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It's crunch time, fellow proscrastinators. But if the thought of Christmas shopping this weekend leaves you looking a little like Tootsie and Twinkle here, don't despair. A quick spin through downtown Red Bank is all it takes to start you...
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December 21st, 2007 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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December 20th, 2007 @ 7am
Mayor Pasquale Menna may live to regret his pledge to axe borough health benefits for himself and future mayors. Last night, in what appeared to be an off-the-cuff retort, Menna said he would run the George Sheehan Classic, a somewhat...
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December 20th, 2007 @ 6am
Francis Ford Coppola directing 'Youth Without Youth,' which premieres at the Clearview Thursday night in a benefit for the Monmouth County Arts Alliance. By TOM CHESEK WINE! It's managed to play a part in the late careers of many a...
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December 13th, 2007 @ 9am
By TOM CHESEK The spirits have been restless of late over at Two River Theater, first during October's psych-out thrill ride "The Charlatan's Seance," then in the massive preparations for their upcoming Grand Guignol take on Shakespeare's bloody and accursed...
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December 7th, 2007 @ 9am
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
Several dozen families turned out for a sunset holiday tree lighting at the pocket park at the corner of Shrewsbury Avenue and Drs. James Parker Boulevard on Saturday. Click to enlarge individual shots. Email this story
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December 3rd, 2007 @ 6am
Friday night's Holiday Express concert and tree-lighting event on Broad and Monmouth streets featured bagpipers, hot chocolate and a wandering Mrs. Claus amid the throngs of people bundled up against temperatures in the mid-30s. Click to enlarge individual shots. Email...
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November 26th, 2007 @ 6am
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
Members of the Harford, Bender, Mortimer and O'Connor families gathered at the Red Bank Middle School yesterday for their annual touch football game, which only on occasion looks more like a tackle game. Email this photo
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November 23rd, 2007 @ 8am
"It," of course, is the holiday season, which starts hereabouts on Friday evening, not long after the leftovers from Thanksgiving have begun to chill in the fridge. This is one of Red Bank's big events, drawing thousands of townspeople and...
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November 21st, 2007 @ 12pm
The books are out of storage, free of dust and are being returned to their shelves. Now, all that remains is a short punchlist of renovation items, plus the logistics of getting the phones re-installed and the return of books...
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November 19th, 2007 @ 11am
What's the difference between racquetball and squash? For starters, says Francis Odeh, "Racquetball chases you all over the place, but in squash, you chase the ball." In racquetball, the ball is bouncier and moves faster, and you can play the...
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November 16th, 2007 @ 7am
Ted Jeremenko is a visual artist whose work exudes a meticulous craftsmanship. Ditto for Nick Berger. Both ponder people-free American landscapes that evoke a sense of something lost, or quickly vanishing, to the great detriment of our culture. Both are...
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November 15th, 2007 @ 11am
The Red Bank Veterans' Monument at Monmouth Street and Drummond Place, shortly after a Veterans' Day wreath-laying ceremony yesterday. The holiday is celebrated today; post offices are closed, so there will be no regular mail delivery. State and local government...
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November 12th, 2007 @ 6am
Meryl Blinder, a painter from Brookline, Massachussetts, brings a collection of her works to Church Street Garden & Home in Little Silver in a show that opens tonight with a reception from 5 to 8p. An open house is scheduled...
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November 2nd, 2007 @ 8am
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November 1st, 2007 @ 7am
Mayor Pasquale Menna has picked an executive at Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises to chair the annual KaBoom Fireworks on the Navesink committee. His pick: Peter Reinhart, a borough resident who's senior vice president and general counsel at the publicly traded...
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October 31st, 2007 @ 3pm
Mark Kseniak of Atlantic Highlands is no purist when it comes to photography. An illustrator by trade, he has no compunction about altering images for effect. "I capture images, and with those images, I create my vision of how I...
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October 25th, 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
Partyline
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.
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 ...