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Monthly Archives: March 2016

WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? A SALVADORAN FEAST
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Pollo Azado  with casamiento at Fredy Jeremy’s, seen below. (Photos by Susan Ericson. Click to enlarge) By SUSAN ERICSON Tucked into a nondescript, partly vacant strip mall next door to a carContinue reading "WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? A SALVADORAN FEAST"
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March 11th, 2016 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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MIDDLETOWN POLICE BLOTTER
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Recent crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. Thomas Earls, age 55, from Chadwell Court in Neptune, NJ, arrested on February 23, 2016 byContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN POLICE BLOTTER"
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March 11th, 2016 @ 6am
RED BANK: A BRIDGE TO YOUR INNER WRITER
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Brookdale professor Laura McCullough discusses "How to Publish in Literary Magazines," during the first in a new series of helpful seminars at the Bridge Avenue studio space of Project Write Now.
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March 11th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: BRAIN TUMOR WALK A FIRST FOR NJ
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A Red Bank resident is contact person for the first ever Central Jersey Brain Tumor Walk on April 2, organized by a young friend who's battling a tumor herself.
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March 11th, 2016 @ 5am
Crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Shrewsbury Police Department for the period of March 1 to March 5, 2016. Crime Reports A report of Property Damage wasContinue reading "SHREWSBURY POLICE BLOTTER"
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March 10th, 2016 @ 1pm
RED BANK: SEASONAL PHOTO CONTEST DEBUTS
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Photos by a Red Bank Middle School student, Jonathan Balanzar, above, and an adult, Lidia Carranza, right, were the winners in the first of a new series of seasonal photoContinue reading "RED BANK: SEASONAL PHOTO CONTEST DEBUTS"
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March 10th, 2016 @ 11am
RED BANK: COUNCIL TAPS METER INSTALLER
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Existing water meters are to be replaced with new technology that includes radio transmitters for remote reading, like one already in use on this new house on Oakland Street. (Photo by JohnContinue reading "RED BANK: COUNCIL TAPS METER INSTALLER"
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March 10th, 2016 @ 9am
ON THE GREEN: SPRING? KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON
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According to the National Weather Service, temperatures were peaking at 81 degrees on the Greater Red Bank Green when we snapped this photo at Maple Cove in Red Bank shortlyContinue reading "ON THE GREEN: SPRING? KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON"
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March 10th, 2016 @ 6am
RUMSON: A TRADITION MINTED ON THE GREEN
The Rumson St. Patrick's Day Parade marches again this Sunday, in a fourth annual fleadh of marching bands, floats, step dancers, classic cars and community organizations.
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March 10th, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: FREE WELDING TRAINING FROM BCC
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Brookdale Community College teams with Ocean County College for a new training program in welding, free to unemployed area residents.
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March 10th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: TEACHING MR. SHAKESPEARE
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Forty teachers from Monmouth and other NJ counties gathered for a how-to on teaching the works of William Shakespeare, in a workshop hosted at Two River Theater.
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March 10th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: THAT’S SOME ENCHANTED EVENING
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Khadijah Mohammed is among the guest vocalists joining Joe Muccioli and the Red Bank Jazz Orchestra at Two River Theater, during Saturday's third annual Enchanted Evening of Song fundraiser for youth music education.
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March 9th, 2016 @ 12pm
Hovnanian’s headquarters in Red Bank. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises‘ departure from the Minnesota market contributed to a $16.2 million net loss in its firstContinue reading "RED BANK: HOVNANIAN ‘DELEVERAGING’ BOOKS"
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March 9th, 2016 @ 10am
SANDY HOOK: TRUCK EATS TO REPLACE STANDS
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JB Wood Fired Pizza at Sandy Hook in June, 2015. Below, the concession stand at lot B is among three to be torn down and replaced by food trucks.  (Photo above by JimContinue reading "SANDY HOOK: TRUCK EATS TO REPLACE STANDS"
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March 9th, 2016 @ 6am
Two days after their male counterparts fell to the same school, the girls’ basketball squad of Rumson-Fair Haven Regional went up against the Lady Warriors of Manasquan for the fourth time thisContinue reading "RFH GIRLS END SEASON WITH LOSS TO ‘SQUAN"
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March 9th, 2016 @ 6am
SEA BRIGHT: FIRE CHIEF ARRESTED
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Sea Bright’s fire chief was arrested on a domestic violence charge last week, according to borough police Chief John Sorrentino. Police arrested Andrew “Brett” Murphy at his Ocean Avenue homeContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: FIRE CHIEF ARRESTED"
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March 9th, 2016 @ 5am
ON THE GREEN: SPRING ON THE HORIZON?
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A sprucing-up at the seasonally open Strollo’s Lighthouse Italian ice stand in Red Bank in Tuesday’s t-shirt weather would seem to signal the approach of winter’s end. Of course, it’s neverContinue reading "ON THE GREEN: SPRING ON THE HORIZON?"
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March 9th, 2016 @ 5am
RBR AWARDS LETTERS TO ACADEMIC STARS
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Fifty students at Red Bank Regional were honored by the Board of Ed with Varsity Letters for academic achievement and all-around excellence.
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March 9th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: SIGN LAW FLICKERS BACK TO LIFE
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A proposed ordinance to regulate signage is still too complex, officials say. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD After more than two years of reviewContinue reading "RED BANK: SIGN LAW FLICKERS BACK TO LIFE"
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March 8th, 2016 @ 3pm
RUMSON: GET YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW
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Decoys and demos, auctions and appraisals, paintings and drawings and more, as the Two Rivers Exhibition of Sporting Collectible Art returns to Forrestdale School on Saturday.
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March 8th, 2016 @ 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 ...