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Monthly Archives: April 2015

The Sony Pictures Classics rockumentary LAMBERT AND STAMP is screened as part of statewide student film competition Project FX, with finalists in the High School and College categories showcased at theContinue reading "RED BANK: BASIE ‘FX’ THE FUTURE OF FILM"
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April 17th, 2015 @ 12pm
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WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? POUR HOUSE REUBEN
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Just one of a huge selection of daily specials at the Pour House, the Hot Pastrami Reuben is affordable and satisfying. (Photo by Jim Willis. Click to enlarge) By JIM WILLIS AsContinue reading "WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? POUR HOUSE REUBEN"
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April 17th, 2015 @ 10am
LITTLE SILVER: SCHOOL JOBS DEBATED
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The two-school district includes the Little Silver Point Road School, above. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Under pressure from parents, the Little SilverContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: SCHOOL JOBS DEBATED"
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April 17th, 2015 @ 8am
RED BANK: ‘BLUES’ WITH SOMETHING EXTRA
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Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, former Asbury Park Mayor Ed Johnson, and actor-director-playwright Ruben Santiago-Hudson take part in an April 26 panel discussion on Creating Social Change, an eventContinue reading "RED BANK: ‘BLUES’ WITH SOMETHING EXTRA"
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April 17th, 2015 @ 6am
Crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Fair Haven Police Department for the month of March, 2015. 3/3- A River Road resident reported that an unknown subject hadContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: CRIME & ARREST REPORTS"
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April 17th, 2015 @ 5am
RED BANK: CLASSIC BOATHOUSE PROPOSED
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A rendering of the proposed Marine Park Activity Center shows the existing Monmouth Boat Club at right. (Rendering by Katie Osepchuk. Click to enlarge.) By JOHN T. WARD One ofContinue reading "RED BANK: CLASSIC BOATHOUSE PROPOSED"
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April 16th, 2015 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER: MELANIE TO JOIN HALL OF FAME
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Melanie Safka Shekeryk, above, and Red Bank police Sergeant Juan Sardo are headed into the RBR Hall of Fame. (Photo from melaniesafka.com. Click to enlarge) Folk singer Melanie, who wonContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: MELANIE TO JOIN HALL OF FAME"
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April 16th, 2015 @ 8am
MIDDLETOWN: WHEN THE SUN HITS YOUR EYE
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It’s been called the Italian Decade — that pop-music moment between the D-Day invasion at Normandy and the British Invasion of the Beatles and their peers, a time when aContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: WHEN THE SUN HITS YOUR EYE"
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April 16th, 2015 @ 6am
BIG HONOR FOR LITTLE SILVER COUNSELOR
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Press release from Red Bank Regional High School Middletown resident and Red Bank Regional High School guidance counselor Jill Maline was recently recognized as the Monmouth County Counselor of theContinue reading "BIG HONOR FOR LITTLE SILVER COUNSELOR"
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April 16th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: RIVERFRONT REC CENTER PROPOSED
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Renderings of the proposed Red Bank Harbor plan filed with the borough government on Wednesday. The horseshoe-shaped borough marina is in the foreground above. (Drawings by S.O.M.E. Architects. Click toContinue reading "RED BANK: RIVERFRONT REC CENTER PROPOSED"
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April 15th, 2015 @ 1pm
CHOICE VOICES IN RED BANK, MIDDLETOWN
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AMERICA’S GOT TALENT breakout sensation Jackie Evancho, left, makes her area debut at the Count Basie this Friday, while Gianna Salvato (of THE VOICE competition) joins kindie-rocker Miss Sherri forContinue reading "CHOICE VOICES IN RED BANK, MIDDLETOWN"
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April 15th, 2015 @ 9am
LITTLE SILVER KIDS RECYCLE A GREAT IDEA
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Students from Point Road School in Little Silver present grocery bags decorated with Earth-friendly messages as part of the eighth annual Earth Day partnership between the school and Sickles Market. Continue reading "LITTLE SILVER KIDS RECYCLE A GREAT IDEA"
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April 15th, 2015 @ 6am
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of April 2 to April 9, 2015. This information is unedited. CRIMES TheftContinue reading "RED BANK: FOUR ARRESTED FOR DWI"
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April 15th, 2015 @ 5am
CHURN: FRESH STARTS DOWNTOWN
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The building at 14 West Front Street, center above, has changed hands. The white one next door is the site of a proposed roof deck for the Downtown, at farContinue reading "CHURN: FRESH STARTS DOWNTOWN"
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April 14th, 2015 @ 1pm
Crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Rumson Police Department for the period of March, 2015. 3/1/15 S/O 2 Morse took a report of vandalism to a mailboxContinue reading "RUMSON POLICE BLOTTER"
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April 14th, 2015 @ 10am
By JOHN T. WARD A decision by the Little Silver school district to terminate its two media specialists at the end of the year has stirred some passion that mayContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: SCHOOL CUTS IN SPOTLIGHT"
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April 14th, 2015 @ 8am
Shore Sports Zone All-Zone offensive lineman Liam Smith, a junior at Red Bank Catholic, has given a verbal commitment to play in the ACC for David Cutcliffe and the DukeContinue reading "RBC LINEMAN SMITH COMMITS TO DUKE"
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April 14th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: FOURPLAY, THEN SOME SPYRO GYRA
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Fusion-jazz force of nature Spyro Gyra is part of a double-bop bill that takes the Count Basie stage this Thursday. It’s called fusion – a crossroads of modern bop jazz withContinue reading "RED BANK: FOURPLAY, THEN SOME SPYRO GYRA"
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April 14th, 2015 @ 5am
FAIR HAVEN: 160-YEAR-OLD HOUSE RAZED
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Old but not considered of historic value, Fair Haven’s Charles Williams house (seen at right in 2010), was reduced to splinters and dust Monday morning. The house, built by aContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: 160-YEAR-OLD HOUSE RAZED"
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April 13th, 2015 @ 10am
Shore Sports Zone All-Zone wide receiver Sadiq Palmer of Red Bank Regional has given a verbal commitment to play for the Syracuse Orange as first reported by CuseNation.com. Palmer wasContinue reading "RBR’S PALMER COMMITS TO SYRACUSE"
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April 13th, 2015 @ 7am
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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 ...