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The Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival kicked off to a terrific start Friday night before a light rain rolled in at about 9p during Billy Hector's headline show. Red Bank's own Chuck Lambert Band, above, stirred the festival to...
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June 2nd, 2007 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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With promotional booths at the Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival going for thousands of dollars, d. Magazine, published by Red Bank photographer Danny Sanchez found an alternative more suited to his budget. He rented out the empty storefront at...
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June 2nd, 2007 @ 10am
The Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival might be forgiven for having one monster case of the blues. In recent years, it's been battered financially and encountered its fair share of literally stormy weather. Yet the people who pull it...
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June 1st, 2007 @ 11am
If these jiggly bottles look familiar, it may be that you saw them when redbankgreen debuted, one year ago today. Or perhaps you came across them while dumpster-diving our archive sometime afterward. (Hey, it's perfectly sanitary, and a diverting way...
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June 1st, 2007 @ 7am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Joe Cullity doesn’t like to make a big deal out of his hip injury, and speaks reluctantly about the day he got it — September 11, 2001. "I was lucky I was late for work," he...
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June 1st, 2007 @ 7am
"Frustrated" by a housing market that keeps moving in the wrong direction, Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises yesterday reported its third consecutive quarterly loss. As a result, Moody's Investors Services cut its ratings on Hovnanian debt issues, saying the homebuilder's cash...
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June 1st, 2007 @ 1am
As was widely expected, Gov. Jon Corzine will nominate state Attorney General Stuart Rabner to succeed retiring Supreme Court Chief Justice James Zazzali on Monday, according to the Star-Ledger The newspaper cites three officials familiar with Corzine's plans as the...
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May 31st, 2007 @ 11am
The Red Bank Borough Council has set June 14 as the resumption date of its hearing in the Best Liquors license matter. The hearing, a special session of the council, will begin at 5p. Borough Attorney Tom Hall, who is...
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May 31st, 2007 @ 8am
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May 31st, 2007 @ 7am
That report from earlier this week of pet Chihuahua named Lola in Middletown having been run down and killed by coyotes appears to have had some errors, the Star-Ledger says today. The dog was not a Chihuahua but a fox...
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May 31st, 2007 @ 7am
Fourteen-year-old Little Silver resident Robert Hale, who made it to the fourth round of the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee before tripping up yesterday, is a bit relieved to now have that dictionary off his back, today's Asbury Park Press...
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May 31st, 2007 @ 7am
Bob Colmorgen did it again, identifying last week's shot as a boarded-up door at the former Anderson Brothers cold-storage warehouse at Monmouth Street and Bridge Avenue. Bob, a longtime Red Bank fireman in who continues to volunteer though he now...
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May 31st, 2007 @ 1am
Usually, when a chief financial officer is in the news, you're talking crisis. Think Enron. Think WorldCom. Think Borough of Red Bank last August. That's when things kind of blew up at Borough Hall, with the disclosure that freshly-resigned CFO...
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May 30th, 2007 @ 12pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Being a freshman is hard, says Red Bank Regional ninth-grader Jamar Berry. Coming from the cozy confines of the Red Bank Charter School, "it took me a long while to adapt," Berry says. "I'm doing good...
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May 30th, 2007 @ 6am
After a five-day grace period, Sea Bright police have begun ticketing motorists for exceeding new speed limits just north and south of the downtown, the Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: Police today issued 10 speeding tickets during the...
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May 29th, 2007 @ 2pm
A pet Chihuahua was chased down and killed by coyotes early this morning in Middletown, according to a report today by the Asbury Park Press. In the continuing drama over the wild canines, Middletown authorities said at least two canines...
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May 29th, 2007 @ 12pm
At yesterday's Memorial Day send-off for 87 reservists attached to the Red Bank headquarters of the 6th Motor Transport Battallion, there was little talk of recent polls showing that Americans have soured on the Iraq war. Nor was there much...
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May 29th, 2007 @ 9am
Considering its dire implications, the news earlier this month that a Red Bank house had been had been designated one of New Jersey's 10 most endangered historic sites was oddly encouraging to a near-octagenarian with a weatherbeaten voice and fu...
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May 25th, 2007 @ 6am
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May 24th, 2007 @ 8am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI What’s a Doc Martens lover to do when he can’t find the styles of the British brand that he wants in the United States? Readers of a certain generation or two may recognize the name. Before...
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May 24th, 2007 @ 7am
Partyline
(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.