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The leading candidate for a replacement bridge — seen above in red — could be built with minimal shutdowns of the existing structure, proponents say. Top left, a rendering of the bridge with a pocket park on the Red Bank...
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June 20th, 2008 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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A short, simple profile on video by our pal Pim Van Hemmen of Fair Haven. Pim's a staffer at the Star-Ledger, which owns TVJersey, where this piece was posted. Email this story
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June 18th, 2008 @ 1pm
Rumson billionaire Mickey Gooch and his partners are suing a former employee of their Wall Street brokerage for allegedly poaching 22 staffers while still at the firm, the Asbury Park Press reports. In their suit against Donald Fewer of Colts...
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June 18th, 2008 @ 11am
The cast of Mark Twain's A Murder, A Mystery and a Marriage, with Erin Weaver at right. Star-Ledger theater critic Peter Filichia, working up a Jersey version of the Tony awards, considers Erin Weaver of the Two River Theater Company...
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June 16th, 2008 @ 12pm
The 2008 edition of Blondie celebrates the 30th anniversary of its classic album Parallel Lines Tuesday at the Count Basie. By TOM CHESEK Blondie, one of the best live acts ever? Come again? This is a group of people, after...
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June 13th, 2008 @ 3pm
Were they cut from a lesser bolt of corduroy, we might expect some snarkasm about this article from the four young men behind the Errant Notice, Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High's totally, totally unauthorized student newspaper. For starters, they might wonder...
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June 13th, 2008 @ 9am
Some of the torsos seen at the finish line in 2006. For the 15th time since it was moved from Asbury Park, shortened to a five-miler and re-christened, the George Sheehan Classic is set to take over Red Bank's downtown...
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June 13th, 2008 @ 6am
Bob Sickles Bob Sickles and some of his employees from Sickles Farm Market found themselves on a television sound stage in the Chelsea section of Manhattan a couple of months back when who should walk in but Martha Stewart. Before...
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June 13th, 2008 @ 6am
A milestone passed enroute to Nevada. (Photo by Tim Hathaway) After a two-day layover forced by illness, father and son Elmer and Jeff Jackson were back in the saddle this week, topping their first mountain and crossing their first state...
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June 12th, 2008 @ 11am
Firefighters and other rescue personnel on the scene of a fire at Rumson Road and Buena Vista Place in Rumson last night. Wow, who needs reporters when there's blogging Mayor Mike Halfacre? In a post on his site today, Halfacre...
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June 12th, 2008 @ 9am
After giving him the boot as borough attorney in April, Matawan Democrats are now explaining their action by claiming that Pasquale Menna charged too much and gave the borough a "lack of adequate representation," according to a report in this...
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June 11th, 2008 @ 3pm
Former mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka-Adams' challenge to the the outcome of Sea Bright's 2007 mayoral election can continue, a Superior Court judge has ruled, according to the Asbury Park Press. The fact that Kalaka-Adams failed to post a $500 bond to...
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June 11th, 2008 @ 6am
A 22-year-old River Street man shot and killed himself at the Red Bank Primary School after calling police to say he was suicidal last night, authorities say. Peter Warshaw, first assistant Monmouth County prosecutor, tells the Asbury Park Press that...
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June 10th, 2008 @ 5pm
Chuck Prophet Chuck Prophet, a member of the seminal '80s psychedelic country band Green on Red, brings his solo act to the floor of Jack's Music Shoppe tomorrow. Critic Robert Palmer of the New York Times proclaimed Green on Red...
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June 9th, 2008 @ 5pm
Judas Priest! It's that guy from Idol as Iscariot, with the singer from Almost Queen as Jesus (we kid you not)! By TOM CHESEK House is in reruns; the Basie's about to go dark til autumn; you've got no gas...
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June 9th, 2008 @ 11am
Steep elevations and heat proved to be major challenges in the first week of Elmer and Jeff Jackson's cross-country bike ride. At left, Jeff copes with fatigue. Elmer and Jeff Jackson's 'No Regrets' fundraising bike ride across America was slowed...
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June 9th, 2008 @ 8am
Joe Simonelli By TOM CHESEK Chicago has the profanely profound David Mamet; Pittsburgh the late great August Wilson. New York? Well, at least as the rest of the country sees it, there's no playwright more attuned to Manhattan than the...
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June 6th, 2008 @ 7am
A man reported to have been an owner or co-owner of Teak restaurant on Monmouth Street and other upscale eateries was convicted Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan of conspiracy to distribute more than 2,200 pounds of marijuana. Marc Munson,...
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June 5th, 2008 @ 12am
Ponceno Records, scene of the December robbery and stabbing. Two young Bronx men have been sentenced to prison terms for their roles in last December's robbery of Ponceno Records on Shrewsbury Avenue, which left the store's owner bound and bleeding...
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June 4th, 2008 @ 11pm
Elmer and Jeff Jackson at the fog-wrapped Golden Gate Bridge as they prepared to start their ride yesterday. (Photos by Tim Hathaway.) The father-and-son pair Elmer and Jeff Jackson completed the first 20 miles yesterday of what we're now told...
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June 4th, 2008 @ 1pm
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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.
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.