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VINCENT J. FAIELLA RED BANK SURPLUS 16 WALLACE STREET I've been here four months. We were in Brooklyn for 79 years — Reliable Naval Tailoring Co. I'm third-generation. I've been living in Little Silver for 15 years. I was born...
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January 25th, 2007 @ 8am
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Rita Lemole may have left her lifelong digs in Monmouth County, but her fellow instructors and other friends from the Community YMCA in Red Bank haven't forgotten her. Lemole, formerly of Middletown and Atlantic Highlands, taught aerobics, spin, Pilates and...
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January 25th, 2007 @ 12am
Kaye Ernst wants Grace Cangemi to succeed her on the Borough Council. But will Mayor Pasquale Menna and his Democratic majority risk giving the tailwind of incumbency to a Republican who came within a couple of dozen votes of winning...
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January 24th, 2007 @ 7am
Today's Asbury Park Press has a story about the difficult rescue of an intoxicated, 25-year-old man who jumped off the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge early Saturday morning to impress a woman he was on a date with. It didn't work: the...
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January 24th, 2007 @ 6am
In a move that stunned her council colleagues, Kaye Ernst Monday night announced that she's resigning and moving to Pennsylvania after little more than a year on the Borough Council. One of two Republicans on the six-member governing body, Ernst...
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January 23rd, 2007 @ 4pm
The ingredients are compelling, to say the least. There's a handsome West Side school building built in 1912 with great bones, but nestled in a neighborhood that sorely needs fresh economic and aesthetic blood. There's a high-profile architectural firm, one...
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January 22nd, 2007 @ 10am
Last time we wrote about Shrewsbury Manor, the 59-unit apartment complex just east of the Molly Pitcher Inn was being prepped for shut-down. The family-owned real estate development firm that built and still owns the complex was planning to replace...
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January 19th, 2007 @ 8am
Ralph Gatta, aka "Johnny Jazz," did not set out to become an institution. It was never his intent to transform what had been a simple family-owned butcher shop into a working monument to what he considers America's greatest art form....
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January 17th, 2007 @ 11pm
The pilot killed in the crash of a single-engine plane in Wayne on Monday night was from Atlantic Highlands. Andrew Coppolo, 55, owned an engineering firm in Orange and flew frequently on business and as a volunteer, ferrying cancer patients...
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January 17th, 2007 @ 9am
OK, so he'll probably have a suit on underneath. Still, it isn't every day that a Supreme Court justice doffs his gown and spills about the job for an audience. Rumson's James Zazzali, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme...
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January 17th, 2007 @ 7am
Best Liquors owner Sunny Sharma and an employee of his Leighton Avenue store have each pleaded guilty to one count of selling alcohol to a minor, according to Police Chief Mark Fitzgerald. But Sharma's legals woes are far from over....
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January 11th, 2007 @ 1am
Mayor Pasquale Menna officiated his first marriage ceremony Monday night shortly before the bimonthly Borough Council meeting, marrying Amilcar Chavez and Cira Carcaño of Red Bank. Weddings before council sessions aren't uncommon. But Menna did the honors in Spanish—the first...
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January 9th, 2007 @ 12am
We thought we'd get something fun started last month when we asked you, dear reader, for your thoughts as to Ed McKenna's post-mayoral career. Now we feel like the party host who's just brought out the vacation photos. To get...
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January 8th, 2007 @ 3pm
Sunday's Star-Ledger has a terrific profile of Fair Haven's Bob Lucky, head of the Fort Monmouth re-use panel and an engineer whose seminal work led to the creation of the Internet. The article, by Wayne Wolley, begins: Bob Lucky earned...
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January 7th, 2007 @ 11am
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January 5th, 2007 @ 12am
The last time Sharon Lee was quoted in the Asbury Park Press, it was in the context of her work on the Planning Board. She suggested an applicant install an irrigation system to keep the lawn in front of his...
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January 4th, 2007 @ 12am
Gone are the days when a plunge into the ocean at the start of a new year was the province of a few wingnuts bent on proving their iconoclastic chops to a conformist world. No more. Now, it seems, everyone's...
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January 3rd, 2007 @ 12am
They said all the right things at Monday's Borough Council reorganization. Mayor Pat Menna praised Republican Councilman John Curley for having run a "good race" for mayor, and pledged to 'work together' with him and the other members of the...
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January 2nd, 2007 @ 2pm
So, after 18 years riding the bench as a member of the borough council, what kind of mayor will Pasquale Menna be? At his New Year's Day swearing-in, Menna said his vision "is to continue the progress" of the McKenna...
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January 1st, 2007 @ 11pm
Herewith, a sampling of New Year's resolutions, and thoughts about New Year's resolutions, garnered on a recent walk through town.
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December 29th, 2006 @ 4pm
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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.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
LONG LIVE LOCAL NEWS!
"Long Live Local News" flags from redbankgreen's 20th anniversary celebration in Marine Park Tuesday prove to be the perfect compliment to s ...
MUMS AND WITCHES
17 Prospect Ave (Photo by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
KAYAKERS CLEAR RIVER JUNK
Partyline photo: "The Navesink Nymphs" clear floating tires from the river.
PAINT IT PURPLE?
Caption: ‘Should it be done purple?’ Perfect day. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
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MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner photographs praying mantis at church.
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
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