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Rumson billionaire Mickey Gooch and his partners are suing a former employee of their Wall Street brokerage for allegedly poaching 22 staffers while still at the firm, the Asbury Park Press reports. In their suit against Donald Fewer of Colts...
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June 18th, 2008 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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From Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre's blog, re tonight's borough council meeting: JCP&L will be at our meeting Monday. They are going to attempt a dog and pony show about heat waves and trees hanging over wires. It ought to...
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June 16th, 2008 @ 6am
Bob Sickles Bob Sickles and some of his employees from Sickles Farm Market found themselves on a television sound stage in the Chelsea section of Manhattan a couple of months back when who should walk in but Martha Stewart. Before...
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June 13th, 2008 @ 6am
File photo of the Verizon building at 183 Broad Street, Red Bank. A proposed settlement of a tax appeal on Verizon New Jersey's Broad Street switching station — a deal that got derailed last December amid questions about an apparent...
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June 9th, 2008 @ 7am
By SUE MORGAN Never mind that 'farewell forever' send-off held last year at Donovan’s Reef. The legendary Sea Bright landmark is sticking around and kicking up sand a bit longer. Today's lackluster real estate market has benefited regulars of the...
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June 6th, 2008 @ 6am
Ponceno Records, scene of the December robbery and stabbing. Two young Bronx men have been sentenced to prison terms for their roles in last December's robbery of Ponceno Records on Shrewsbury Avenue, which left the store's owner bound and bleeding...
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June 4th, 2008 @ 11pm
The company's headquarters overlooking the Navesink River. Red Bank-based national homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises saw its second-quarter losses increase elevenfold from last year as land valuations and revenues plunged again amid what Dow Jones calls "the worst housing downturn since the...
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June 4th, 2008 @ 7am
Today's Asbury Park Press pops in at Fair Haven Hardware for a look at what keeps the 55-year-old business going in an era when Home Depot, Lowe's and and other big-box chains have all but eliminated stores its size. Owner...
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June 3rd, 2008 @ 6am
Harry's, in a photo taken in February. Harry's Lobster House in Sea Bright is in bankruptcy, trying to stave off a sale of its assets by state tax officials, and a story in Sunday's Asbury Park Press business section attempts...
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June 2nd, 2008 @ 7am
First robin's-egg-blue nest on the left: the future home of Pierre Deux. The Red Bank-area home furnishings market is about to get a touch of provincial France — and landlord Larry Garmany is about to make a sweetheart match for...
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May 30th, 2008 @ 11am
Councilwoman Grace Cangemi says residents should have warnings before nearby hydrants are flushed, resulting in discolored water flowing through taps. Some highlights from last night's bimonthly meeting of the Red Bank council: TEACHERS OF THE YEAR: In addition to primary...
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May 28th, 2008 @ 9am
There's been little formal notice to the public, but word of a plan to close the Fair Haven post office at 4p on weekdays is proving about as agreeable to local residents and business owners as the taste of envelope...
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May 15th, 2008 @ 7am
The R-FH Euro challengers: from left, Sam Wilson, Robbie Trocchia, Margot Keale, Steven Fuschetti and Jennifer Lapp. If you think understanding the U.S. economy is a brain-buster, try overlaying its complexity with currency exchange rates, European history and social trends...
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May 12th, 2008 @ 2pm
The kind of parade George Bowden dreams of: scads of bunting throughout town, with perhaps a giant balloon strapped to the roof of a motorcar, as seen in this undated photo from Helen C. Phillips' "Red Bank on the Navesink."...
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May 9th, 2008 @ 9am
A car gets powerwashed by an unseen employee at Nissan World of Red Bank on Newman Springs Road late yesterday afternoon. Some of us may be longing for a little spritz ourselves today. The weatherman says temps will peak near...
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May 6th, 2008 @ 6am
Hovnanian Enterprises says it is tripling its forecast for positive cash flow this year to $300 million from earlier "guidance" given to investors. The announcement came with this morning's report by the publicly traded homebuilder, based here in Red Bank,...
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May 5th, 2008 @ 6am
Mannequins in the window of retrowear emporium Backward Glances are ready for their closeups as the annual "Paint the Town Pink" breast cancer awareness effort nears its Sunday kickoff in downtown Red Bank. Meanwhile, Courtney Hall, below left, of Fair...
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May 2nd, 2008 @ 6am
Mitchell Johnson's sun-drenched seashore village views are spotlighted at Laurel Tracey Gallery as nine Red Bank galleries team up to present Artwalk event this Saturday. By TOM CHESEK An "Art Walk" can be a tricky thing; a study in dueling...
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May 1st, 2008 @ 7am
Jim Frechette in his Shrewsbury Avenue workshop. (Photos by Jim Willis) Longtime readers of redbankgreen — or those who've discovered the pleasure of exploring our archive — may recognize the name Jim Frechette. When we first encountered him, Frechette was...
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April 30th, 2008 @ 9am
Bob Sickles Sr. riding high on his 1948 John Deere MT tractor. Eighty years old, and with a still-thick crop of hair, Bob Sickles Sr. sits at his son Bob's desk and picks through a boxful of documents in his...
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April 23rd, 2008 @ 6am
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STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(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 ...