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At yesterday's Memorial Day send-off for 87 reservists attached to the Red Bank headquarters of the 6th Motor Transport Battallion, there was little talk of recent polls showing that Americans have soured on the Iraq war. Nor was there much...
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May 29th, 2007 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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By Linda G. Rastelli In a hearing characterized by polite sparring between lawyers, the Red Bank borough council sat through nearly four hours of testimony in the case against Sunny Sharma and Best Liquors without a decision Tuesday night. No...
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May 22nd, 2007 @ 11pm
After six months of delays, the Borough of Red Bank's administrative law case against Best Liquors will finally happen next Tuesday. That's the plan, at least. At stake for Best Liquors owner Sunny Sharma is his ability to sell beer,...
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May 18th, 2007 @ 10am
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May 14th, 2007 @ 10am
Late in the first half of Monmouth Rugby Football Club's April 28 match against Bayonne at Thompson Park, a Monmouth player slowly righted himself from the turf after taking a hard tackle. It was a while before he was unsteadily...
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May 10th, 2007 @ 8am
We had just one response to last week's picture, and damn if it wasn't yet another correct one from Carl Colmorgen. That's five Colmorgens in a row, for those keeping count. How is it that a guy can return to...
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May 10th, 2007 @ 12am
A unidentified Red Bank teenager, drunk and separated from his partymates, wandered into an Ocean Township home early today, where he noshed on food before passing out in a chair, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. From the story: The...
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April 30th, 2007 @ 5pm
The state of New Jersey has extracted a $1 million settlement from Chevron over a 2006 oil spill in the Arthur Kill, and Navesink River oyster beds are among the expected beneficiaries, according to the Star-Ledger. The $1 million will...
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April 25th, 2007 @ 6pm
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April 24th, 2007 @ 10am
At 9:30a Wednesday, Mayor Pasquale Menna was in his law office talking on the phone with redbankgreen about some borough business and trying to get off the line posthaste. He had an obligation to meet. Back in March, while reading...
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April 19th, 2007 @ 12am
A long-anticipated hearing on the future of the Best Liquors alcohol license was postponed yesterday before it began. Two members of the Red Bank Borough Council— John Curley and Michael DuPont— were out sick, and a third, RJ Bifani, recused...
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April 11th, 2007 @ 7am
It's finally on. Four months later than expected, the Borough Council will hold a trial-like hearing Tuesday night to determine the fate of involving Best Liquors, Sunny Sharma's packaged-goods store that last year became a lightning rod for quality-of-life complaints...
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April 4th, 2007 @ 2pm
It's turning into a break-out-the-Champagne kind of week for downtown Red Bank. First came news last week that Tiffany & Co plans to open one of its high-end emporiums on Broad Street. Now there's a poll released Monday by Monmouth...
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March 27th, 2007 @ 10am
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February 21st, 2007 @ 9am
The Asbury Park Press has published a cookbook produced by its staff that features "signature recipes" of entrees made by chefs at 40 Monmouth and Ocean county restaurants. Three Red Bank restaurants are featured in the book, titled "Shore Gourmet."...
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February 2nd, 2007 @ 12am
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
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
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December 19th, 2006 @ 10am
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December 8th, 2006 @ 8am
The Borough Council's trial-like hearing on a series of seven allegations against the liquor license of Best Liquors has been postponed for a month, according to today's Asbury Park Press. The reason: store owner Sunny Sharma's hiring of a new...
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December 6th, 2006 @ 7am
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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 ...