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Monthly Archives: April 2015

ON THE GREEN: SUNSHINE, THEN RAIN
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Geese at sun-dappled Shadow Lake in Middletown Saturday. The warm temperatures and sunshine of the weekend will continue Monday with partly sunny skies and highs in the mid-60s, the NationalContinue reading "ON THE GREEN: SUNSHINE, THEN RAIN"
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April 13th, 2015 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: SEDARIS RETURNS TO BASIE
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Essayist David Sedaris brings his droll humor to the Basie Wednesday. It’s one thing to have earned the status of America’s bestest-selling purveyor of humor on the printed / pixelatedContinue reading "RED BANK: SEDARIS RETURNS TO BASIE"
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April 13th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: COFFEE, CARS AND CLUCK U
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Dan Salazar and his wife, Grisel, at right, with Grisel’s sister, Adela Carrazana, the new owners of No Joe’s Coffee House.  (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD This editionContinue reading "RED BANK: COFFEE, CARS AND CLUCK U"
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April 10th, 2015 @ 12pm
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? A TASTY STAPLE
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 A lunch order of a Classic Parm Sandwich from the menu at Val’s Tavern. Below, General Manager Kevin Feehan. (Photos by Susan Ericson. Click to enlarge) By SUSAN ERICSON Val’s Tavern,Continue reading "WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? A TASTY STAPLE"
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April 10th, 2015 @ 10am
RUMSON: CHURCH GOING TO THE DOGS
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Pets and their human companions are welcome at a new animal-friendly worship service launched by St. George’s-by-the-River in Rumson last month. The service is held on the second Saturday ofContinue reading "RUMSON: CHURCH GOING TO THE DOGS"
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April 10th, 2015 @ 10am
LINCROFT: BIG DAY ON CAMPUS AT BCC
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Manx bluesmaster Davy Knowles is the main-man musical guest at the 18th annual Brookdale Guitar Show – merely the biggest of several special events on campus this Sunday. By all traditionalContinue reading "LINCROFT: BIG DAY ON CAMPUS AT BCC"
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April 10th, 2015 @ 9am
RED BANK: BUDGET, BONDS & A NEW HIRE
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By JOHN T. WARD A first look at this year’s budget, and public confusion over the impact of a series of proposed bonds, dominated Wednesday night’s bimonthly meeting of theContinue reading "RED BANK: BUDGET, BONDS & A NEW HIRE"
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April 10th, 2015 @ 7am
MIDDLETOWN: HONORING A FALLEN HERO
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Press release from Middletown Reformed Church For the members of Middletown Reformed Church, it still seems like yesterday when the shocking news started to hit the tight-knit community, shaking itContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: HONORING A FALLEN HERO"
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April 10th, 2015 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: NATURE AREA, EXPLAINED
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Naturalist Jeff Dement, center above, of the American Littoral Society will lead a walk & talk centered on the trees and other life in  Fair Haven Fields Natural Area Saturday.Continue reading "FAIR HAVEN: NATURE AREA, EXPLAINED"
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April 9th, 2015 @ 11pm
RED BANK: A RIVER READ RETURN TO RBPL
A second-floor reading room at the Red Bank Public Library is the setting for this Saturday’s River Read poetry-‘n-whatnot jam.  (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) In trueContinue reading "RED BANK: A RIVER READ RETURN TO RBPL"
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April 9th, 2015 @ 3pm
SEA BRIGHT: DIVING INTO A BLOODY HOOK
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Ashlyn Schmidt pours a spicy bloody Mary at Dive in Sea Bright. (Photos by Susan Ericson. Click to enlarge) By SUSAN ERICSON A sweet cocktail filled with tropical fruit is niceContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: DIVING INTO A BLOODY HOOK"
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April 9th, 2015 @ 10am
SHREWSBURY BLOTTER
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Crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Shrewsbury Police Department for the period of March 28 to April 3, 2015. Report of Shoplifting in the area of Anthropology,Continue reading "SHREWSBURY BLOTTER"
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April 9th, 2015 @ 10am
SEA BRIGHT: HEY, IT’S NOW OAR NEVER
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Ilene Winters, below, plans to open her new fitness studio in a former auto repair shop next door to a Dunkin’ Donuts this month. (Photo by John T. Ward. ClickContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: HEY, IT’S NOW OAR NEVER"
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April 9th, 2015 @ 8am
LINCROFT: VICTORY ROAD LEADS TO BCC
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Former pro footballer Merril Hoge, Seal Team Five commander Captain Tom Chaby and The Program’s CEO Eric Kapitulik are the special guests, as the 2015 Victory Road Leadership Speaker SeriesContinue reading "LINCROFT: VICTORY ROAD LEADS TO BCC"
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April 9th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK HONORS TWO RIVER HOOPS CHAMPS
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Members of the girls’ and boys’ seventh-and-eighth-grade teams were honored with trophies and applause at the Red Bank council meeting Wednesday night for their respective 2015 championships in the TwoContinue reading "RED BANK HONORS TWO RIVER HOOPS CHAMPS"
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April 9th, 2015 @ 5am
Anthony DeRosa and Evan Madigan drove in four runs each as Red Bank Catholic swamped Red Bank Regional, 15-6, in Little Silver Wednesday morning. The Bucs closed a 5-1 deficitContinue reading "RED BANK: CASEYS SHELLAC BUCS, 15-6"
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April 8th, 2015 @ 9pm
COPS: FAIR HAVEN BURGLARY WAS ONE OF 30
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A Freehold man was charged this week for a string of store and business burglaries across Monmouth, Ocean and Middlesex counties, including a break-in at a Fair Haven toy shopContinue reading "COPS: FAIR HAVEN BURGLARY WAS ONE OF 30"
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April 8th, 2015 @ 3pm
‘BLUES’ ON RED BANK’S UPPER WEST SIDE
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Actor Brandon J. Dirden returns to Red Bank as star of YOUR BLUES AIN’T SWEET LIKE MINE, the drama by Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson that begins its world premiere engagementContinue reading "‘BLUES’ ON RED BANK’S UPPER WEST SIDE"
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April 8th, 2015 @ 11am
Recent arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. Andrew Gill, age 21, from Willis Avenue in Keansburg , NJ, arrested on March 24, 2015 by DetectiveContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: RECENT ARRESTS"
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April 8th, 2015 @ 9am
RUMSON: PRINTER CITED FOR RX PAD LAPSES
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New Jersey authorities have barred a Rumson print shop from producing blank prescription forms used by doctors after an investigation uncovered lax controls, state Attorney General John Hoffman announced Tuesday.Continue reading "RUMSON: PRINTER CITED FOR RX PAD LAPSES"
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April 8th, 2015 @ 6am
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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 ...