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Monthly Archives: October 2006

How close is next week's mayoral election in Red Bank looking? Well, there are no polls that we know of. So redbankgreen devised its own measure. We call it the Electometer, a count of yard signs touting the candidates: Council...
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October 30th, 2006 @ 3pm
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Art lovers with an appetite for Americana can get two slices of the apple pie beginning this weekend at the Beacon Fine Arts Gallery, with the arrival of a show of works by Ted Jeremenko and Nick Berger. Jeremenko's work...
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October 30th, 2006 @ 2pm
After 10 years in business, Linda Celler shut down her Enchanted Evenings bridal salon and boutique at 97 Broad Street last week. redbankgreen found Celler in the empty store Friday, accompanied only by a shelf of shoes, as she awaited...
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October 30th, 2006 @ 10am
The elusive nature of place, and especially of new destinations, is the subject of a show of 18 photographs by Andi Monick that opens Friday night at the McKay Gallery. What links all the images in the show, called "TRANSITion:...
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October 26th, 2006 @ 12pm
Red Bank officials past and present would be well advised to scope out the excruciatingly limited parking options in downtown Freehold, because they could be spending a lot of time in the county seat, thanks to former Red Bank parking...
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October 26th, 2006 @ 12pm
In the second of three excerpts from our interviews with Pasquale Menna and John Curley, the mayoral candidates size each other up. And, as always, the shadow of Mayor Ed McKenna looms. redbankgreen will have one more excerpt on Nov....
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October 26th, 2006 @ 1am
The three-D stainless-steel letters spelling out the name of a now-departed business was, perhaps, a dead giveaway for last week's entry. Which probably explains why an unusual number of readers got it. But once again, the fleet-fingered Dylan Barlett got...
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October 26th, 2006 @ 12am
NJ Transit is adding a new express train to New York along the North Jersey Coast line next week, according to an agency news release. The new run will leave Long Branch at 6:30a and stop in Little Silver, Red...
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October 25th, 2006 @ 10am
"We got it for twelve grand," Ralph Marra shouted into his cellphone. "Just me and you!" Marra, of Rumson, had a finger in one ear as he struggled to hear over the celebratory din within the Sickles Market greenhouse last...
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October 24th, 2006 @ 12pm
Joel McFadden of Joel McFadden Designs on White Street talks about his use of computer-aided jewelry design during a fundraising event for the Two River Theater Company held Sunday at Teak restaurant on Monmouth Street. Ten percent of the store's...
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October 23rd, 2006 @ 2pm
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October 23rd, 2006 @ 1pm
Most Saturdays of the year, 21-year-old Erin Ryan of Belmar stands outside LJ’s Total Man/Today’s Woman clothing store on Broad Street, doing what she calls “promotional modeling,” talking up the merchandise to shoppers. But when it gets cold enough to...
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October 20th, 2006 @ 10am
A dozen new metered parking spaces were created along West Front Street this week, the result of efforts by retailers who complained about inadequate parking near their businesses and decided to do something about it, according to Tricia Rumola, Executive...
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October 20th, 2006 @ 9am
The Red Bank Public Library is closing for up to four weeks starting Monday as part of its $1.6 million renovation project. That means no book-borrowing, of course—and a break for anyone with books due for return during the closing....
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October 19th, 2006 @ 4pm
Democratic mayoral candidate Pasquale Menna has acknowledged that mailed campaign literature used to attack his opponent, John Curley, contained made-up newspaper excerpts, according to today's Asbury Park Press. "It was an error on the campaign's part. We didn't do it...
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October 19th, 2006 @ 1pm
Is Red Bank riding a surge of prosperity, poised to begin spreading its commercial and cultural riches beyond the downtown to the West Side? Or has development run amok, altering the town’s small-town character for the worse, and sticking residents...
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October 18th, 2006 @ 11pm
It's a sad tale, or so we imagine, of a tree limb that grew too close to a wire, and then around the wire, and then became orphaned, clinging to the wire as the tree from which it grew was...
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October 18th, 2006 @ 11pm
Our apologies, Shrewsbury, for thinking of you only as an uber-suburb. This is not the kind of experience we're used to having within your staid environs. But it seems you do have the capacity to surprise, you cheeky bedroom community,...
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October 18th, 2006 @ 11pm
Final figures aren't yet in, but the sixth annual Red Bank International Film Festival, held last weekend, attracted a record number of moviegoers from all over the tri-state region, says Marc Leckstein, president of the Freedom Film Society, the festival...
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October 18th, 2006 @ 9am
Lengthy sentences were imposed last week on two Lakewood men convicted in a 2003 robbery and beating at Katsin's Pharmacy on Shrewsbury Avenue. One of the assailants was sentenced to 40 years in prison, and his accomplice got 16 years....
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October 18th, 2006 @ 9am
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FALL COLORS IN RED BANK
redbankgreen's Partyline captures peaking fall foliage on a Red Bank street corner.
FALL AT THE COURTS OF RED BANK
On the Partyline: stunning foliage at Red Bank's "medieval office park."
WALK FOR DEMOCRACY
The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center led a "Walk for Democracy" Sunday from Riverside Gardens Park to the cultral center on Drs. James Park ...
Go big or go home
On the redbankgreen Partyline: Gourd display at Lighthouse on its penultimate night of the season.
MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
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