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WEEKEND: PINKHATSYARDSALEFOODFEST

May 4, 2012 – 7:16 am

Red Bank becomes a bargainhunter’s paradise on Saturday. On Sunday: food, acres of food. (Click to enlarge) As the headline suggests, the weekend that awaits is jammed with the potential for good times. We’ve got the fifth Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale, this one making a migration from fall to spring. We’ve got one of [...]

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CARDS FEATURE OLD RED BANK BUILDINGS

December 20, 2011 – 1:56 pm

Line drawings of distinctive structures by Terry McCue, below, are on display at Red Bank’s borough hall. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Here’s a stocking-stuffer idea that’s as local as they come. A series of note cards by Red Bank artist Terry McCue honors the borough’s history by preserving, in pen-and-ink,  some of [...]

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KABOOMERS TOUT RETURN TO ‘FAMILY’ SHOW

July 1, 2011 – 3:36 pm

Spectators watching the  2010 fireworks from outside the Red Bank Public Library. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The weekend extravaganza that is Kaboomfest kicks off Friday night, a three-day indulgence on the banks of our beautiful Navesink that includes rides, amusements, live music and one breathtaking pyrotechnics show that qualifies as one of the [...]

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KNITTERS DROP A SOFT BOMB ON FAIR HAVEN

June 13, 2011 – 7:25 am

The yarn bombers at work. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI In the craggy moments just after dawn Saturday, when not much was moving except bleary-eyed bakers and the  innards of a nearby traffic light, three women sat on a bench outside Fair Haven’s River Road Books, each with a somewhat [...]

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CHOWDOWN BY THE RIVER

June 6, 2011 – 6:30 am

After a decade on the shelf, Red Bank’s RiverFest returned to Marine Park this weekend with a boatload of people — literally — and food and music. Above, some shots from the action Saturday, snapped by Dustin Racioppi. To enlarge the photo display, start it, then click the embiggen symbol in the lower right corner. [...]

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SUNDAY: MARKET ON YOUR CALENDAR

May 6, 2011 – 12:58 pm

Red Bank’s popular farmers market makes its traditional Mother’s Day debut Sunday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI It’s time to polish momma’s apple, locavores. Red Bank’s ever-popular, always-growing open-air emporium, the Red Bank Farmers’ Market, returns to the blacktop of The Galleria on Mother’s Day for its 12th season of [...]

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ART SHOW DISPLAYS FOR THE SNOW DAYS

January 24, 2011 – 9:04 am

Groveland-based artist Ryan Southerland at Zebu Forno’s first art show Saturday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The iceberg-sized snowmounds are still here. The temps are near arctic. It’s the winter blahs, perhaps the slowest time of year for action, especially in the arts world. And in the Red Bank sector, [...]

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FARMERS’ MARKET RELOCATES TO RIVER PLAZA

November 26, 2010 – 10:58 am

Vendors of apples, fresh bread and other goodies packed up their movable feast at the Galleria and took it across the Navesink to Chris’ Landing in Middletown three weeks ago. (Click to enlarge) When the clock ran out on the annual fresh-everything extravaganza known as the Red Bank Farmers’ Market three weeks ago, some of [...]

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FARMERS MARKET THE SUNDAY SPOT

September 7, 2010 – 12:55 pm

Stacey Gentile, of Cherry Grove Farm in Lawrenceville, hands out cheese samples to visitors of Red Bank’s farmers market. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Cherry Grove Farm has been at the Red Bank Farmers Market for two weeks, and it’s one of the first such open-air markets the Lawrencville-based farm [...]

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DAD VAIL DUMPS RUMSON; EKDAHL MIFFED

December 17, 2009 – 2:22 pm

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The Dad Vail Regatta won’t be coming to Rumson next year after all, officials announced Thursday, much to the shock and disappointment of Rumson leaders who were assured the popular intercollegiate race would be taking place on the Navesink River. “That is unfortunately true,” Rumson Mayor John Ekdahl said, just a half-hour [...]

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PLEASE DO NOT EAT THE EXHIBITS

December 11, 2009 – 8:44 am

A gingerbread house made by employees of Foodtown of Red Bank on display at Monmouth Street Emporium. (Click to enlarge) Here’s a nice little addition to the holiday atmosphere in downtown Red Bank: gingerbread houses. Fourteen businesses throughout the business district have locally made gingerbread creations on display through December 23. At each stop, visitors [...]

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RED BANK SUMMER CAMP GAINS MOMENTUM

August 27, 2009 – 8:04 am

Children chasing a ball during summer camp at the Red Bank Middle School last month. (Click to enlarge) After two years of tweaking, an initiative to keep Red Bank kids active and mentally engaged hit its stride this summer, parents and officials say. For parents, the Summer Enrichment and Recreational Program that ended August 14 [...]

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LOVE, PEACE & TIE DYE AT LITTLE SILVER REC

August 7, 2009 – 1:11 pm

Little Silver’s summer recreation program closed out today with a celebration of love and peace in recognition of the fortieth anniversary of Woodstock. The event concluded with a ‘tug of peace’ in which, like, a million kids took on a vastly outnumbered crew of adults and counselors. The kids won, winding up in a heap [...]

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THROWING MUD ON MONMOUTH

June 26, 2009 – 10:09 am

The one-named artisan Tito brings his fourth-generation skills to Red Bank and Long Branch this weekend. (Click to enlarge) In from Spain this weekend is a potter best known simply as Tito, who’s making a return engagement at a Red Bank store that features his earthenware. Juan Pablo ‘Tito’ Martinez is a third-generation maker of [...]

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POSTCARD-PERFECT DAY FOR STREET FAIR

September 8, 2008 – 9:33 am

Some scenes from the annual Street Fair held in downtown Red Bank Sunday. Email this story

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