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Taking a lesson from art gallery openings, a Broad Street jewelry store is planning to bring a party atmosphere to nighttime shopping this summer with the addition of in-store live music, food and special events. Hamilton Jewelers is hosting a...
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July 17th, 2007 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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The front in the battle between the Borough of Red Bank and Best Liquors shifts to Trenton later this month, when the state Alcoholic Beverage Control division will decide "whether there is an overriding public interest" in immediately terminating the...
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July 17th, 2007 @ 7am
A rumor that billionaire investor Warren Buffett was buying shares of Hovnanian Enterprises lifted the Red Bank-based homebuilder's shares 12 percent last Friday. But so far today, the shares, while up, aren't going nuts. According to BigCharts, the shares were...
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July 16th, 2007 @ 10am
Andrew Gennusa was just 21 years old when he and his brother, Jason, founded Manhattan Bagel Co. with a single store in in a Middlesex County strip mall. It turned out to be a the start of a heady ride....
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July 13th, 2007 @ 9am
Virginia Bauer, who rallied Congresss to enact tax breaks for families of Sept. 11, 2001 victims after her husband died in the attack, is leaving her post as state Commerce secretary to take a job with the real estate firm...
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July 12th, 2007 @ 7am
Two months after it shot down a request by some business owners to preserve brick sidewalks in the downtown district, Fair Haven's Borough Council is now determined to replace a stretch of faux-brick pavers in front of nearby Memorial Park...
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July 11th, 2007 @ 12pm
Last week's 'Where' turned out to be a twin, or maybe a triplet. A number of readers were quite certain that the outdoor bays full of decorative gravel and mulch shown in the photo were at Ryser's Landscape Supply on...
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July 5th, 2007 @ 12pm
Today's Asbury Park Press business section has a profile of Ellen D'Amore, proprietor of Soapmarket on Monmouth Street. In the article, D'Amore recounts how, after working 20 years as a textile designer in the garment industry, she longed to create...
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July 5th, 2007 @ 12pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI In what could be the start of a long process, Best Liquors' owner Sunny Sharma has begun appealing his case to the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control division in an effort to block the borough of Red...
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July 1st, 2007 @ 2pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI What do you do if you're out on the town and you realize you've had one too many? You know you shouldn't get behind the wheel. You could call a cab, but your car is sitting...
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June 29th, 2007 @ 7am
Rumson resident Zuhdi Karagjozi, founder of Kara Homes, has been bounced from the company as part of a reorganization plan, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The name of the company has also been de-Kara-ed. It will now be called...
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June 28th, 2007 @ 1pm
You can almost picture the scene: the folks at the ad agency for 7-11 gathered in a midtown Manhattan conference room, hashing out ways to promote the company's Red Bank store at a time when the biggest crowd of the...
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June 26th, 2007 @ 4pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Amid the scraps of one retailer's failed dream, an astonishing leap of trust took place took place on Monmouth Street Thursday, and a new business venture appears to have been born. Two women bidding for the...
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June 22nd, 2007 @ 8am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI In a sweeping show of bipartisanship, the Red Bank Borough Council this evening voted not to renew the alcohol distribution license of Best Liquors, the packaged goods store on Leighton Avenue that last year became a...
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June 21st, 2007 @ 7pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI With Asian, Italian and vegetarian (to name a few) influences, the Eurasian Eatery has long managed to defy categorization. It's not vegetarian, exactly, though vegetarian dishes account for 70 percent of the menu, making it a...
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June 21st, 2007 @ 9am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Red Bank's legal offensive against the controversial Best Liquors store on Leighton Avenue is the economic equivalent of a 'death penalty' case, its lawyer argued Thursday night at the conclusion of a three-hour hearing. The session...
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June 14th, 2007 @ 11pm
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June 12th, 2007 @ 10am
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June 12th, 2007 @ 10am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Back when he had water rights on the Navesink, marine engineer Rik van Hemmen would paddle a homemade canoe to work in the summer, thus combining three of his many passions — engineering, wooden boats, and...
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June 7th, 2007 @ 9am
Word on the street is that the Colmorgen boys, Bob & Carl, were running all over town on hunches as they tried to figure out where they'd seen last week's location. In which case Bob, who lives in Eatontown, probably...
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June 6th, 2007 @ 11pm
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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.