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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
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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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
It's a wrap as Debra Johnson arranges final details after closing Victory Market for the final time last Friday. A Red Bank meat business with World War II roots closed its doors Friday after the owners could not agree with...
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June 4th, 2007 @ 2pm
With promotional booths at the Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival going for thousands of dollars, d. Magazine, published by Red Bank photographer Danny Sanchez found an alternative more suited to his budget. He rented out the empty storefront at...
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June 2nd, 2007 @ 10am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Joe Cullity doesn’t like to make a big deal out of his hip injury, and speaks reluctantly about the day he got it — September 11, 2001. "I was lucky I was late for work," he...
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June 1st, 2007 @ 7am
The Red Bank Borough Council has set June 14 as the resumption date of its hearing in the Best Liquors license matter. The hearing, a special session of the council, will begin at 5p. Borough Attorney Tom Hall, who is...
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May 31st, 2007 @ 8am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI What’s a Doc Martens lover to do when he can’t find the styles of the British brand that he wants in the United States? Readers of a certain generation or two may recognize the name. Before...
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May 24th, 2007 @ 7am
Honestly, who among us hasn't embarked on a simple housekeeping task and somehow gotten detoured into a project involving busted sheetrock and mouthfuls of gypsum dust? Maybe that's what happened to Ray Rapcavage. Last week, the president of Ray Rap...
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May 23rd, 2007 @ 4pm
By Linda G. Rastelli In a hearing characterized by polite sparring between lawyers, the Red Bank borough council sat through nearly four hours of testimony in the case against Sunny Sharma and Best Liquors without a decision Tuesday night. No...
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May 22nd, 2007 @ 11pm
After six months of delays, the Borough of Red Bank's administrative law case against Best Liquors will finally happen next Tuesday. That's the plan, at least. At stake for Best Liquors owner Sunny Sharma is his ability to sell beer,...
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May 18th, 2007 @ 10am
Mayor Pasquale Menna lashed out last night at "little juveniles" from out of town whom he blames for recently grafitti-bombing the public library and loitering in front of stores near West Front Street and Maple Avenue. His remarks came amid...
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May 17th, 2007 @ 8am
Those two new electric cars we told you about last week, the ones Red Bank planned to buy to replace the three-wheeled Cushmans used by parking enforcement? It turns out they can't meet the state requirement that they be able...
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May 17th, 2007 @ 6am
The old canopy's gone. So is the pump island. The asphalt's been torn up. The building's painted metal skin has been peeled off. And a tall fence now surrounds the property. (We got our photo by holding our camera overhead.)...
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May 15th, 2007 @ 7am
Say goodbye to those Cushmans. Last month, the Red Bank Borough Council authorized the purchase of two Club Car Carryall 2 electric vehicles from golf-cart seller Vic Gerard Golf Cars. They'll replace a pair of gas-powered Cushman three-wheelers used by...
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May 11th, 2007 @ 8am
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May 10th, 2007 @ 12am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI When you’re redoing a downtown, as rookie Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre is discovering, you can’t please everyone. Exhibit A: the borough’s streetscape plan, which calls for the sidewalks from Memorial Park to Oak Place to...
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May 4th, 2007 @ 7am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Everywhere you look on Monmouth Street, it seems, change is underway. Businesses coming and going. Major alterations. The vendor churn can sometimes seem as bustling as the foot traffic. Red Bank News, the newsstand that’s been...
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May 2nd, 2007 @ 8am
Partyline
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 ...
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 ...