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Eight-year-old Maddy Ward writes her name on the wall of the theater this morning as a four-month renovation got underway. The scaffolding was up and an access hole had already been cut in the lobby wall as the Count Basie...
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June 30th, 2008 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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By TOM CHESEK Well, that was certainly the summer that was: the season of beach badges, clam shooters and Met meltdowns is barely a week old, but over at the Count Basie Theatre it's a time to shut off the...
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June 27th, 2008 @ 10am
The Fab Faux put a faux finish on the Count Basie's season of shows at Saturday's sold-out fundraiser. By TOM CHESEK Heading into a four-month, multimillion-dollar refurbishing, the Count Basie Theatre pulls the plug on summer shows this weekend with...
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June 27th, 2008 @ 8am
Some shots from last night's Tiki Party at the Red Bank Elks Club overlooking the Navesink. Organized by Red Bank RiverCenter, the annual event raises funds to pay for the lights and decorations on display downtown at Christmastime. Email this...
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June 26th, 2008 @ 8am
John Astin, haunted by his famously macabre characterizations Gomez Addams and Edgar Allan Poe. The actor visits the area this week for a pair of special appearances. (Recent photo by David Colwell) By TOM CHESEK Who wouldn't want to be...
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June 25th, 2008 @ 7am
Yes, Thorsten Veblen is surely rolling in his grave. But you know what? He's been spinning for years. One more taste of the Hamilton Jewelers-sponsored fleet of Ferraris event in downtown Red Bank on Sunday isn't going to significantly boost...
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June 24th, 2008 @ 2pm
Elmer Jackson, left, and his son, Jeff, on their arrival in Utah. (Photos by Tim Hathaway) Last week saw some ups and downs for Red Bank's intrepid cross-country bikers, Elmer and Jeff Jackson. Both father and son had some serious...
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June 24th, 2008 @ 8am
A fleet of Ferraris rolled into downtown Red Bank yesterday as part of a fundraiser sponsored by Hamilton Jewelers, much to the delight of car lovers. Email this story
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June 23rd, 2008 @ 10am
Here they come, parking guaranteed: some six dozen Ferraris are due to assemble on Broad Street Sunday as part of a private event hosted by Hamilton Jewelers. By TOM CHESEK It's a delicate dance, this business of securing a primo...
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June 19th, 2008 @ 9am
The facade of the small building next door to the theater was the last piece to go; now there's just a hole in the ground. (Facade photo courtesy of Wendy Spencer) A small, ivy-swaddled office building that stood next door...
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June 19th, 2008 @ 6am
A short, simple profile on video by our pal Pim Van Hemmen of Fair Haven. Pim's a staffer at the Star-Ledger, which owns TVJersey, where this piece was posted. Email this story
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June 18th, 2008 @ 1pm
Scenes from the 15th running of the George Sheehan Classic in downtown Red Bank Saturday. Click thumbnails to enlarge. Race results are here. Email this story
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June 16th, 2008 @ 3pm
The last pieces of the race timing equipment being dismantled at 10:15a; race director Phil Hinck, right. It may not be entirely disruption-free. There was, for example, the matter of the woman in labor attempting to reach Riverview Medical Center...
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June 16th, 2008 @ 9am
Some of the torsos seen at the finish line in 2006. For the 15th time since it was moved from Asbury Park, shortened to a five-miler and re-christened, the George Sheehan Classic is set to take over Red Bank's downtown...
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June 13th, 2008 @ 6am
A milestone passed enroute to Nevada. (Photo by Tim Hathaway) After a two-day layover forced by illness, father and son Elmer and Jeff Jackson were back in the saddle this week, topping their first mountain and crossing their first state...
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June 12th, 2008 @ 11am
Runners in the 2007 race take the first turn, at Broad Street and East Bergen Place. Below, a runner celebrates a mighty finish. Upon his passing in 1993, Dr. George Sheehan was eulogized by President Bill Clinton as "the Philosopher...
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June 12th, 2008 @ 8am
A 22-year-old River Street man shot and killed himself at the Red Bank Primary School after calling police to say he was suicidal last night, authorities say. Peter Warshaw, first assistant Monmouth County prosecutor, tells the Asbury Park Press that...
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June 10th, 2008 @ 5pm
Steep elevations and heat proved to be major challenges in the first week of Elmer and Jeff Jackson's cross-country bike ride. At left, Jeff copes with fatigue. Elmer and Jeff Jackson's 'No Regrets' fundraising bike ride across America was slowed...
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June 9th, 2008 @ 8am
Elmer and Jeff Jackson at the fog-wrapped Golden Gate Bridge as they prepared to start their ride yesterday. (Photos by Tim Hathaway.) The father-and-son pair Elmer and Jeff Jackson completed the first 20 miles yesterday of what we're now told...
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June 4th, 2008 @ 1pm
Elmer Jackson poses at left with Kevin the UPS guy and the bikes that finally arrived in San Francisco Monday. In photo above, that's Jeff Jackson in foreground with, from left, Ron (no last name available), Elmer, Elmer's sister, Joyce...
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June 3rd, 2008 @ 6pm
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.