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Cindy McCain, right, wife of GOP presidential contender Sen. John McCain, arrives for lunch this afternoon at the Broadway Diner on Monmouth Street, accompanied by state Sen. Jennifer Beck. McCain was coming from a fundraiser in Rumson. She and her...
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August 12th, 2008 @ 1pm
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Have you checked in on Red Bank oRBit yet today? We've got two new articles that might stoke your taste buds. • Big name chef/restaurateur/cuisine imp David Burke is the star of the salad bar this month at, of all...
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August 6th, 2008 @ 2pm
Now available: 46,000 square feet in Shrewsbury. Just ten months after the owners of Red Bank's SuperFoodtown expanded into the former Stop & Shop supermarket half a mile away on Newman Springs Road, the new store will be shut down,...
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August 5th, 2008 @ 1pm
You've seen the teaser logos for about eight months. Well, the countdown is finally over. Today, redbankgreen marks its first significant expansion with the launch of Red Bank oRBit, a new website dedicated to comprehensive coverage of the local arts,...
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August 1st, 2008 @ 8am
Believe it, Mike, you're on the list. No Joe's proprietor Mike Tierney welcomes customers during the Sheehan Classic in June. New Jersey Monthly magazine's annual list of the state's best restaurants is out, and the Red Bank area is represented,...
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July 29th, 2008 @ 12pm
Forty years after Dieter Bornemann took his restaurant's name from an epithet, he says it's time to change both the name and the menu. It's not quite 'auf wiedersehen.' But the Little Kraut, Dieter Bornemann's accolade-winning German restaurant next to...
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July 24th, 2008 @ 9am
Legendary guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and pianist-singer Tony DeSare photographed at River's Edge Café, where they'll be returning this weekend as part of the Summer Jazz Café series. By TOM CHESEK Maybe it's that seventh string on his guitar; a custom-crafted...
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July 22nd, 2008 @ 7am
Belmar Mayor Ken Pringle has apologized for cartoonish characterizations of Staten Islanders and "guidos" in a newsletter distributed earlier this month to residents of rental houses in town, according to a wire service report. Pringle, who also serves as Red...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 8am
Spanish mudslinger extraordinaire Juan Pablo 'Tito' Martinez will bring a load of Andalucian clay and a borrowed potter's wheel to downtown Red Bank this weekend. Martinez, like his father and grandfather — both also called 'Tito' — before him, is...
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July 16th, 2008 @ 2pm
In the grillwork of the now-vacant Meridian nursing home on West Front Street in Red Bank, a family of house sparrows has taken up summer residence. Last week, the little ones had mom flying off again and again to return...
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July 16th, 2008 @ 9am
Reconstituted as The Driving Service, the company's founders (seen outside Brannigan's in Red Bank in this 2007 photo) are Vince Falcetano, Norm Dannen, Zach McCue and Colin Keany. Readers of redbankgreen may recall our feature article of a year ago...
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July 14th, 2008 @ 12pm
Maybe it was the price of gasoline, but most observers agreed this year's KaBoom crowd in downtown Red Bank wasn't quite as teeming as it's been in recent years. Still, last night's fireworks show was a blast, as befits the...
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July 4th, 2008 @ 4am
A glimpse of the 2007 show via an alley on West Front Street. For some reason, clicking on the KaBoom fireworks website starts a song that features "let it rain" as a refrain. There wasn't some other middling Springsteen anthem-to-partying...
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July 3rd, 2008 @ 12pm
Tim McLoone at a charity event in 2006. Always in motion, he's seemingly everywhere this week. By TOM CHESEK He's the man who explains, as he tickles the ivories in a cable commercial for the Rum Runner, his Sea Bright...
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July 2nd, 2008 @ 11am
All the dolphin gawking was the subject of a piece on last night's NBC Nightly News, hosted by Middletown-raised Brian Williams. By SUE MORGAN Save the airfare and the money you would have blown on souvenirs — if it's a...
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July 2nd, 2008 @ 6am
Some shots from last night's Tiki Party at the Red Bank Elks Club overlooking the Navesink. Organized by Red Bank RiverCenter, the annual event raises funds to pay for the lights and decorations on display downtown at Christmastime. Email this...
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June 26th, 2008 @ 8am
The Two River Times reports this week that publisher and advertising executive Claudia Ansorge has won a reversal of her DWI conviction. Superior Court Judge Paul Chaiet, sitting in Freehold, ruled from the bench on Wednesday that the state had...
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June 20th, 2008 @ 2pm
Travis Radcliffe's 'Monmouth Street,' one of 18 of his pieces on display at Echo through the end of the month. One glance at the above painting, and we were transported back to the lonely world of Edward Hopper. There's an...
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June 20th, 2008 @ 10am
The name is Italian for 'eleven,' as in 11 West River Road, Rumson. The Jersey section of yesterday's New York Times dropped in at Undici in Rumson and came away favorably impressed by the new Tuscan-themed eatery. Actually, reviewer David...
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June 16th, 2008 @ 10am
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
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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.
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 ...
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