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Monthly Archives: December 2016

RED BANK: A man who was shot six times as he sat in a car parked here in 2014 was charged with an Eatontown murder that occurred a year later.
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December 30th, 2016 @ 7pm
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WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? BEST OF 2016
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RED BANK: PieHole reveals its Top 10 lunches of 2016, re-savoring mouthwatering BBQ, burgers, soups, sandwiches and more.
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December 30th, 2016 @ 11am
SHREWSBURY: Y HOSTS MLK ESSAY CONTEST
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SHREWSBURY: The CYMCA invites high schoolers to enter an Essay Contest, with winners awarded at at the annual MLK Memorial Breakfast.
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December 30th, 2016 @ 5am
ON THE GREEN: WALK INTO THE NEW YEAR
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LINCROFT, SANDY HOOK: Get your head on straight for the New Year with one of these free, contemplative walks.
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December 30th, 2016 @ 4am
RED BANK: MENNA DEBT IN PRESS SPOTLIGHT
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RED BANK: Mayor Pasquale Menna has an IRS lien on his home and borrowed $75,000 to pay it from a "convicted car thief," the Asbury Park Press reports.
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December 29th, 2016 @ 9pm
RED BANK: BURNHAM CASTS FINAL ‘NO’ VOTE
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RED BANK: Firebrand Cindy Burnham, often the sole 'no' vote, ends her three-year term on the council with parting words and one last 'no.'
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December 29th, 2016 @ 2pm
CRAVINGS: CELEBRATORY PROFITEROLES
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RED BANK: A reader's suggestion led us to a decadent French dessert of chocolate-covered profiteroles that we can't stop craving.
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December 29th, 2016 @ 11am
RED BANK: MENNA WANTS BOLD, GREEN DECK
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RED BANK: Menna says he now wants to see architecturally bold, "even shocking" plans with environment in mind for White Street garage.
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December 29th, 2016 @ 8am
RBR LEADERS MEDAL IN ANNUAL CONFERENCE
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LITTLE SILVER: Fifteen RBR students win gold, silver and bronze medals in the 2016 Family Career Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) Fall Leadership Conference.
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December 29th, 2016 @ 5am
ON THE GREEN: WHERE TO WELCOME 2017
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RED BANK: Where to say 'sayonara' to '16 and welcome the New Year in style here and in Fair Haven, Rumson and Sea Bright.
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December 28th, 2016 @ 11am
RED BANK: PAYOUTS WILL DEPLETE FUND
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RED BANK: Payouts to three town employees for unused sick days and vacation time will deplete a rainy day fund, officials said.
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December 28th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: SICKELS TO RETIRE AT END OF 2017
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RED BANK: Stanley Sickels, the borough's most powerful unelected official, plans to retire in a year. But first, he'll cash out his unused sick days.
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December 28th, 2016 @ 5am
RUMSON: AN OPEN HOUSE AT DEANE-PORTER
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RUMSON: Deane-Porter School announces a Preschool Open House registration event for February 1st.
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December 28th, 2016 @ 5am
FAIR HAVEN, LINCROFT: BIG GRANTS LANDED
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FAIR HAVEN & LINCROFT: Two companies here have won National Science Foundation grants to develop technology to help kids learn.
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December 27th, 2016 @ 10am
LINCROFT: PLANS IN WORKS FOR HISTORIC INN
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LINCROFT: The Lincroft Inn, which closed after three centuries in September, has new owners, and a local restaurateur is planning something new.
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December 27th, 2016 @ 4am
BIG TURNAROUND FOR RFH SNOWFLAKE DRIVE
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RUMSON: A Snowflake Drive at RFH High School helps fight domestic and sexual violence, by contributing to the nonprofit 180 Turning Lives Around.
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December 26th, 2016 @ 5am
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? GOOD GRAVY AND FRIES
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RED BANK: What's For Lunch checks out the new Taylor Sam's on Broad Street and swoons over the roast beef "samwich," fries and gravy.
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December 23rd, 2016 @ 10am
SANDY HOOK: ENTRY FEE HIKE HALTED
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SANDY HOOK: A plan to raise entry fees 33 percent next summer has been dropped by the National Park Service after objections, says Pallone.
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December 23rd, 2016 @ 5am
FAIR HAVEN: ACME CENTER TO GET MAKEOVER
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FAIR HAVEN: As another tenant departs, the new owners of the Acme shopping center file renovation plans amid buzz about store turnover.
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December 22nd, 2016 @ 3pm
RED BANK: SPRUCING UP A VICTORIAN
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RED BANK: The latest in our 'What's Going On Here'?' series checks in on renovations to a Victorian structure in the historic district.
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December 22nd, 2016 @ 8am
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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 ...