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Monthly Archives: November 2006

You're on your way into a restaurant you've been dying to check out, and just as you near the door, it hits you: the cloud of nicotine exhaust you have to pass through thanks to the cigarette junkies huddled against...
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November 30th, 2006 @ 10pm
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Life can be pretty frustrating on Tower Hill Avenue near Harding Road. Cars heading west and downhill on Harding often turn onto Tower Hill virtually on two wheels, and then barrel down the narrow street of tidy homes to the...
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November 30th, 2006 @ 12am
Christine Jahnig of Red Bank was the first of several readers to recognize the site of last week's photo, which showed, in her words, "a lovely...formal boxwood maze." The well-tended topiary can be found on Sycamore Avenue in Shrewsbury, just...
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November 30th, 2006 @ 12am
What's with the partial pave jobs on Hudson Avenue and East Bergen Place? Almost two weeks ago, paving contractors laid down a 10-foot wide strip of steamy new asphalt along the north side of East Bergen. At the same time,...
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November 30th, 2006 @ 12am
A year after the shutdown of the Westboro Post Office on Shrewsbury Avenue because of mold contamination, officials have set an estimated reopening date. A postal service spokesman, George Flood, tells redbankgreen that the substation is expected to re-open by...
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November 29th, 2006 @ 11am
The accelerating shift of newspaper content from dead trees to the web will be topic A of a special program this Thursday evening (Nov. 30) at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft. The event, titled "The Changing World of American Journalism,"...
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November 28th, 2006 @ 7pm
No big surprise, but don't look for a Dollar Shoe store to take over the old Garmany space at 105 Broad Street. Owner Larry Garmany tells redbankgreen he's close to an anchor lease deal for the red brick building, which...
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November 27th, 2006 @ 3pm
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November 27th, 2006 @ 11am
"Some people absolutely love Asbury Park," Bob & Elisabeth McKay of the McKay Gallery say in a statement about their next show. "Others remember it fondly as they take great care to drive around it." Artists, of course, are among...
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November 27th, 2006 @ 10am
SOUP, SAUSAGE AND STAYING POWER
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Ten quick questions for Gary Sable, owner and sole employee of That Hot Dog Place, 30 Monmouth Street (next to the Dublin House). Gary’s 54, married, lives in Hazlet and has two grown daughters. Did you have another career before...
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November 24th, 2006 @ 1pm
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November 24th, 2006 @ 10am
Here's an event we're really looking forward to, brought to life by the Freedom Film Society, the people behind the annual Red Bank International Film Festival. On Saturday, Dec. 2, photographer Danny Sanchez will open up his Bridge Avenue studio...
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November 24th, 2006 @ 1am
Terry Gross's National Public Radio interview show, called Fresh Air, could hardly have a more apt name. The variety of fascinating personalities that cycles through her studio at WHYY in Philadelphia is proof that there is an alternative to the...
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November 24th, 2006 @ 1am
Last week's 'Where' showed a a drab, boarded-up shop with eye-catching turquoise trim. We can now reveal that the building is located on Cedar Avenue in Fair Haven. And it seems fitting that the first person to identify it was...
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November 22nd, 2006 @ 11pm
Somewhere along the way, our lives tend to get filled up with all sorts of stuff that we've settled for. Unsatisfying jobs. Unfulfilling relationships. A million little things that crowd out who we want to be. Bill McDonald, a personal...
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November 22nd, 2006 @ 11pm
Apparently, it'll take three feet to fill the big empty shoe left behind by Garmany when it vacated the old post office for its current space in the longtime Steinbach's building last year. The high-end clothing retailer has submitted a...
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November 22nd, 2006 @ 11am
Two weeks after his election, and six weeks before he's to be sworn in, Mayor-elect Pat Menna moved to put his stamp on Red Bank Monday night, introducing a plan to expand the special-assessment business district known as RiverCenter to...
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November 21st, 2006 @ 4pm
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November 21st, 2006 @ 4pm
Existing-home sales in New Jersey plunged nearly 24 percent in the third quarter, according to news from the National Association of Realtors. Nationwide, the decline was more than 12 percent. And yet, median prices in central New Jersey, which includes...
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November 20th, 2006 @ 12pm
Dog trainer Drayton Michaels of Urban Dawgs outside the Broad Street post office with Vegas, a 2-year-old boxer now learning the finer points of canine behavior, if not obedience to signs. E-mail this story
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November 17th, 2006 @ 11am
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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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