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Here's an event we're really looking forward to, brought to life by the Freedom Film Society, the people behind the annual Red Bank International Film Festival. On Saturday, Dec. 2, photographer Danny Sanchez will open up his Bridge Avenue studio...
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November 24th, 2006 @ 1am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Terry Gross's National Public Radio interview show, called Fresh Air, could hardly have a more apt name. The variety of fascinating personalities that cycles through her studio at WHYY in Philadelphia is proof that there is an alternative to the...
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November 24th, 2006 @ 1am
Last week's 'Where' showed a a drab, boarded-up shop with eye-catching turquoise trim. We can now reveal that the building is located on Cedar Avenue in Fair Haven. And it seems fitting that the first person to identify it was...
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November 22nd, 2006 @ 11pm
Somewhere along the way, our lives tend to get filled up with all sorts of stuff that we've settled for. Unsatisfying jobs. Unfulfilling relationships. A million little things that crowd out who we want to be. Bill McDonald, a personal...
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November 22nd, 2006 @ 11pm
Apparently, it'll take three feet to fill the big empty shoe left behind by Garmany when it vacated the old post office for its current space in the longtime Steinbach's building last year. The high-end clothing retailer has submitted a...
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November 22nd, 2006 @ 11am
Two weeks after his election, and six weeks before he's to be sworn in, Mayor-elect Pat Menna moved to put his stamp on Red Bank Monday night, introducing a plan to expand the special-assessment business district known as RiverCenter to...
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November 21st, 2006 @ 4pm
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November 21st, 2006 @ 4pm
Existing-home sales in New Jersey plunged nearly 24 percent in the third quarter, according to news from the National Association of Realtors. Nationwide, the decline was more than 12 percent. And yet, median prices in central New Jersey, which includes...
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November 20th, 2006 @ 12pm
Dog trainer Drayton Michaels of Urban Dawgs outside the Broad Street post office with Vegas, a 2-year-old boxer now learning the finer points of canine behavior, if not obedience to signs. E-mail this story
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November 17th, 2006 @ 11am
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November 17th, 2006 @ 10am
Never mind 'Where have I seen this?' The question Kim Sandbach hopes will soon be on everyone's mind is, 'What's That Smell?' Believe it or not, What's That Smell is the name of Sandbach's new business, a fragrance, cosmetics and...
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November 16th, 2006 @ 12am
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November 16th, 2006 @ 12am
More dark news for people trying to sell homes, and for all those businesses dependent on home-sales activity: the number of houses on the market continued to climb locally in the July-through-September period. According to a report issued yesterday by...
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November 16th, 2006 @ 12am
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November 16th, 2006 @ 12am
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November 15th, 2006 @ 12am
Elected officials suddenly went into lips-zipped mode on the topic of Best Liquors last night, asking citizens to refrain from discussing or inquiring about the case of the controversial West Side retailer during the public portion of the borough council's...
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November 14th, 2006 @ 1am
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November 13th, 2006 @ 10am
Click on the image to see larger version. If it exceeds the size of your screen, try saving it to your desktop and then opening it. The season of big, beautiful voices kicks off next Saturday, Nov. 18, with the...
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November 10th, 2006 @ 11am
Kim Sambucci was sitting at her desk at Golf Greens Fore U on Shrewsbury Avenue late last Friday afternoon when she heard “an explosion, like a car crashing into the building.” But it wasn’t a car Sambucci saw when she...
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November 8th, 2006 @ 11pm
Sunny’s back in biz, and dialing up the charm. Sunny Sharma of Best Liquors has his store back online after a brief shutdown for fire code violations. And he’s gone proactive, trying to cool the anger of neighbors who want...
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November 8th, 2006 @ 11pm
Partyline
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 ...