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RiverCenter's Tiki Party at the Elks Lodge Wednesday night took place under perfect weather conditions and drew the biggest-ever crowd to the annual bash, organizers said. Though the final tally wasn't yet available, it was also thought to have raised...
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June 22nd, 2007 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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By LINDA G. RASTELLI In a sweeping show of bipartisanship, the Red Bank Borough Council this evening voted not to renew the alcohol distribution license of Best Liquors, the packaged goods store on Leighton Avenue that last year became a...
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June 21st, 2007 @ 7pm
>Contact the Count Basie Theater for ticket info. Email this item
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June 21st, 2007 @ 12pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Coyotes are probably here to stay in New Jersey, Department of Environmental Protection officials told about 100 people at a two-hour information meeting in Middletown last night. But the recent coyote attacks on humans are "an...
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June 21st, 2007 @ 11am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI With Asian, Italian and vegetarian (to name a few) influences, the Eurasian Eatery has long managed to defy categorization. It's not vegetarian, exactly, though vegetarian dishes account for 70 percent of the menu, making it a...
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June 21st, 2007 @ 9am
Gotta love those Colmorgen boys, right? The white-hot streak that Bob & Carl have been on in recent months is rather impressive, one must admit. It continued when they turned in the only entry that correctly identified last week's 'Where'...
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June 21st, 2007 @ 1am
Red Bank Police have linked a man they arrested last week with five early-morning burglaries on the East Side. Mauro Vasquez-Galvan, 26, of East Front Street, is being held in the Monmouth County Jail on $135,000 bail following his arrest...
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June 20th, 2007 @ 5pm
Preservation Red Bank, a private-sector organization that works to allow old buildings to keep getting older, will hold its annual meeting this Sunday in one of the borough's oldest — a place that all but creaks with character. The group...
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June 20th, 2007 @ 10am
This week's Holmdel Independent has a delicious story about the owner of split-level house in the New Monmouth section who claims his property is entitled to a tax exemption because he has turned it into a monastery. Sixty-three-year-old Raymond Bertolette,...
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June 20th, 2007 @ 6am
Faces, fashions and flavors from around the world were on display last Saturday night at the Red Bank Primary School for the annual International Night, and there wasn't an empty seat in the house.
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June 19th, 2007 @ 4pm
Photos from Saturday's George Sheehan Classic 2007 race. Check out the race website for results by the numbers. Email this feature item
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June 19th, 2007 @ 2pm
Starting Thursday night, the McKay Gallery will offer a special two-evening exhibit of images by documentary photographer Marc Steiner. Titled "Deenbandhu: Relative of the Poor," the collection follows the work of Father George Kavukatt, a Catholic priest who has ministered...
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June 18th, 2007 @ 6am
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June 15th, 2007 @ 7am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Red Bank's legal offensive against the controversial Best Liquors store on Leighton Avenue is the economic equivalent of a 'death penalty' case, its lawyer argued Thursday night at the conclusion of a three-hour hearing. The session...
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June 14th, 2007 @ 11pm
For more information, visit the production company's website for Snake Hill. Email this item
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June 14th, 2007 @ 4pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI First came the Disney Channel movie 'High School Musical' in January, 2006. Then the video and the soundtrack broke sales records, giving rise to a concert tour and an ice show. 'High School Musical 2,' the...
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June 14th, 2007 @ 7am
Reader Ernest Anemone was the first to get last week's not too obscure pic, which showed a detail of the St. Nicholas Orthodox Church on at Pearl and Wall Streets. At one time, the structure was the home of the...
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June 14th, 2007 @ 7am
In what has to be one of the most bizarre court filings ever made by a former assistant county prosecutor and governor, Jim McGreevey is now saying his ex-wife's tell-all book failed to sell in part because of the "inappropriate...
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June 13th, 2007 @ 5pm
The Asbury Park Press is reporting that a coyote was struck by a car in Middletown this morning and put down on the scene due to its injuries. From the posting: A motorist reported about 6:10 a.m. today finding a...
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June 13th, 2007 @ 12pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Although everyone who spoke at a Fair Haven public hearing on a proposed tree-protection ordinance said they supported the idea of one, the one on the table Monday night was divisive. A self-proclaimed "tree guy" who...
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June 13th, 2007 @ 5am
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(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
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.