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August 14th, 2007 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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By LINDSAY SAKRAIDA To a foodie, the news that the owners of Sogo Sushi on Monmouth Street spent four years preparing for the opening of their new restaurant wouldn't be terribly surprising. After all, there are so many factors to...
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August 10th, 2007 @ 6am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Buying Donovan's Reef for Sea Bright borough's use is either (choose one) a "great investment" in the town's future or a "nutty" waste of taxpayer’s money. Battle lines were drawn in firm but civil tones last...
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August 8th, 2007 @ 1pm
Fair Haven embarks on round two of its public brainstorming effort over how best to utilize its public spaces along River Road tomorrow night. A workshop, to be led by Cynthia Nitikin, vice president of the nonprofit New York-based consultants...
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August 7th, 2007 @ 8am
By LINDSAY SAKRAIDA Though the name would lead you to believe otherwise, the erstwhile La Petite France on East Front Street was not French cooking. Not, at least, according to the new chef and owner, Frédéric Vidal. "I don't say...
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August 3rd, 2007 @ 7am
In a move that embattled Best Liquors owner Sunny Sharma and many of his customers see as a blatant attempt to harass him out of business, the borough of Red Bank painted the curbs at Leighton Avenue and Catherine Street...
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August 1st, 2007 @ 3pm
Today's Star-Ledger takes a look at the efforts of NewYork/New Jersey Baykeeper Andy Willner to restore oyster beds in the New York region, including in the Navesink and Shrewsbury Rivers. The article offers some historical perspective on the economic importance...
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July 30th, 2007 @ 7am
It's as Jersey as the Sopranos: the Star-Ledger's Munchmobile, a van with a giant polyurethane wiener on the roof that tours the state every summer in search of the best eats — ice cream, burgers, Italian, seafood, whatever. Well, yesterday...
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July 21st, 2007 @ 12am
Just hours after a municipal court hearing on the latest allegations of an alleged sale of alcohol to a minor, Red Bank police are dropping the charges, redbankgreen has learned. Borough attorney Tom Hall tells us that Javier Lopez-Ruiz, the...
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July 19th, 2007 @ 2pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI The case against Best Liquors clerk Balvinder Singh, accused of selling beer to a 19-year-old two weeks after the Borough Council revoked the store’s alcohol license for sales to minors, was adjourned in Red Bank Municipal...
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July 19th, 2007 @ 11am
Pop star Bon Jovi is suing the Ocean County-based maker of an energy drink called Mijovi for trademark infringement, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The suit against was filed after the singer and Middletown resident previously known as Jonathan...
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July 19th, 2007 @ 7am
Here's pianist Tony DeSare playing some electrifying stride piano on 'Fly Me to the Moon' during his Jazz Arts Project show earlier this month at the River's Edge Café. DeSare, along with Bruce Williams on alto sax, will back Joe...
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July 18th, 2007 @ 9pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Feeling intense heat as a result of last week's bust of an employee for the alleged sale of beer to a minor, Best Liquors owner Sunny Sharma broke his months-long silence this morning to defend the...
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July 18th, 2007 @ 4pm
Taking a lesson from art gallery openings, a Broad Street jewelry store is planning to bring a party atmosphere to nighttime shopping this summer with the addition of in-store live music, food and special events. Hamilton Jewelers is hosting a...
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July 17th, 2007 @ 11am
The front in the battle between the Borough of Red Bank and Best Liquors shifts to Trenton later this month, when the state Alcoholic Beverage Control division will decide "whether there is an overriding public interest" in immediately terminating the...
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July 17th, 2007 @ 7am
You'd think, as one wag at Borough Hall puts it, that anybody who works at Best Liquors "would be carding his own grandmother" these days, with the store's license revocation up on appeal before the state Alcoholic Beverage Control division....
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July 13th, 2007 @ 5pm
Andrew Gennusa was just 21 years old when he and his brother, Jason, founded Manhattan Bagel Co. with a single store in in a Middlesex County strip mall. It turned out to be a the start of a heady ride....
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July 13th, 2007 @ 9am
Having adopted a measure to cut back on nightlife noise from restaurants and bars in the business district, the Red Bank Council last night turned its attention to a quality-of-lifer in residential areas: late-night car honking. The problem, given the...
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July 10th, 2007 @ 6am
More than 50 kids participated in a three-on-three basketball tournament held this morning at Count Basie Courts. Organizers from the Pilgrim Baptist Church and other groups say they plan to make the event an annual one. Click on the pix...
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July 7th, 2007 @ 1pm
Tom Labetti and Eileen (nee Weller) Labetti of Elm Place got married recently at St. James Church on Broad Street. The red-haired bride beamed magnificently, the wedding party looked youthful and happy, and the newlyweds headed off for their reception...
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July 6th, 2007 @ 5pm
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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 ...