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Monthly Archives: September 2013

RED BANK: SMALL BUT AIRY SUB SHOP OPENS
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Canio Paradiso, center, and crew at the Red Bank Sub Shop, which opened Monday morning at 8A Monmouth Street more than two years after Paradiso first filed plans for theContinue reading "RED BANK: SMALL BUT AIRY SUB SHOP OPENS"
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September 16th, 2013 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Recent crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Little Silver Police Department. •August 1– Louis Haynes, 3rd, 24, of Tinton Falls, NJ, was arrested on Prospect Ave. forContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: ARRESTS AND CRIME REPORTS"
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September 16th, 2013 @ 8am
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of September 5 to September 12, 2013. This information is unedited. CRIMES: TheftContinue reading "RED BANK: FOUR TIRES SLASHED ON VEHICLE"
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September 16th, 2013 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: SERIOUS CRASH AT BIKE RACE
Racing action at Sunday’s Tour de Fair Haven following the first-race accident. (Click to enlarge) A rider in the first race of Sunday’s Tour de Fair Haven series of bikeContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: SERIOUS CRASH AT BIKE RACE"
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September 15th, 2013 @ 11am
WEEKEND EVENTS ON THE GREEN
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Flashing spokes and vivid colors mark the super-competitive Tour de Fair Haven Sunday.  (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) Saturday, September 14: RED BANK: Scramble up your SaturdayContinue reading "WEEKEND EVENTS ON THE GREEN"
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September 14th, 2013 @ 10am
Recent crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. •Peter Christensen, age 21, from Florence Avenue in Leonardo, NJ, arrested on August 31, 2013 byContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN POLICE REPORTS"
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September 13th, 2013 @ 1pm
TRTC OPENS SEASON ‘ON BORROWED TIME’
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Veteran character actor Robert Hogan (left) stars in ‘On Borrowed Time,’ the season-opening Two River Theater Company production directed by Broadway legend Joel Grey (right).  By TOM CHESEK It’s aContinue reading "TRTC OPENS SEASON ‘ON BORROWED TIME’"
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September 13th, 2013 @ 11am
RED BANK: TALKING TURKEY, FALAFEL & LOVE
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Café 28 regular Patrick Means says he was never a fan of eggplant until Mohamed Ebery gave him a taste of  Ismat Eggplant, named for Ebery’s mom. Below, Ebery dishesContinue reading "RED BANK: TALKING TURKEY, FALAFEL & LOVE"
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September 13th, 2013 @ 7am
RED BANK: ARTFUL TOUCHES
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It was smoldering summer day, much as it’s been here this week, and Broad Street in Red Bank was swarming with people downing iced coffees, ice cream – anything to keepContinue reading "RED BANK: ARTFUL TOUCHES"
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September 12th, 2013 @ 10am
RED BANK: O LORD, I NEED A DRINK
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The merriment no longer has to wait until 11 a.m, in Red Bank bars on Sundays. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Six mornings a week, those with aContinue reading "RED BANK: O LORD, I NEED A DRINK"
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September 12th, 2013 @ 9am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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One reader thought last week’s Where Have I Seen This? showed Juanito‘s restaurant, on Monmouth Street in Red Bank. Another guessed La Pastaria, on Linden Place, also in Red Bank.
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September 12th, 2013 @ 8am
RED BANK: DRIVE-THRU CHANGE SAILS THRU
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The change will not apply to a proposed Walgreen’s store at the former site of Rassas Buick, officials said. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading "RED BANK: DRIVE-THRU CHANGE SAILS THRU"
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September 12th, 2013 @ 7am
RED BANK: REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
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The Red Bank area chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society sang ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ and two other tunes at Red Bank’s Riverside Gardens Park Wednesday evening for a lightly attendedContinue reading "RED BANK: REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11, 2001"
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September 12th, 2013 @ 6am
RED BANK: SCHOOLS HEAD MORANA TO RETIRE
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Superintendent Laura Morana in her office in 2009. (Click to enlarge) Red Bank schools Superintendent Laura Morana is leaving the district at the end of the month, according to aContinue reading "RED BANK: SCHOOLS HEAD MORANA TO RETIRE"
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September 11th, 2013 @ 10pm
RUMSON: RECENT COLLEGE GRADUATIONS
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News about students from Rumson… • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY announced that Rumson’s Thomas Gabriel earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Management in May of 2013.Continue reading "RUMSON: RECENT COLLEGE GRADUATIONS"
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September 11th, 2013 @ 10am
RBR FRESHMEN RIDE ORIENTATION EXPRESS
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RBR Principal Risa Clay signs off on a scavenger hunt activity for Jack McNally, Little Silver, and Ryan Humelsine, Deal, at the RBR freshman orientation.  (Click to enlarge) Press release fromContinue reading "RBR FRESHMEN RIDE ORIENTATION EXPRESS"
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September 11th, 2013 @ 9am
Below are details about local memorial services planned to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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September 11th, 2013 @ 4am
SEA BRIGHT: TALKING WATER AT ITS EDGE
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New Jersey Institute of Technology students gather with Dutch designer Paul van Wijk, far right, on the beach in Sea Bright Tuesday morning prior to the second day of H209,Continue reading "SEA BRIGHT: TALKING WATER AT ITS EDGE"
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September 10th, 2013 @ 1pm
LITTLE SILVER: PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY
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The entry to Fox Hill Drive at Branch Avenue in Little Silver got a widening recently, but the distinctive pillars there have been retained, thanks to the reconstruction of oneContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY"
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September 10th, 2013 @ 12pm
RED BANK: AT 93, STILL WALKING THE DOG
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John Barnes and his pooch, Terry, on Linden Place last week. Below, Terry meets Maggie and her owner, Anthony DeGregorio.  (Photo by Sarah Klepner. Click to enlarge) By SARAH KLEPNER He’sContinue reading "RED BANK: AT 93, STILL WALKING THE DOG"
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September 10th, 2013 @ 10am
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SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
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 ...