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A Rumson woman and her son narrowly escaped catastrophe Thursday when the car she was driving became trapped on the North Jersey Coast Line tracks in Little Silver, according to a report in the Asbury Park Press. Both got safely...
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December 8th, 2006 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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On an unusually blustery day last week, redbankgreen hovered while photographer Michael Marmora worked on his first magazine assignment: shooting the rock band Bedlight for Blue Eyes for the upcoming debut issue of d. magazine, to be published by Red...
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December 7th, 2006 @ 12am
See, kids? This is where having a particular expertise comes in handy. Retromedia Sound Studios owner John Noll used his specialized knowledge in sound technology to identify last week's 'Where' as a picture of a loudspeaker atop 1 Broad Street,...
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December 7th, 2006 @ 12am
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December 6th, 2006 @ 3pm
The Borough Council's trial-like hearing on a series of seven allegations against the liquor license of Best Liquors has been postponed for a month, according to today's Asbury Park Press. The reason: store owner Sunny Sharma's hiring of a new...
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December 6th, 2006 @ 7am
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December 5th, 2006 @ 11pm
The Rumson priest who pleaded guilty to swindling the Holy Cross Roman Catholic parish has been let out of prison after serving fewer than six months of a five-year sentence, the Asbury Park Press reports today. Rev. Joseph W. Hughes,...
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December 5th, 2006 @ 9am
Signals are apparently turning mixed in the real estate market, which is probably good news for sellers who've heard nothing but doom and gloom in recent months. A new report from the good folks at the Otteau Valuation Group in...
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December 4th, 2006 @ 4pm
Eric Ginsberg is at it again. The tireless impressario who brought to life the Red Bank Music Community and its songwriters' workshops and open-mic nights and StreetLife concerts is now bringing the big screen to town. Through the RBMC, Ginsberg...
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December 2nd, 2006 @ 5pm
You're on your way into a restaurant you've been dying to check out, and just as you near the door, it hits you: the cloud of nicotine exhaust you have to pass through thanks to the cigarette junkies huddled against...
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November 30th, 2006 @ 10pm
Life can be pretty frustrating on Tower Hill Avenue near Harding Road. Cars heading west and downhill on Harding often turn onto Tower Hill virtually on two wheels, and then barrel down the narrow street of tidy homes to the...
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November 30th, 2006 @ 12am
Christine Jahnig of Red Bank was the first of several readers to recognize the site of last week's photo, which showed, in her words, "a lovely...formal boxwood maze." The well-tended topiary can be found on Sycamore Avenue in Shrewsbury, just...
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November 30th, 2006 @ 12am
What's with the partial pave jobs on Hudson Avenue and East Bergen Place? Almost two weeks ago, paving contractors laid down a 10-foot wide strip of steamy new asphalt along the north side of East Bergen. At the same time,...
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November 30th, 2006 @ 12am
A year after the shutdown of the Westboro Post Office on Shrewsbury Avenue because of mold contamination, officials have set an estimated reopening date. A postal service spokesman, George Flood, tells redbankgreen that the substation is expected to re-open by...
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November 29th, 2006 @ 11am
The accelerating shift of newspaper content from dead trees to the web will be topic A of a special program this Thursday evening (Nov. 30) at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft. The event, titled "The Changing World of American Journalism,"...
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November 28th, 2006 @ 7pm
No big surprise, but don't look for a Dollar Shoe store to take over the old Garmany space at 105 Broad Street. Owner Larry Garmany tells redbankgreen he's close to an anchor lease deal for the red brick building, which...
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November 27th, 2006 @ 3pm
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November 27th, 2006 @ 11am
"Some people absolutely love Asbury Park," Bob & Elisabeth McKay of the McKay Gallery say in a statement about their next show. "Others remember it fondly as they take great care to drive around it." Artists, of course, are among...
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November 27th, 2006 @ 10am
SOUP, SAUSAGE AND STAYING POWER
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Ten quick questions for Gary Sable, owner and sole employee of That Hot Dog Place, 30 Monmouth Street (next to the Dublin House). Gary’s 54, married, lives in Hazlet and has two grown daughters. Did you have another career before...
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November 24th, 2006 @ 1pm
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November 24th, 2006 @ 10am
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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.
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 ...