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Monthly Archives: December 2016

RED BANK: O’SCANLON, HANDLIN TO FACE OFF
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RED BANK: Assembly officemates Declan O'Scanlon and Amy Handlin to vie for 13th-district senate, hoping to land the seat being vacated by Joe Kyrillos.
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December 9th, 2016 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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LITTLE SILVER: RBR SEEKS HALL OF FAMERS
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LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional seeks nominations by may 1, to its newly established Athletic Hall of Fame.
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December 9th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: DECORATING CONTEST RETURNS
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RED BANK: There's one more week to register (and be eligible for prizes) for the borough's Holiday Home Decorating Contest.
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December 9th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: DeFAZIO TO RETURN AS FIRE CHIEF
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RED BANK: Pete Defazio is slated to begin his third term as chief of the borough's volunteer fire department. He also wore the helmet in 1987 and 1993,
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December 8th, 2016 @ 6pm
RED BANK: TURF HOLDING UP, SAYS SICKELS
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RED BANK: Artificial turf purchased from a manufacturer implicated in a NJ.com investigation is holding up well here, official says.
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December 8th, 2016 @ 11am
RED BANK: Homebuilder Hovnanian reports a smaller loss after a 'challenging' year.
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December 8th, 2016 @ 10am
RED BANK: Fur coat reported stolen and other recent police activity, including three DWI arrests and a man arrested twice in one week.
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December 8th, 2016 @ 9am
RUMSON: ACTOR HELPS MAKE A BOOK ‘SCENE’
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RUMSON: Busy actor Siobhan Fallon Hogan adds 'co-author' to her résumé. She and collaborator Lori Oakes will debut their new kid's book at the Oceanic Library.
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December 8th, 2016 @ 6am
RED BANK: HOOK & LADDER IS SANTA’S HELPER
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RED BANK: Register by December 16, for Navesink Hook and Ladder's big Santa Present Drop-Off event.
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December 8th, 2016 @ 5am
RUMSON: LANGUAGE PANEL THINKS GLOBALLY
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RUMSON: Five special guests lecture a crowd of RFH students on the benefits of learning world languages.
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December 8th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: SITE IDEAL FOR HOTEL, SAYS MENNA
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RED BANK: The VNA is leaving town, leaving behind an empty building, a tax opportunity for the town -- and maybe even a good spot for a hotel, says mayor.
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December 7th, 2016 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FOUR BIG CHRISTMAS EVENTS
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RED BANK: Four big events in Christmas music and dance roll onto the Greater Green in coming days, including The Nutcracker and the Vienna Boys Choir.
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December 7th, 2016 @ 8am
MIDDLETOWN: A weekend-long Live Nativity and more, when the Old Stone Church hosts its first annual Winter Festival.
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December 7th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: DISTRICT CALLS FOR CHARTER END
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RED BANK: District superintendent asks state to reject charter renewal because the borough "can no longer support two separate school districts."
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December 6th, 2016 @ 3pm
RED BANK: BEER GARDEN, VEGAN PLANS OK’D
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RED BANK: Plans for an expansion of Good Karma Café and a beer garden at Birravino won planning board approval Monday night.
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December 6th, 2016 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: STOP-IT COP STOPS AT SCHOOL
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FAIR HAVEN: Knollwood students and parents get the facts on cyber-safety, from an internationally recognized "STOPit Cop."
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December 6th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: STEWART CREW COMING TO TOWN
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RED BANK: Contributors to the Jon Stewart project in the works for HBO are slated to offer an evening of comedy here Thursday. Will Stewart himself show?
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December 5th, 2016 @ 1pm
SHREWSBURY: Police blotter includes eight arrests, all for contempt of court. Come on, people...
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December 5th, 2016 @ 9am
RED BANK: RESTAURANT PLANS ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: A planned beer garden and a vegan restaurant expansion get the attention of the borough planning board Monday night.
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December 5th, 2016 @ 6am
RBR SOCCER GIRLS WIN REFS AWARD
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LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional Girls' Soccer is the only team in their conference to win the Shore Refs Sportsmanship Award.
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December 5th, 2016 @ 5am
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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 ...