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MIDDLETOWN: CONTEMPT ABOUNDS
Recent crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. Teresa Burger, age 34, from Buckingham Circle in Middletown, NJ, arrested on April 9, 2014 byContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: CONTEMPT ABOUNDS"
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April 22nd, 2014 @ 10am
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RED BANK: PLANNERS SPAR OVER FACADES
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A plan by Joe Romanowski to remove the vestibule of his new Goldtinker store on Broad Street won approval. So did Tommy’s Coal-Fired Pizza’s request to permanently enclose seasonal seatingContinue reading "RED BANK: PLANNERS SPAR OVER FACADES"
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April 22nd, 2014 @ 8am
MIDDLETOWN: CHOPIN SPREE
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Pianist Gerd Nowaczyk — pictured at left, with flautist and Monmouth Symphony associate conductor Lucian Rinando — performs a solo concert at Middletown Township Public Library on Tuesday afternoon. “WhoeverContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: CHOPIN SPREE"
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April 21st, 2014 @ 12pm
SEA BRIGHT: BOONDOCKS MAY DOCK HERE
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Kelly McRyan, below, hopes to convert the former auto repair garage above into a takeout seafood restaurant.  (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Red Bank’s Boondocks Fishery may soonContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: BOONDOCKS MAY DOCK HERE"
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April 21st, 2014 @ 11am
The historic business district of Fair Haven, as seen on April 16, 2014. It’s one of America’s great little downtowns, don’t you agree? (Video by Gerda Liebmann. Click to pause.)Continue reading "CLIPPINGS: FOREVER FAIR IN FAIR HAVEN"
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April 21st, 2014 @ 7am
SPRING 2014: ROADSIDE COLOR
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A burst of yellow lit up a bit of Harding Road in Little Silver on Sunday. Monday will be sunny with temperatures reaching about 57 degrees, the National Weather ServiceContinue reading "SPRING 2014: ROADSIDE COLOR"
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April 21st, 2014 @ 5am
RED BANK: GOURMET MAC ‘N CHEESE COMING
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Mac Attack Cheesery plans to take over the Broad Street space now occupied by Boardwalk Burgers. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The restaurantization of downtown Red Bank continues.Continue reading "RED BANK: GOURMET MAC ‘N CHEESE COMING"
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April 18th, 2014 @ 11am
The estranged husband of a Red Bank woman found murdered alongside the Garden State Parkway in 2011 was sentenced to 27 years in prison Thursday, NJ.com reports. Superior Court JudgeContinue reading "RED BANK: WOMAN’S KILLER GETS 27 YEARS"
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April 18th, 2014 @ 9am
RED BANK: MORE ‘TROUBLE,’ BUT WORTH IT
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Brenda Pressley takes center stage as Willetta, a 1950’s African American actress at work on a play-within-a-play, as TROUBLE IN MIND continues through the weekend at Two River Theater. (PhotoContinue reading "RED BANK: MORE ‘TROUBLE,’ BUT WORTH IT"
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April 18th, 2014 @ 9am
4/18: KATHY GRIFFIN LIGHTS UP RED BANK
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Kathy Griffin goes double-deep dish this Friday night, when the flame-haired comic with the celeb-roasting style adds a second standup session to her scheduled gig at the Count Basie.  She’sContinue reading "4/18: KATHY GRIFFIN LIGHTS UP RED BANK"
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April 17th, 2014 @ 12pm
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of April 10 to April 17, 2014. This information is unedited. CRIMES: TheftContinue reading "RED BANK: BOAT ENGINE STOLEN"
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April 17th, 2014 @ 10am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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Can you identify the subject of this week’s Where Have I Seen This? Take a guess! Please send your answer to [email protected]. Last week, you may recall, we showed youContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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April 17th, 2014 @ 7am
Crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Fair Haven Police Department for the period of February 1 through March 31, 2014. 02/08- Rudolph Kastner, Age 50, Rumson, wasContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN CRIME AND ARREST REPORTS"
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April 17th, 2014 @ 7am
RED BANK: NEW LIBRARY TRUSTEES NAMED
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Beth Hanratty, below, was named chairperson of the reconstituted board. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) [Correction: Mayor Menna tells redbankgreen that while Beth Hanratty was appointed toContinue reading "RED BANK: NEW LIBRARY TRUSTEES NAMED"
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April 16th, 2014 @ 7pm
RED BANK: McLOONE GRABS DOWNTOWN SPOT
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Tim McLoone, below, plans to open a yet-to-be-named burger restaurant in the former Murphy Style Grille on Broad Street, above. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHNContinue reading "RED BANK: McLOONE GRABS DOWNTOWN SPOT"
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April 16th, 2014 @ 3pm
RED BANK: REPLICA SHIP TO DOCK IN JUNE
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The Onrust, a replica of the first deck-covered ship built in colonial America, will berth for two days at Marine Park. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD They wereContinue reading "RED BANK: REPLICA SHIP TO DOCK IN JUNE"
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April 16th, 2014 @ 11am
SPRING 2014: A TOO-FAMILIAR CHILL
The National Weather Service was right about that freeze warning, as residents of the Green awoke to find a dusting of snow and scrapable ice on their windshields Wednesday. TheContinue reading "SPRING 2014: A TOO-FAMILIAR CHILL"
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April 16th, 2014 @ 6am
SPRING 2014: FREEZE WARNING? PLEASE, NO…
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Abundant signs of spring to the contrary, the National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning effective from 2 a.m. to 9 a.m. Wednesday. So swaddle your sensitive and early-bloomingContinue reading "SPRING 2014: FREEZE WARNING? PLEASE, NO…"
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April 15th, 2014 @ 4pm
LITTLE SILVER: SHELL TAKES EX-EXXON SPOT
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The former Exxon station at Branch Avenue and Willow Drive in Little Silver, vacant for several years, is about to reopen as a Shell station. Owner Rafi Awan could notContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: SHELL TAKES EX-EXXON SPOT"
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April 15th, 2014 @ 3pm
SEA BRIGHT: MCLOONE’S OK’D TO REBUILD
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McLoone’s Rum Runner in Sea Bright, destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, will be rebuilt at its Ocean Avenue location abutting the Shrewsbury River and reopen before summer 2015, according to aContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: MCLOONE’S OK’D TO REBUILD"
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April 15th, 2014 @ 8am
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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.
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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.