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The beachfront borough can now lay claim to its own fair. BY SUE MORGAN As a volunteer at the annual Oceanport Lions Strawberry Fair, Steve Spahr would wonder why the beachfront community he grew up in and still worked in...
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May 21st, 2008 @ 6am
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Scrum chums at Thompson Park. Brian Difiore's feeling a little trampled today. The coach of the Red Bank-based Monmouth Rugby Football Club was out until the wee hours this morning showing the visiting Monmouth Rugby Football Club around town. Huh?...
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May 20th, 2008 @ 2pm
Awards host Joe Piscopo says he was saved by high school theater. It's the local high school equivalent of... well, just call them the Basies. The Count Basie Awards, to be precise, an annual set of honors recognizing outstanding achievement...
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May 20th, 2008 @ 9am
The parade thundered; the skies didn't. Red Bank's two-day centennial celebration went off under a cloudless dome of blue Saturday and ended Sunday at 2p with just a hint of a drizzle. Fairly perfect conditions, all things considered, for the...
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May 19th, 2008 @ 9am
Sunday's Asbury Park Press had a story that took a closer work at the detective work that led last month to the indictment of alleged Red Bank serial burglar Mauro Vasquez-Galvan. The article focuses on the detailed effort to trace...
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May 19th, 2008 @ 8am
An architect's rendering of the proposed condos. The would-be developer of 12 proposed townhouses at the western ends of Drs. James Parker Boulevard and Bank Street told he planning board last week that he's simply following the Red Bank master...
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May 19th, 2008 @ 7am
By TOM CHESEK Guy Gsell, who as managing director helped pilot the non-profit Two River Theater Company to financial success that matched its rising artistic achievements, has resigned to take another job, the Red Bank-based arts organization announced late Friday....
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May 19th, 2008 @ 7am
Vladislav Kovalsky By TOM CHESEK Beethoven? Perhaps you know him as the stony countenance that glowered from atop Schroeder's toy piano in a half century's worth of Peanuts comic strips. Even the most musically illiterate among us is familiar with...
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May 16th, 2008 @ 6am
There's been little formal notice to the public, but word of a plan to close the Fair Haven post office at 4p on weekdays is proving about as agreeable to local residents and business owners as the taste of envelope...
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May 15th, 2008 @ 7am
Grace O'Connor of Shadow Lake, above and below right with Penny Ticehurst of Shrewsbury, tries her artistic hand at capturing the Sea Bright-Highlands Bridge from the deck behind Gaiters restaurant in Sea Bright Wednesday morning. Both women left the heavy...
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May 14th, 2008 @ 4pm
Not to give too much away, but there's a moment in "Mark Twain's A Murder, A Mystery and a Marriage," the new play at the Two River Theater, that involves a last-minute rescue of an innocent by a lawman in...
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May 14th, 2008 @ 9am
Red Bank police have charged a Tinton Falls woman in a string of cases in which she's alleged to have pretended to be either a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency officer. Maria Collins, 41, of Buford Place is in...
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May 13th, 2008 @ 12pm
The R-FH Euro challengers: from left, Sam Wilson, Robbie Trocchia, Margot Keale, Steven Fuschetti and Jennifer Lapp. If you think understanding the U.S. economy is a brain-buster, try overlaying its complexity with currency exchange rates, European history and social trends...
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May 12th, 2008 @ 2pm
By TOM CHESEK The last time we caught up with Aaron Posner, the seemingly Energizer-driven artistic director at Two River Theater Company was in the middle of a boffo double-extended engagement on Macbeth, a tricked-out thrill ride that he co-directed...
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May 12th, 2008 @ 11am
Like the Democratic primary, this thing seems to go on and on. Well, maybe this will end it... or maybe not. A state Appeals Court today ruled in favor of former Heisman trophy winner (and Citigroup bigwig) Pete Dawkins and...
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May 9th, 2008 @ 1pm
Pat Guadagno will navigate the broad channels of Bob Dylan and Mark Twain this month in separate productions at the TRTC. By TOM CHESEK Even on a drab, drizzly Monday night, there's enough of a crowd at The Downtown to...
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May 9th, 2008 @ 11am
The kind of parade George Bowden dreams of: scads of bunting throughout town, with perhaps a giant balloon strapped to the roof of a motorcar, as seen in this undated photo from Helen C. Phillips' "Red Bank on the Navesink."...
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May 9th, 2008 @ 9am
Springsteen signs autographs before last night's show. Bruce Springsteen gave fans something to gush about last night, according to the accounts we've seen so far. His show with the full E Street Band at the Count Basie Theatre included complete,...
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May 8th, 2008 @ 7am
Bruce Springsteen meets with fans late this afternoon before tonight's show at the Basie. Franco Figari came to Red Bank from his home in Milan, Italy this week solely to see Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band take the stage...
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May 7th, 2008 @ 6pm
A New York attorney arrested in Red Bank last month in a bizarre case of alleged police impersonation has been busted again, this time for making lewd comments to a Little Silver teenager, the Asbury Park Press reports. The latest...
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May 7th, 2008 @ 12pm
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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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