS SQUARE OFF OVER 24/7 7-ELEVEN

May 10, 2012 – 10:00 am

The Welsh Farms store on East Front Street, site of a planned 7-Eleven, would be banned from opening all night under a law passed Wednesday night. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD In a contentious exchange that appeared to foreshadow a lawsuit to come, a lawyer for a Red Bank convenience store challenged the [...]

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RED BANK ART WALK GETS BACK ON ITS FEET

May 9, 2012 – 9:21 am

Works by Kathy Polenberg, above, and other local artists are showcased as part of the rejuvenated Red Bank Art Walk event on Friday.   It looked for a while as if it might never regain its footing — but after sitting out the past couple of years, the Red Bank Art Walk makes its return [...]

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THEY GOT GAME, AND SO NOW YOU GOT GAME

May 8, 2012 – 10:45 am

Corey Wagner, left, and Patrick Finan are taking on the uncertainty of pickup games with a new web-based scheduling tool. (Click to enlarge) By MARY ANN BOURBEAU Looking to form a pickup hoops or softball game, but don’t have enough friends? Try Joinagame, a new social network for pickup sports based right here on the [...]

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GIVING IT UP FOR DUWAYNE

May 8, 2012 – 7:30 am

Jon Caputi of Red Bank’s Jonathan Salon trims the hair of borough resident Hannah Ludwikowski, 7, as her father, Scott, looks on Monday night. The Broad Street salon gave 50 $7 children’s haircuts in four hours to raise funds for the medical care of Duwayne Powell, a 9-year-old Red Bank Primary School student suffering from [...]

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WHERE’D THE LOVE GO?

May 3, 2012 – 8:59 am

The former home of Love Lane Tuxedos is one of downtown Red Bank’s most persistent large vacancies. (Click to enlarge) By MIKE BARON Where’s the love for the old Love Lane building? The prominent storefront on West Front Street, with its distinctive retro signage, has remained stubbornly vacant for eight years, and the exterior is [...]

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WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?

May 3, 2012 – 6:30 am

Whoa, easy there, fella. If you smell meat, it’s only because we’ve just come from the butcher shop.

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ANTIQUES GALLERY FACES WRECKING BALL

May 2, 2012 – 10:37 am

With dealers scattering to new locations, redbankgreen took a final spin through the Monmouth Antique Shoppes Tuesday. (Click embiggen symbol to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The building appears to sigh and lean, as though aware of its fate. Inside, nooks and corners that once teemed with the cast-offs of the decades have begun to [...]

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CHAR GETS LIQUORED UP & LANDLORD SCORES

April 30, 2012 – 12:15 pm

The restaurant is doing an extensive overhaul at 33 Broad Street and plans a September opening, says the landlord. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD You’ll be able to get a bourbon with that porterhouse when Char Steakhouse opens in Red Bank later this year. And among those who may want to raise a [...]

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RED BANK: FOODIE TREK AROUND THE WORLD

April 30, 2012 – 7:59 am

Like the past two autumn Oysterfests, Red Bank Flavour’s new International Flavour Fest on Sunday will bulge at the belt line of the White Street parking lot. (Click to enlarge) It’s panning out to be a busy spring for Red Bank Flavour. The promotional partnership of borough-based bistros, bars, boites, bakeries, breakfast nooks, banquet halls [...]

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WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?

April 26, 2012 – 8:30 am

A second clue to last week’s Where Have I Seen This? didn’t keep some fans of this feature from going a bit astray. One guessed it was taken at Prown’s Home Improvement on Monmouth Street. Another suggested “Page Photo Service (Matthew Page) located at 113 West Front Street, Red Bank” and added: “They had purchased [...]

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