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Monthly Archives: November 2014

RED BANK: A FLAVOUR-FAVE FOR FOODIES
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The Big Event in small plates returns to Red Bank on December 4, as the third annual Holiday Flavour showcase commandeers the Molly Pitcher Inn. (Photo by Jim Willis) Press releaseContinue reading "RED BANK: A FLAVOUR-FAVE FOR FOODIES"
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November 20th, 2014 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Press release from Brookdale Community College In recognition of World AIDS Day, the Student Life Center at Brookdale Community College will offer free HIV testing at the Lincroft campus onContinue reading "LINCROFT: WORLD AIDS DAY EVENT AT BCC"
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November 20th, 2014 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: STUDENT TACKLES STORM SURGES
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Caroline Peters on the Fair Haven Dock with her informational plaque describing storm surges. Below, an enlargeable view of her project. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: STUDENT TACKLES STORM SURGES"
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November 19th, 2014 @ 1pm
MIDDLETOWN: HOW TO MAKE A ‘DIAMOND’
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Elias Kotsis and Jessica Fisher (center) are featured in the cast of Middletown High School South’s THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ, director Alexis Kozak’s own adaptation of theContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: HOW TO MAKE A ‘DIAMOND’"
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November 19th, 2014 @ 12pm
 The Green’s butchers suggest customers get their Thanksgiving orders in by this Thursday. (Photo by Jim Willis. Click to enlarge) By JIM WILLIS With Thanksgiving just over a week away, ’tis the seasonContinue reading "BUTCHERS TALK TURKEY BREASTS"
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November 19th, 2014 @ 11am
Fresh off capturing the Group 2 State Championship Saturday, Rumson-Fair Haven’s field hockey team notched a 6-0 win over Shore Regional in the play-in game of the Tournament of ChampionsContinue reading "RFH GIRLS, ALREADY CHAMPS, AIM HIGHER"
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November 19th, 2014 @ 7am
WEATHER TURNS BONE-CHILLING COLD
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Ok, so it didn’t snow – we just wanted to have some fun. But it was 21 degrees Fahrenheit in Red Bank at 6 a.m. Wednesday, and 13 degrees withContinue reading "WEATHER TURNS BONE-CHILLING COLD"
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November 19th, 2014 @ 6am
CHROMEBOOK TECH FOR RUMSON STUDENTS
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Ms. Farrell’s  fourth grade classroom at Forrestdale School in Rumson employs Google Chromebook  laptop computers, as part of an ambitious new project in the borough’s schools. Press release from RumsonContinue reading "CHROMEBOOK TECH FOR RUMSON STUDENTS"
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November 19th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: GAS LEAK SLOWS THE FLOW
Repair work on a leaking natural gas line on Riverside Avenue in Red Bank had northbound traffic on Route 35 backed up nearly to Waverly Place early Tuesday afternoon asContinue reading "RED BANK: GAS LEAK SLOWS THE FLOW"
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November 18th, 2014 @ 2pm
RED BANK: THE GILL-MAN JUMPS IN
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Everybody in the truck: Vince Gill joins the Time Jumpers for a tour that rolls into the Count Basie Theatre Wednesday. A member in good standing of the Country MusicContinue reading "RED BANK: THE GILL-MAN JUMPS IN"
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November 18th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: O’SCANLON BEATS RED-LIGHT CAMS
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Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon in his Red Bank office Monday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD After five years of pedal-to-the-floor critiques, Red Bank-area stateContinue reading "RED BANK: O’SCANLON BEATS RED-LIGHT CAMS"
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November 18th, 2014 @ 10am
RUMSON: DOLL FANCY AND A DASH OF HISTORY
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In honor of Jewish Book Month, dozens of girls gathered at Congregation B’nai Israel in Rumson Sunday for a tea party centered on American Girl character Rebecca Rubin. The doll’sContinue reading "RUMSON: DOLL FANCY AND A DASH OF HISTORY"
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November 18th, 2014 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: RBR’S KELLER HONORED
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Suzanne Keller, Red Bank Regional’s Director of the SOURCE program was recently honored by the Latino American Association of Monmouth County at its Twenty First Award Banquet, held on OctoberContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: RBR’S KELLER HONORED"
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November 18th, 2014 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER MULLS FIRST LIQUOR LICENSE
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Residents packed Monday night’s borough council meeting, many in support of a referendum on the license question.  (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD LittleContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER MULLS FIRST LIQUOR LICENSE"
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November 17th, 2014 @ 11pm
RED BANK: LITTLE PINK (HAUNTED) HOUSES
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T Bone Burnett, John Mellencamp and Stephen King are the creative crew — and Gina Gershon co-stars — as GHOST BROTHERS OF DARKLAND COUNTY takes its cross-country tour to theContinue reading "RED BANK: LITTLE PINK (HAUNTED) HOUSES"
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November 17th, 2014 @ 12pm
Two Red Bank Catholic football players are in the running for a Week 10  Shore Sports Zone play-of-the-week game ball following the Casey’s first-round 62-7 playoff blowout of Bishop EustaceContinue reading "RBC: TWO CASEYS ON SSZ GAME BALL BALLOT"
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November 17th, 2014 @ 11am
Video of Jeffrey Michel’s arrest on the Brookdale campus Friday. (Video posted by Vincent Cordero) By JOHN T. WARD Video of the arrest of a Freehold man on the LincroftContinue reading "LINCROFT: CAMPUS ARREST VIDEO GOES VIRAL"
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November 17th, 2014 @ 11am
RED BANK: A ‘TRAILBLAZER’ GETS HER DUE
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Descendants of Katharine Elkus White and local officials at Friday’s dedication of the roadway in Marine Park to the late mayor and ambassador. White, seen below in 1948. (Photo aboveContinue reading "RED BANK: A ‘TRAILBLAZER’ GETS HER DUE"
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November 17th, 2014 @ 8am
SHREWSBURY: CYMCA SEEKS HOLIDAY HELPERS
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Community YMCA Counseling and Social Services team members Danielle Bossert, Christina DeAngelis and Heather Soto with wrapped presents for the Adopt-A-Family Program in 2013. Press release from The Community YMCAContinue reading "SHREWSBURY: CYMCA SEEKS HOLIDAY HELPERS"
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November 17th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: TURK ON TOWER HILL
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He’s toured across three continents, appeared at Carnegie Hall, and performed live concert broadcasts for NPR, in addition to many other professional accomplishments and accolades. That said, Monmouth County musicContinue reading "RED BANK: TURK ON TOWER HILL"
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November 15th, 2014 @ 12pm
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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 ...