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Ilsa crashes Sam's pity party at the Café Américain in 'Casablanca.' By TOM CHESEK We'll always have Red Bank. Beginning tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5:00p, the Count Basie Theatre kicks off a series of free classic film screenings with Bogart, Bergman...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 12pm
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HEY! That's our DOG! Roddy McDowall with the original Red Bank-bred 'Lassie' in 1943's 'Lassie Come Home.' By TOM CHESEK While redbankgreen applauds the slate of picture shows on display in the Count Basie Theatre's "Take 9 at the Basie:...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 12pm
The special assessments are being collected — and have been since last September. Now, Red Bank RiverCenter is moving to solicit input from business owners in the West Side expansion zone about how those funds might best be spent to...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 10am
Might there be another summer of cocktails on the beach after all? By LINDA G. RASTELLI For the second time in six months, the owners of Donovan's Reef are back to square one in their effort to sell the beachfront...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 6am
The screening committee of the Monmouth County Republicans failed Saturday to select a slate to run for two county freeholder seats open in November, according to the Asbury Park Press. Red Bank Borough Councilman John Curley's still in the running...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 5am
Will John Curley's firebrand personality fly with Monmouth County Republican powerbrokers? The Red Bank councilman will find out tomorrow when he goes before the party's screening committee in a bid to be one of two nominees to run for county...
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February 22nd, 2008 @ 4pm
An architect's rendering of The Bank, the proposed sports bar on the present site of Chubby's. A Zoning Board hearing on the proposal to raze Chubby's Waterside Café and replace it with a new sports bar and restaurant catering to...
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February 22nd, 2008 @ 8am
More than 100 area residents turned out last night at Mahala F. Atchison Elementary School in Tinton Falls last night for a discussion on Gov. Jon Corzine's effort to balance the state budge using steep toll-road fare increases, today's Asbury...
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February 22nd, 2008 @ 6am
The Asbury Park Press today is reporting the landing a harbor seal on a beach at Sandy Hook. It was unclear immediately if the animal was sick, wounded or just taking a breather, but officials were preparing this morning to...
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February 21st, 2008 @ 3pm
Half a dozen readers quickly identified last week's image, which showed an architectural detail from the roofline of 74 Broad Street, at the northwest corner of Monmouth Street. Now the street-level location of a Valley National Bank branch, the building...
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February 21st, 2008 @ 12pm
Red Bank officials appear to be building a case that the Community YMCA may sell its Children's Cultural Center on Monmouth Street only to another educational or cultural non-profit. Otherwise, Mayor Pasquale Menna tells today's Asbury Park Press, the property...
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February 21st, 2008 @ 8am
By TOM CHESEK For a man who quit an established recording career in order to study the fine art of making violins, David Bromberg sure knows how to work a room. A veteran sideman to Dylan, Ringo Starr and Jerry...
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February 20th, 2008 @ 9am
The proposed 2008-2009 budget for Red Bank's primary and middle schools hasn't been set, but Superintendent Laura Morana hints the spending plan will be little changed from last year's, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the article, by reporter Larry...
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February 20th, 2008 @ 7am
By TOM CHESEK The flying saucer descends to the stage of the Vegas Hilton in a swamp-gas riot of dry-ice foggers and gelled lights. Through the actual haze (and the one brought on by the showroom's three-drink minimum), the audience...
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February 19th, 2008 @ 9am
The Bistro's George Lyristis: "You can't always ask somebody else to fix the problem." Business is tough these days for many Red Bank restaurants. And it's not simply a matter of the winter blahs. The economy has soured. Would-be patrons...
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February 19th, 2008 @ 7am
A Jackson Township woman who ran a Lincroft investment advisory firm has been indicted on charges she bilked clients out of $641,000. Zina Martin, 43, was the sole owner and president of Kairos Financial, whose address is given as 331...
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February 19th, 2008 @ 6am
Today's Sunday Star-Ledger has an extensive piece about the black activist journalist T. (Timothy) Thomas Fortune and the effort to save his longtime Red Bank home from the wrecking ball — or, as the article's author puts it, "from predatory...
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February 17th, 2008 @ 11am
A former Red Bank policeman was sentenced to 18 months probation for assaulting a man while on duty shortly after the 2006 fireworks display in town, the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office says in a press release issued late yesterday.Download 021508a.pdf...
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February 16th, 2008 @ 9am
Among the records broken at the Two River Theater in its smash 'Macbeth' run: most students attending one of its plays. Not in the legions Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd In evils to top Macbeth. Well,...
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February 15th, 2008 @ 7am
A string of fatal car crashes involving teens on provisional licenses has given rise to a test program: requiring those drivers to display a golden decal on the rear windows or bumpers of their cars. Students wishing to park their...
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February 15th, 2008 @ 7am
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MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
LONG LIVE LOCAL NEWS!
"Long Live Local News" flags from redbankgreen's 20th anniversary celebration in Marine Park Tuesday prove to be the perfect compliment to s ...
MUMS AND WITCHES
17 Prospect Ave (Photo by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
KAYAKERS CLEAR RIVER JUNK
Partyline photo: "The Navesink Nymphs" clear floating tires from the river.
PAINT IT PURPLE?
Caption: ‘Should it be done purple?’ Perfect day. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
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