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By TOM CHESEK Even if you don't think of yourself as a frantic foodie, chances are excellent that you're likely to reach for the olive oil any time you make some noise with the pots and pans, be it a...
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November 29th, 2007 @ 12pm
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Thirty-five stores downtown will feature live mannequins from 1 to 4p Sunday as part of an effort by Red Bank RiverCenter, the town's retail promotion organization. Might be fun to go from store to store and test just how well...
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November 23rd, 2007 @ 3pm
Henry Bloom, with Gunning Island in the background. Rumson resident Henry H. Bloom bought a big chunk of Gunning Island in 1988, mainly because he was afraid that somebody would put houses on it and wreck his idyllic view of...
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November 21st, 2007 @ 9am
New Jersey Natural Gas is asking state utilities regulators to approve a 7.5-percent increase in distribution charges, which would boost the average customer's monthly bill by $11.35 a month, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. It's the first time the...
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November 20th, 2007 @ 3pm
A Lincroft rare-coin dealer has brokered the sale of a collection of prototype coins, some hundreds of years old, for $30 million, the Associated Press reported over the weekend. Inclued in the private transaction were about 1,000 coins made between...
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November 19th, 2007 @ 7am
A customer tries on a bracelet at an opening-night reception at Tiffany & Co.'s Broad Street store earlier this month. The Asbury Park Press today pops in on store owners in downtown Red Bank to gauge their feelings about the...
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November 18th, 2007 @ 11am
If any one person outside of Tiffany & Co. is responsible for the jeweler's decision to open a gleaming outpost in downtown Red Bank today, it's Larry Garmany, who has a habit of making high-risk business moves that tend to...
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November 9th, 2007 @ 9am
Restoration Hardware Inc., owner of Red Bank's most prominent national-chain store, is being taken private by company executives in a deal valued at $267 million, according to the news agency Reuters and other reports. The buyout group, which includes private...
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November 8th, 2007 @ 12pm
Love it or loathe it, Tiffany & Co. arrives in Red Bank tomorrow with the opening of a 6,000-square-foot emporium of luxury that caps the downtown's 17-year sprint from economic backwater to one of the most admired in all of...
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November 8th, 2007 @ 12pm
Last week's 'Where' was "too easy" for Mayor Mike Halfacre of Fair Haven. Isn't that what convenience stores are all about? Gary and Joseph Morris mistook it for Juanito's Restaurant on Monmouth Street, and Jenn Woods thought it showed the...
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November 8th, 2007 @ 7am
Hovnanian's Red Bank HQ, as seen from the foot of Maple Avenue in sunnier days. Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises, one of America's largest publicly traded homebuilders, got walloped again in its latest fiscal quarter. Continuing a slide that company official...
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November 6th, 2007 @ 3pm
Getting here is less of a circus for many customers, says Joe Azzolina Sr. By LINDA G. RASTELLI Local supermarket magnate Joe Azzolina Sr. has purchased the Stop & Shop on Newman Springs Road in Shrewsbury and is reconfiguring it...
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November 5th, 2007 @ 8am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Yes, there's a mention of a bar in the concept plan for what a made-over Fair Haven business district might look like. But that's as racy as it gets. Borough residents are emphatic that they're "very...
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November 1st, 2007 @ 2pm
William Neumann, the Fair Haven wicker-furniture dealer who was arrested in March for defrauding 83 customers out of $290,000, has been indicted, the Asbury Park Press reports. The indictment, handed up by a Monmouth County grand jury on Monday, reduced...
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October 31st, 2007 @ 2pm
The Breeders' Cup organization and the owner of the Molly Pitcher Inn and Oyster Point hotels reached a courthouse deal yesterday on hotel rates during this weekend's races at Monmouth Park, the Asbury Park Press reports. A dispute had arisen...
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October 25th, 2007 @ 8am
Fairways that doglegged around cubicles. Water hazards jammed up against the copier. Sand traps among the tax court analyses. The Curchin Open, a miniature golf tourney put on by he accounting firm Curchin Group, had its second edition in the...
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October 24th, 2007 @ 6am
The first 72 hours of 2008 will be busy ones for the critters at Fins and Feathers, a pet store at the corner of Monmouth Street and Maple Avenue. They'll be hopping, flying and skittering a couple of hundred yards...
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October 22nd, 2007 @ 8am
The owner of the Metropolitan condo complex now under construction on Wallace Street has acquired the Broad Street home of Murphy Style Grill, redbankgreen has learned. Onyx Equities, a real estate investment firm based in Woodbridge, completed the $3 million...
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October 19th, 2007 @ 8am
Today's Asbury Park Press reports that the SeaStreak ferry service from Atlantic Highlands and Highlands to Manhattan may be jeopardized by the sale of the service's four vessels to the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago. From the report, by...
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October 5th, 2007 @ 8am
Its signs, and tiny cars, may have seemed ubiquitous. And the basic idea — transacting home sales at commission rates lower than those typically offered by real estate brokers — seemed like a winner. But local upstart Foxtons is sputtering...
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September 27th, 2007 @ 10am
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SNEAKERS OVER BROAD
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sneakers hanging from the overhead wires on Broad Street.
PIANO TRASHED
Left out to take at 83 River Street. Property owner is a touring musician. Studio and home. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris H ...
FALL COLORS IN RED BANK
redbankgreen's Partyline captures peaking fall foliage on a Red Bank street corner.
FALL AT THE COURTS OF RED BANK
On the Partyline: stunning foliage at Red Bank's "medieval office park."
WALK FOR DEMOCRACY
The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center led a "Walk for Democracy" Sunday from Riverside Gardens Park to the cultral center on Drs. James Park ...
Go big or go home
On the redbankgreen Partyline: Gourd display at Lighthouse on its penultimate night of the season.
MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
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