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Red Bank Police were searching Monday night for two suspects who posed as coin sellers in an afternoon holdup of a Shrewsbury Avenue jewelry store. According to police Capt. Steve McCarthy, one of the suspects — two black males in...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 5am
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Luis Cortez hand-rolls some 250 cigars a day, using techniques and equipment much like generations of women in his family used. (Photos by Laura Koss) By LAURA KOSS There's nothing fancy about Cortez Cigars. Occupying a former home on Broad...
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March 6th, 2009 @ 10am
TO DIAMOND MAN, BROAD ST. STILL SHINES
Displaced from his longtime storefront, Alan Fisher plans to take over the space now occupied by Papyrus in the red brick structure visible over his left shoulder. Alan Fisher got his walking papers in late January. After 25 years operating...
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 11am
It wasn't hard to find visitors pumping coins into meters in Red Bank's White Street lot at lunchtime last Saturday. Above, Nicole Collman of Manalapan, left, with Rebecca Route of Jamesburg. With some fanfare, Mayor Pasquale Menna announced at last...
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February 27th, 2009 @ 8am
The shelves of Sunny Sharma's business, once stocked with hard liquor, now carry shaving cream and snacks. Milk and eggs have replaced beer as the products featured on the door. Sunny Sharma says he can't catch a break. It's not...
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February 25th, 2009 @ 8am
The planning board advanced the idea of a high-density transit village to be built near the Red Bank rail station. Below, homeowner Neil Spencer reviews a zone map with engineer Catherine Britell while his wife, Wendy, addresses the board. (Click...
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February 19th, 2009 @ 10am
How about it, folks? If you think you know where the above photo was taken, zap us an email, please. We had a light turnout for last week's Where Have I Seen This? Was that because the answer was so...
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February 19th, 2009 @ 6am
Town officials are talking about taking a bulldozer to two houses on the site of the approved-but-not-begun Courtyard at Monmouth complex of apartments, stores and offices. Calling them "a blight on the community," Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna and members...
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February 11th, 2009 @ 8am
Mayor Pasquale Menna speaks as RiverCenter executive director Nancy Adams looks on. Through all the reports that things are worse elsewhere and exhortations that merchants find "opportunity" in the current recession, the topic that the 300 or so people who...
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January 28th, 2009 @ 8am
Ledger Live, the Star-Ledger's charmingly slapdash video newscast, was in Red Bank last night to see if there was any hint of Springsteen fever on the debut of the rocker's new album, 'Working on a Dream.' Show host Brian Donohue...
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January 27th, 2009 @ 2pm
The state Alcoholic Beverage Control division has affirmed the Red Bank Borough Council's order to shut down Best Liquors, moving the case of the troubled package goods retailer significantly closer to possible finality. Mayor Pasquale Menna released the following statement...
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January 27th, 2009 @ 12pm
Big Bill Morganfield performs at the 2007 Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival. Which is hipper, jazz or blues? Or is it the festival itself that's 'hip?' Parking shortages. Exorbitant parking fines. Red tape at borough hall. Greedy landlords. Among...
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January 27th, 2009 @ 10am
Halina Kaminska-Adamski outside her new store. Haven't we been in here before, this narrow space next door to David Levine Salon? Indeed, we have, though it looks and feels quite different. Longtime redbankgreen readers may recall our feature about Gisela...
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January 19th, 2009 @ 6am
Murmurs about the Broad Street store's demise are greatly exaggerated, says the manager. Tiffany & Co.'s 14-month old store in downtown Red Bank isn't going anywhere. So says Vicky Shortland, manager of the the carriage-trade jewelry and tableware retailer, in...
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January 15th, 2009 @ 11am
John Ross addressing the Red Bank Council last night. A decision on whether the borough can shut down Best Liquors may not come from the state Alcoholic Beverage Control division before the end of February, assistant borough attorney Tom Hall...
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January 13th, 2009 @ 8am
Fans gather at the Stash for a 2006 appearance by Kevin Smith. Filmmaker Kevin Smith is closing the Los Angeles version of the Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash store, according to reports. As reported on News Askew, the official...
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January 6th, 2009 @ 7am
Mayor Pasquale Menna. In the face of an historic economic downturn, Red Bank is trimming pay for its planning and zoning board attorneys, looking at a five-percent, across-all-departments budget cut and trying to hold the line in contract talks with...
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January 2nd, 2009 @ 10am
The site of the former Worden-Hoidal Funeral Home on East Front Street, owned by Riverview Medical Center, is not covered by the deal. After a year trying to knit together a consensus, Councilman Mike DuPont finally got a watered-down version...
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December 23rd, 2008 @ 2pm
A distinctive mural dominates the store's White Street facade. Toy and game merchant Hobbymasters has gotten a Christmas/Hannukah gift of its own this year: Forbes Traveler magazine picked it as one of the nation's 10 best toy stores. Inclusion on...
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December 23rd, 2008 @ 2pm
The exterior is just about finished at Union Street Village. But as indicated by the' sample' list of residents in the intercom, the eight condo units as well as a commercial space remain vacant. News that three players in Red...
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December 15th, 2008 @ 10am
Partyline
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
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 ...