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Today's Asbury Park Press reports on the death Tuesday of Fair Haven resident Stephen "Bill" Noglows of Fair Haven. He was 79. Prior to his retirement in 2000, Noglows and his brother owned and operated Monmouth Meats stores in Red...
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April 3rd, 2008 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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William Neumann, a Fair Haven furniture retailer who's faced repeated allegations of failing to deliver thousands of dollars worth of paid-for goods, has agreed to be barred from doing business in New Jersey, today's Star-Ledger reports. Last week, consumer affairs...
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April 1st, 2008 @ 5am
RiverCenter's office is at 20 Broad Street. Last week, Red Bank RiverCenter executive director Nancy Adams presented the business-promotion organization's budget to the borough council. The spending plan, totalling $624,052, is 3.3 percent larger than the 2007 version. (Alas, RiverCenter...
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March 31st, 2008 @ 10am
Among the 16 eateries participating in April's 'Dine Downtown' promo is Sogno Ristorante on Broad Street. By TOM CHESEK Those who cherish a favorite Red Bank restaurant or two probably don't know the half of it. A walk around the...
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March 31st, 2008 @ 7am
Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon. Six months ago, Declan O'Scanlon was a contender for state Assembly fighting political accusations of cronyism for his work on the Fair Haven cell tower deal. You might think that the last thing O'Scanlon would want to...
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March 28th, 2008 @ 6am
Edition number 95 of "Where Have I Seen This?" was no challenge for at least the half-dozen readers who wrote in over the last week. All correctly identified it as a sign outside Marion Security Agency on Bridge Avenue. Marion,...
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March 27th, 2008 @ 9am
A man said by authorities to be a Red Bank resident was indicted today for swindling $161,000 from an investor in an iced tea company that turned out to be bogus, according to an announcement by the New Jersey Attorney...
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March 25th, 2008 @ 4pm
Looking north on Hudson Avenue this morning at 7:55a. After a brief war of the curb, Hudson Avenue homeowners and tenants last night became the latest on the East Side to win resident permits to park their cars. The victory...
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March 25th, 2008 @ 9am
Much as it was for other retailers, the late-2007 holiday shopping season was tough one for Tiffany & Co., which opened a store in Red Bank just as the season was kicking off. But even as its fourth-quarter profit shrank,...
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March 24th, 2008 @ 8am
The joint was jumping before sunset last night as the Downtown (née the Downtown Café) reopened following major renovations to the Red Bank nightspot. Click pix to enlarge. Email this story
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March 21st, 2008 @ 6am
Michael Gilson Jr., 7, gets a kiss from his father after the Chubby's owner won zoning board approval to erect a new restaurant on the West Front Street site. A plan to replace the seen-better-days Chubby's Waterside Café on West...
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March 21st, 2008 @ 6am
SeaStreak, the ferry line that zips commuters to Wall Street and midtown Manhattan from docks in Highlands and Atlantic Highlands, appears to have found a white knight. The four-catamaran line's parent company, Sea Containers America Inc., confirmed today that it...
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March 18th, 2008 @ 2pm
The borough parking lot on White Street, as seen last September. Here's a story that will gladden the hearts of many Red Bank retailers and restaurateurs while no doubt raising hackles in other quarters. The Asbury Park Press is reporting...
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March 18th, 2008 @ 8am
The Downtown Café as seen from outside Red, its sibling establishment, in late January. It's official: nearly two years after shutting its doors for a wholesale makeover, the former Downtown Café plans to reopen this week as The Downtown. In...
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March 17th, 2008 @ 5pm
The Courtyard at Monmouth project, which exists only on paper, is on the block. Little more than a week after he won approval for plan to transform a grubby corner of Red Bank into a little hunk 'o Hoboken, would-be...
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March 13th, 2008 @ 10am
Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises reported its sixth consecutive quarterly loss yesterday, this time a $131 million shortfall that was double the year-prior amount. The publicly traded homebuilder, which operates in 19 states, managed to sell more units in its lastest...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 6am
A plastic shopping bag flutters in a tree on Monmouth Street recently. It's not quite the far-reaching approach that its sponsor, Councilman Mike DuPont, first proposed late last year. But an ordinance that DuPont thinks will enable Red Bank to...
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March 10th, 2008 @ 12pm
Pankaj 'Sunny' Sharma's appeal of Red Bank's revocation of his Leighton Avenue store's liquor license wrapped up near Trenton today without a decision, the Asbury Park Press reports. Moreover, a ruling probably won't be handed down until summer, and whichever...
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March 5th, 2008 @ 4pm
It's crunch time, finally, in the long-delayed effort by Pankaj 'Sunny' Sharma to save his West Side liquor store from a shutdown over a handful of violations involving sales to minors and other offenses. Last June, the Red Bank Borough...
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March 4th, 2008 @ 11am
A view along Monmouth Street of the proposed Courtyard at Monmouth project. The entrance to the underground garage is on West Street, seen at right. An eyesore parcel of Red Bank that went through several development plans and bitter litigation...
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March 4th, 2008 @ 7am
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(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.