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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
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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By SUE MORGAN Never mind that 'farewell forever' send-off held last year at Donovan’s Reef. The legendary Sea Bright landmark is sticking around and kicking up sand a bit longer. Today's lackluster real estate market has benefited regulars of the...
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June 6th, 2008 @ 6am
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
For a while there Saturday, it looked like here-we-go-again time at the Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival, which has wrung itself out from late spring downpours more than once in the past. But an early afternoon rain lasted less...
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June 3rd, 2008 @ 6am
The Red Bank Primary School was the colorful setting Friday night for the annual International Night, and this year's food-and-culturefest was another sellout, with 320 tickets sold, organizers tell redbankgreen. Click images to enlarge.
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June 2nd, 2008 @ 8am
Harry's, in a photo taken in February. Harry's Lobster House in Sea Bright is in bankruptcy, trying to stave off a sale of its assets by state tax officials, and a story in Sunday's Asbury Park Press business section attempts...
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June 2nd, 2008 @ 7am
Red, at 3 Broad Street. Restaurant reviewer Karla Cook of the New York Times New Jersey section in found a lot to like, as well as some shortcomings, in a review of Red that ran in yesterday's edition. Getting right...
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June 2nd, 2008 @ 6am
Festival spokesman Ira Rosen, left, arrives at Marine Park this morning to take the wraps off the 22nd edition of the Red Bank Jazz & Blues blast in Red Bank. OK, so what about the weather? As previously noted, the...
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May 30th, 2008 @ 8am
Councilwoman Grace Cangemi says residents should have warnings before nearby hydrants are flushed, resulting in discolored water flowing through taps. Some highlights from last night's bimonthly meeting of the Red Bank council: TEACHERS OF THE YEAR: In addition to primary...
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May 28th, 2008 @ 9am
It may have been the middle of the day, in the middle of the week, in the middle of Red Bank. But English accents — and universal gestures — ? were in abundance Wednesday at the Dublin House as soccer...
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May 22nd, 2008 @ 7am
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
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
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
Flowers, asparagus, cheesecake, pickles and more: the Farmers Market passes the sniff test with flying colors. A longtime Red Bank institution kicks off another run through summer and into fall with Sunday's return of the Farmers Market at the Galleria....
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May 5th, 2008 @ 11am
Some pix from Saturday's Cinco de Mayo celebration at the Red Bank Charter School. (Click to enlarge.) Email this story
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May 5th, 2008 @ 5am
Bob Sickles Sr. riding high on his 1948 John Deere MT tractor. Eighty years old, and with a still-thick crop of hair, Bob Sickles Sr. sits at his son Bob's desk and picks through a boxful of documents in his...
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April 23rd, 2008 @ 6am
All that's left of the McDonald's on Shrewsbury Avenue in Tinton Falls is a pile that includes the eatery's play area. A sign lying on the sidewalk out front says the restaurant will be rebuilt and reopen by "end of...
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April 22nd, 2008 @ 6am
The 2007 closing blasts, that is. Brace yourselves for a bit of window-rattling pyrotechnics over the Navesink tonight. Better yet, leave the sofa and television behind for a couple of hours and see for yourself as the night sky blooms...
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April 16th, 2008 @ 10am
Norma Todd, a co-founder and director of Red Bank's Lunch Break, died Thursday at Riverview Medical Center. She was 87 years old and still served as titular director of the charity. Based on Drs. Parker Boulevard, Lunch Break is a...
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April 4th, 2008 @ 9am
Among the 16 eateries participating in April's 'Dine Downtown' promo is Sogno Ristorante on Broad Street. By TOM CHESEK Those who cherish a favorite Red Bank restaurant or two probably don't know the half of it. A walk around the...
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March 31st, 2008 @ 7am
Partyline
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.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...