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Grace Cangemi at home on Rector Place. On Nov. 4, Red Bank voters will have four ballot choices for two seats on the borough council, now composed of four Democrats and two Republicans. Both open seats, by happenstance, are held...
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October 23rd, 2008 @ 9am
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Juanita Lewis at home on Shrewsbury Avenue. On Nov. 4, Red Bank voters will have four ballot choices for two seats on the borough council, now composed of four Democrats and two Republicans. Both open seats, by happenstance, are held...
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 11am
John Tyler Jr. at home on Leighton Avenue with the family dog, Goldie. On Nov. 4, Red Bank voters will have four ballot choices for two seats on the borough council, now composed of four Democrats and two Republicans. Both...
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October 21st, 2008 @ 10am
Ed Zipprich at home on River Road. On Nov. 4, Red Bank voters will have four ballot choices for two seats on the borough council, now composed of four Democrats and two Republicans. Both open seats, by happenstance, are held...
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October 20th, 2008 @ 9am
Inspired in seemingly equal parts by Karl Marx, Woody Guthrie and the Clash, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg has cut a singular path through the world of popular music. On Sunday, the iconoclastic guitar slinger from Barking, England brings his axe and...
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October 16th, 2008 @ 12pm
Six months after the death of the woman who founded it, Norma Todd's Lunch Break has named a new executive director. The volunteer outfit on Drs. Parker Boulevard in Red Bank that provides a hot meal a day to anyone...
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October 15th, 2008 @ 7am
Incumbent Republican Grace Cangemi, left, and running mate John Tyler Jr., right square off against Ed Zipprich and Juanita Lewis, center, at next week's candidates' forum. (Click to enlarge) Big night for the politically tuned-in next Wednesday — particularly those...
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October 9th, 2008 @ 3pm
A Red Bank man was among three Monmouth County residents indicted yesterday in an alleged attempt to defraud mortgage lenders of $4 million, the Asbury Park Press reports. Thirty-six-year-old Kevin Deickman of Red Bank — no street address given —...
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October 8th, 2008 @ 6am
A 22-year-year-old championship swimmer died early Sunday while on a visit to Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., according to Lancasteronline. The cause of his death remains a mystery, the newspaper reports. From the article: Police were called to...
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October 7th, 2008 @ 1pm
Gilda Rogers in her new coffeehouse/bookstore on Shrewsbury Avenue. Gilda Rogers wants to get conversations started — real conversations, about politics, race, sexuality, whatever it is that divides people. So she's started a new bookstore called Frank Talk Art Bistro...
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October 7th, 2008 @ 8am
Alan Placer on what used be called the roof but he now calls the "third floor" of Hobbymasters — the floor that makes money from the sun. The solar panels are all in, and by this time next week, Arlene...
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October 3rd, 2008 @ 2pm
Ahh, that first, hot cup of coffee. Not just the first of the day; the first of one's life. Bob Henry recalls losing his coffee virginity, and how that experience led, decades later, to his manning the bean counter at...
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October 2nd, 2008 @ 7am
"It's something that affects all of us. It's not just a Wall Street bailout," says Jan Gardiner, of Locust. Today's Washington Post reports the results of a poll that finds voters deeply divided over the terms of the government's $700...
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October 1st, 2008 @ 10am
Longtime redbankgreen readers may recall our feature some 17 months ago about Tinton Falls Councilman Mike Skudera's push for better use of the web by municipal governments. First of all, he wanted those that weren't on the Internet to build...
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September 30th, 2008 @ 8am
Himself, at the Count Basie Theatre in May. The NFL has confirmed that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play the halftime show at the Super Bowl on Feb. 1. The show had been rumored since a report...
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September 29th, 2008 @ 8am
Fans of former New York Giants tight end Mark Bavaro huddled under a tent in the rain, clutching football jerseys, helmets and, oh yeah, his new novel during a signing event at River Road Books in Fair Haven on Saturday....
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September 29th, 2008 @ 7am
Purposeful pastor Lenny Liebman working the crowd on Broad Street after the 2007 Red Bank fireworks. Harnessing the popularity of a longtime best-seller, four Red Bank churches are getting together next month to jointly offer sermons and discussions of 'The...
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September 26th, 2008 @ 12pm
The first-floor dining room will be named for T.J. McMahon, right, seen in a Danny Sanchez photo. The Dublin House, housed in a venerable old Monmouth Street structure that's been going through major rehabilitation over the past several years, will...
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September 24th, 2008 @ 8am
A day in the sunshine preceded an evening of awards at the I Build, U-Build We Build a Better Community Family Day at Red Bank's Count Basie Park on Saturday. Honorees included Larry Hamm, a human rights activist in Newark;...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 6am
A Middletown woman has a date in muncipal court next month on disorderly persons charges that she abandoned three gerbils and a hamster in the woods, the Asbury Park Press reports. If found guilty, she faces up to $8,000 in...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 11am
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SNEAKERS OVER BROAD
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sneakers hanging from the overhead wires on Broad Street.
PIANO TRASHED
Left out to take at 83 River Street. Property owner is a touring musician. Studio and home. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris H ...
FALL COLORS IN RED BANK
redbankgreen's Partyline captures peaking fall foliage on a Red Bank street corner.
FALL AT THE COURTS OF RED BANK
On the Partyline: stunning foliage at Red Bank's "medieval office park."
WALK FOR DEMOCRACY
The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center led a "Walk for Democracy" Sunday from Riverside Gardens Park to the cultral center on Drs. James Park ...
Go big or go home
On the redbankgreen Partyline: Gourd display at Lighthouse on its penultimate night of the season.
MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
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