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Samantha 'Sam' Lee at Fair Haven borough hall By LINDA G. RASTELLI Samantha 'Sam' Lee knows from customer service. She's tended the fresh farmhouse cheeses at London luxury purveyor Harrods and assembled gift baskets at Sickles Market. But if Fair...
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December 24th, 2007 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Jim Willis in East Side Park. Jim Willis rolled into town three months ago eager to do some community building. It's what he does. A self-employed 36-year-old techie, Willis spends his workdays knocking down perceived barriers between people and information....
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December 17th, 2007 @ 3pm
For the eight years he's been publishing the Asbury Park-based triCity News, Dan Jacobson has been angling for a dinner invite from Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna. As readers of redbankgreen know, Menna is a foodie who has his own...
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December 14th, 2007 @ 11am
Sorry, the talent in the trailer is strictly no-name. Perhaps you saw all those film-crew vehicles, complete with portable tents and a catering truck, parked outside the Parker Family Health Center on Shrewsbury Avenue today. Well, no, they are not...
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December 13th, 2007 @ 3pm
In recent years, photographers Bob McKay & Elisabeth Koch-McKay have been Red Bank's foremost curators of photographic work, cultivating art that's bold and demure, edgy and comforting, but always transporting. For their newest show at the McKay Imaging gallery on...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 10am
With authorities clamping down tight on information about Monday night's shooting at Montgomery Terrace, details that might normally be available can only be teased out from a rumor mill of sometimes conflicting accounts. The Monmouth County Prosecutor's office, which is...
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November 29th, 2007 @ 8am
Unless there's an arrest of the gunman, authorities don't plan to release any new information soon about the Monday night shooting at Montgomery Terrace, including the names and conditions of the two victims, redbankgreen has learned. The victims, whose names,...
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November 28th, 2007 @ 3pm
Though vastly outspent in her race with incumbent Ellen Karcher for the 12th-district state Senate seat, Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck today landed a major plum: the endorsement of the state's largest newspaper. The Star-Ledger, while noting that the race race "has...
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October 31st, 2007 @ 8am
The race for 12th-district Senate seat continues to get more attention for the accusations flung back and forth between incumbent Ellen Karcher of Marlboro and Red Bank Republican Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck than for any other aspect. In today's Star-Ledger, political...
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October 26th, 2007 @ 11am
There's lots of empty space as Michael Bonney transitions his Monmouth Street shop from a newsstand to a convenience store. By LINDA G. RASTELLI When Michael Bonney bought Red Bank News in May, it seemed the decades-old monument to print...
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September 24th, 2007 @ 8am
Starting next month, Diney's Place/The Children's Cultural Center won't be just for kids anymore. Turns out that investing a ton of money to transform the former Red Bank municipal building and police station into a learning center full of digital...
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September 21st, 2007 @ 7am
A group of undisclosed buyers has made an offer for the historic T. Thomas Fortune house on Drs. Parker Boulevard, the Asbury Park Press reports today. A contract has yet to be signed by the sellers, the paper reports. But...
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August 1st, 2007 @ 7am
It's as Jersey as the Sopranos: the Star-Ledger's Munchmobile, a van with a giant polyurethane wiener on the roof that tours the state every summer in search of the best eats — ice cream, burgers, Italian, seafood, whatever. Well, yesterday...
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July 21st, 2007 @ 12am
The upside, from the glass-is-half-full perspective, is that the new Red Bank Parks & Rec summer guide just now hitting mailboxes contains plenty of listings for events that haven't happened yet. We're talking a full roster of concerts and movies...
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July 17th, 2007 @ 3pm
It's not as bad as it looks. Jared Pienkos of Fair Haven, playing an insurance pitchman, took an extremely slow-mo hood spill as part of spoof video he and some friends filmed Sunday in the parking lot of Red Bank...
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July 3rd, 2007 @ 10am
From beneath layers of paint and grime, a century-and-a-half-old mansion is emerging, soon to be open to the public for the first time in a generation. OK, the 'soon' part is relative, given that the project is a couple of...
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July 2nd, 2007 @ 11am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI OK, let's get right to it: How could she not have known? "I didn't have time to listen to rumors," Dina Matos McGreevey told redbankgreen last night, shortly before she took the floor at a posh...
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July 1st, 2007 @ 2pm
Starting Thursday night, the McKay Gallery will offer a special two-evening exhibit of images by documentary photographer Marc Steiner. Titled "Deenbandhu: Relative of the Poor," the collection follows the work of Father George Kavukatt, a Catholic priest who has ministered...
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June 18th, 2007 @ 6am
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June 14th, 2007 @ 4pm
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
Partyline
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.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.