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August 21st, 2006 @ 9am
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A couple of impressions linger long after meeting West Side seamstress Milly Hoffman. One is that she’s the embodiment of self-sufficiency. The other is that she’s Martha Stewart on steroids. A visit to Milly's home-based tailor shop on Shrewsbury Avenue...
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August 17th, 2006 @ 7am
Aaron Posner, a co-founder of Philadelphia's Arden Theatre, has been named artistic director of the Two River Theatre. He replaces Jonathan Fox, who was with the company for 12 years and left last month. The Star-Ledger has a story today....
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August 17th, 2006 @ 6am
Esquire magazine investing columnist Ken Kurson has planted a big wet one on GFI Group Inc., a Wall Street firm founded, run and majority-owned by Rumson's Mickey Gooch, who co-owns the Two River Times with his wife, Diane Gooch. The...
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August 16th, 2006 @ 10am
A Little Silver attorney in a Manhattan-based personal injury practice has pleaded guilty with his sole partner to stealing $275,000 from clients. According to a report in Thursday's New York Times, Michael Mann, 40, of Little Silver, pleaded guilty with...
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August 12th, 2006 @ 2pm
Here's the latest on the Sara Swanson flip story we told you about in June: the Madison Avenue house Swanson's been rehabbing for over a year is finally on the market. The four-bedroom, twoTHREE-bath house is listed at $699,000. Will...
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August 11th, 2006 @ 9am
Eight years ago, when the Red Bank Farmers' Market opened in the Galleria parking lot, it had only two vendors. Today, there are 30, and every week more merchants ask to be let in, some hoping to hawk goods that...
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August 10th, 2006 @ 12am
Seventy-nine percent of New Jerseyans have "absolutely no interest" in reading ex-Guv. Jim McGreevey's upcoming book about his struggles with homosexuality and his 2004 political flame-out, according to the Monmouth University Polling Institute. Five percent expressed "a lot' of interest,...
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August 9th, 2006 @ 1pm
Coming off a 13-hour marathon that had him signing geek memorabilia almost until dawn at his Broad Street comic book store, filmmaker Kevin Smith entertained 2,000 fans in Marine Park last night with a mixture of endless approachability and profanity....
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August 9th, 2006 @ 12am
Filmmaker Kevin Smith signed autographs this afternoon at Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash, the comic book store he owns on Broad Street. Tomorrow night, he's scheduled to answer questions from the audience at an open-air screening of his breakthrough...
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August 7th, 2006 @ 4pm
OK, one final post on the race for city judge in Red Bank, Tenn. Barring a demand for a recount from the Disheroon camp, that is. DUI lawyer Johnny Houston, who outpolled incumbent Judge Gary Disheroon in voting Thursday, dropped...
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August 7th, 2006 @ 9am
Somebody out there apparently didn’t think much of Red Bank's history. Back in the early spring, borough resident Dana Benjamin spotted an intriguing item for sale on e-Bay: a book of maps of Red Bank from 1914. Her husband, Brian,...
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August 4th, 2006 @ 10am
Johnny Houston outpolled incumbent Judge Gary Disheroon in the race for city judge in Red Bank, Tenn. last night. The Daily Chattanoogan reports that Houston beat Disheroon by a vote of 845 to 695. As previously reported here at redbankgreen,...
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August 4th, 2006 @ 9am
Nicole Theresa Moore, the 17-year-old daughter of Sea Bright Police Chief William Moore, was identified yesterday as the victim of a fatal crash early Tuesday morning in Ocean Township. Authorities had withheld details of the accident, in which the girl's...
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August 4th, 2006 @ 9am
Filmmaker Kevin Smith will meet with fans at his Broad Street comic-book salon Monday afternoon, and singer Lisa Loeb will join him at an outdoor screening of his breakthrough film "Clerks" in Marine Park Tuesday night. Ava Gacser of Gannett...
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August 3rd, 2006 @ 11am
Red Bank has three new probationary police officers, filling vacancies created by resignations and retirements. George Travostino and John Camarca are recent graduate of the Monmouth County Police Academy. Thomas Doremus begins his training a the academy this month. The...
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August 3rd, 2006 @ 10am
'To roam the two narrow aisles of Johnny’s Jazz Market for the first time is to wonder what in hell kind of phantasmagoria one has wandered into. This may be the only grocery store in the world that, simply by...
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August 3rd, 2006 @ 12am
Our long-distance coverage of the dueling love notes written by kin of both candidates in the race for city judge in Red Bank, Tenn., has not gone unnoticed down in the Volunteer State. The challenger, Johnny Houston, e-mailed us (click...
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August 2nd, 2006 @ 9am
Steve Bidgood, a co-owner of the Salt Creek Grille in Rumson, is featured in a story about gastric bypass surgery in today's Asbury Park Press. Gastic bypass operations shrink the stomach to the size of a golf ball and re-route...
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August 1st, 2006 @ 12pm
Red Bank has a hired a new chief financial officer to replace Terence Whalen, who resigned in June shortly before the disclosure of sloppy bookkeeping that will cost taxpayers. Larry Higgs of the Asbury Park Press has the story about...
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August 1st, 2006 @ 9am
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PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.