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Monthly Archives: September 2014

RED BANK, MIDDLETOWN: CLASSICAL DUETS
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Keith Calmes and carry on: the classical guitarist teams with flautist Marjorie Koharski for a free public recital at Middletown Library, on Monday evening. Classical music connoisseurs in and aroundContinue reading "RED BANK, MIDDLETOWN: CLASSICAL DUETS"
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September 20th, 2014 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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After two bye weeks, Rumson-Fair Haven Regional’s varsity football team finally opened the sequel to its best season in school history with a clobbering of Matawan on the road FridayContinue reading "RFH OPENS SEASON WITH ROUT"
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September 20th, 2014 @ 9am
HEY KIDS, BLOCK OUT ROOM FOR DESSERT
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Faith King with her dessert a the Madison Avenue block party last Saturday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD It’s a big block partyContinue reading "HEY KIDS, BLOCK OUT ROOM FOR DESSERT"
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September 19th, 2014 @ 4pm
RED BANK: EATERY CONTENTS ON THE BLOCK
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The oven, assuming it’s sold, will have to go out the way it went in: through the front window. Below, Anthony “Tito” Vega with the three-ton oven last year. (Photo aboveContinue reading "RED BANK: EATERY CONTENTS ON THE BLOCK"
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September 19th, 2014 @ 4pm
LINCROFT, SANDY HOOK: OF ART AND NATURE
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Revels in the Details: works by the National Association of Women Artists (left) and by Laura Bethmann (right) are on display at the Monmouth Museum, beginning with a pair ofContinue reading "LINCROFT, SANDY HOOK: OF ART AND NATURE"
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September 19th, 2014 @ 12pm
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? A CLUB WE DIDN’T ORDER
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PieHole was bested by the immensity of this turkey club at No Joe’s Café. (Photo by Jim Willis. Click to enlarge) By JIM WILLIS Red Bank’s protean coffee house, No Joe’s Café,Continue reading "WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? A CLUB WE DIDN’T ORDER"
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September 19th, 2014 @ 9am
By JOHN T. WARD The owner of a Rumson home where police found 50 underage partiers consuming alcohol last Saturday night has been issued a summons, police said. Lori Krikorian,Continue reading "RUMSON: KEGGER HOMEOWNER CITED"
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September 19th, 2014 @ 9am
A forum on the problem (and prevention) of teenage suicide will be hosted at the Rumson headquarters of the Junior League of Monmouth County, on Friday, September 26. Press releaseContinue reading "RUMSON: ADDRESSING TEEN SUICIDES"
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September 19th, 2014 @ 6am
PHOTOG AUCTIONS PRINTS FOR LUNCH BREAK
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Veteran photographer Mark Weiss, pictured at center with Todd Rundgren and Utopia in 1985, will conduct an auction of his famous images for the benefit of Red Bank-based Lunch BreakContinue reading "PHOTOG AUCTIONS PRINTS FOR LUNCH BREAK"
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September 19th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: ROOF FIRE VEXES CHIEF
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Firefighters closed off a portion of Broad Street to fight the blaze. One peered into a wall cavity abutting the roof, below. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)Continue reading "RED BANK: ROOF FIRE VEXES CHIEF"
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September 18th, 2014 @ 9pm
RED BANK: DEMOLITION HITS FIRST POTHOLE
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The house, at 94 Drs. Parker Boulevard, was once the home of African American journalist T. Thomas Fortune. Below, a detail of the soffit. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading "RED BANK: DEMOLITION HITS FIRST POTHOLE"
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September 18th, 2014 @ 1pm
GETTING FRIED ON THE GREEN
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Barnacle Bill’s fried zucchini with tangy dipping sauce is a perennial favorite, while deep fried pickle spears (below) from the Globe are a newer menu addition. (Photos By Susan Ericson. ClickContinue reading "GETTING FRIED ON THE GREEN"
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September 18th, 2014 @ 11am
RUMSON: SHORED UP, BATTENED DOWN
The collision between coastal development and severe weather in New Jersey and elsewhere is the subject of the documentary “Shored Up,” screening for free this Saturday at Holy Cross School.Continue reading "RUMSON: SHORED UP, BATTENED DOWN"
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September 18th, 2014 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER: AFRICAN MISSION HITS HOME
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Red Bank Regional senior Samantha Sidun of Little Silver (left) is pictured in Ghana with her Global Leadership Adventures mentor Ashley Randall and fellow volunteer Lindsay Harris, at the footContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: AFRICAN MISSION HITS HOME"
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September 18th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: CLASSIC RASSAS SIGN RESCUED
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A bit banged up but salvageable, one of the classic neon Rassas Buick signs in Red Bank – seen below in 2013 – was saved from the bulldozer Wednesday byContinue reading "RED BANK: CLASSIC RASSAS SIGN RESCUED"
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September 17th, 2014 @ 3pm
RED BANK CHURN: PAINT, CLOTHES & HOT YOGA
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Paint Passion took over a space in the Dublin House alley formerly occupied by a jewelry store/surfboard shop. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARDContinue reading "RED BANK CHURN: PAINT, CLOTHES & HOT YOGA"
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September 17th, 2014 @ 1pm
RUMSON: NOVEMBER EXCITES EDUCATORS
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Left to right, author and tech expert Alan November is pictured with Superintendent Dr. Peter Righi, Avon School District Chief School Administrator Christopher Albrizio, and Fair Haven School District SuperintendentContinue reading "RUMSON: NOVEMBER EXCITES EDUCATORS"
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September 17th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: FUNDRAISER TAKES A KID’S TOUCH
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A chance to get up close and hands-on with an emergency or heavy-duty work vehicle is the big attraction during Touch A Truck Day, the annual fundraising promotion at RedContinue reading "RED BANK: FUNDRAISER TAKES A KID’S TOUCH"
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September 17th, 2014 @ 5am
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE MAY BE RAZED
The house, at 94 Drs. Parker Boulevard, was once the home of African American journalist T. Thomas Fortune. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A day that Red BankContinue reading "RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE MAY BE RAZED"
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September 16th, 2014 @ 2pm
By JOHN T. WARD A Rumson teen was arrested and about 50 underage drinkers were dispersed from a party Saturday night, borough police reported Tuesday. Detective Chris Isherwood tells redbankgreenContinue reading "RUMSON KEGGER LEADS TO ONE ARREST"
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September 16th, 2014 @ 1pm
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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 ...