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FOR A RED BANK BUNKER, IT’S DOOMSDAY
“I’d almost rather be incinerated than have to live down here,” says Suellen Sims, below inspecting her new home’s fallout shelter, built beneath an earthen berm alongside Harris Park. (ClickContinue reading "FOR A RED BANK BUNKER, IT’S DOOMSDAY"
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March 9th, 2012 @ 11am
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RED BANK COPS BACK ON THE BEAT
Patrolman George Travostino walking Broad Street Thursday afternoon. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD George Travostino has been getting a lot of double-takes lately. Like all patrol-duty cops inContinue reading "RED BANK COPS BACK ON THE BEAT"
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March 9th, 2012 @ 9am
I’LL HAVE WHAT THEY’RE HAVING
With an opening-night reception slated for 8 p.m. Friday, Rumson-raised artist Michael Komar brings his giant portraits to Jamian’s Food & Drink in Red Bank in a show that runsContinue reading "I’LL HAVE WHAT THEY’RE HAVING"
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March 8th, 2012 @ 11am
SHEEHAN RACE SHORTENED TO 5K
Runners turn a corner last year in Fair Haven, which will no longer be part of the race course. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD For George Sheehan ClassicContinue reading "SHEEHAN RACE SHORTENED TO 5K"
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March 8th, 2012 @ 10am
RESTAURATEUR ADDS ‘AUTHOR’ TO RÉSUMÉ
Victor Rallo drains a bottle of vino into a guest’s glass at his book-signing party last Thursday night. (Photo by Stacie Fanelli. Click to enlarge) By STACIE FANELLI Victor RalloContinue reading "RESTAURATEUR ADDS ‘AUTHOR’ TO RÉSUMÉ"
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March 7th, 2012 @ 12pm
LIBRARY TO FETE LIFE OF SIGMUND EISNER
Local-history librarian Elizabeth McDermott, below, with a custom-branded Eisner lightbulb in the second-floor New Jersey Room of the Red Bank Public Library, once the home of industrialist Sigmund Eisner. (ClickContinue reading "LIBRARY TO FETE LIFE OF SIGMUND EISNER"
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March 7th, 2012 @ 11am
By JOHN T. WARD Red Bank-based homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises notched a 6.7-percent sales gain in the first fiscal quarter from a year ago, the company reported Tuesday morning. The closely-heldContinue reading "HOV BOOSTS REVENUE, SHRINKS LOSS"
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March 7th, 2012 @ 9am
RED BANK: CHINESE EATERY DOUBLES DOWN
Victor Kuo’s Temple Gourmet Chinese won approval Monday night to take over half the storefront used by Jonathan Salon, which has consolidated into lesser space. (Click to enlarge) By JOHNContinue reading "RED BANK: CHINESE EATERY DOUBLES DOWN"
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March 6th, 2012 @ 12pm
RED BANK: 7-ELEVEN CHALLENGED OVER 24/7
Planning consultant Rob Freud, representing 7-Eleven, answers a question from resident John Garofalo, left. Below, Freud with the site plan. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A  proposal toContinue reading "RED BANK: 7-ELEVEN CHALLENGED OVER 24/7"
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March 6th, 2012 @ 8am
BOSS FANS FLOCK TO MIDNIGHT DISC DROP
Diego Allessandro and dozens of other fans waited in line at Jack’s for the register to start ringing up midnight sales of the new Springsteen album. (Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "BOSS FANS FLOCK TO MIDNIGHT DISC DROP"
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March 6th, 2012 @ 1am
BOSS TO WRECK A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP
Once again, new product from Bruce Springsteen will get a midnight debut at Jack’s Music, where boxes of vinyl LPs awaited sale last week. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading "BOSS TO WRECK A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP"
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March 5th, 2012 @ 10am
A MONTH OF MENU MADNESS ON THE GREEN
A month of elbow-to-elbow good eatin’ kicks off tonight at the Molly. (Click to enlarge) By TOM CHESEK It’s beginning to give way to Spring around the greater Green, andContinue reading "A MONTH OF MENU MADNESS ON THE GREEN"
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March 5th, 2012 @ 8am
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of February 24 to March 2, 2012. This information is unedited. Robbery occurring at SouthContinue reading "RED BANK: CARS KEYED ON SPRING STREET"
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March 5th, 2012 @ 5am
The Broad Street home of the Woman’s Club of Red Bank is in line for some spruce-up funds from Freehold. (Click to enlarge) The Woman’s Club of Red Bank andContinue reading "HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANTS DOLED OUT"
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March 2nd, 2012 @ 12pm
MYSTERY HAMPTON INN PLAN OPPONENT ID’D
Lawyer Ron Gasiorowski, left, said the owners of a Tinton Falls hotel have been paying his fees for representing Hampton Inn opponent Stephen Mitchell, right. (Click to enlarge) By JOHNContinue reading "MYSTERY HAMPTON INN PLAN OPPONENT ID’D"
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March 2nd, 2012 @ 7am
AT TRTC, AN ACTOR TACKLES TWO PLAYS
Tony winning actor Chuck Cooper is in the house for IN THIS HOUSE, the musical that kicks off its world premiere engagement next week at Two River Theater. (Click toContinue reading "AT TRTC, AN ACTOR TACKLES TWO PLAYS"
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March 1st, 2012 @ 1pm
COFFEE HOTSPOT ZEBU REOPENS AT NEW HOME
After five months of downtime, popular Red Bank coffee mainstay Zebu Forno reopened at a new address Thursday: 12 Broad Street  just a few doors down from the storefront itContinue reading "COFFEE HOTSPOT ZEBU REOPENS AT NEW HOME"
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March 1st, 2012 @ 7am
LATE-NIGHT BURGERS COMING TO RED BANK
Jr.’s owner Mike DeSimone put together a group of investors to buy the yellow building in the background so he could expand his West End-based hamburger business there. (Click toContinue reading "LATE-NIGHT BURGERS COMING TO RED BANK"
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February 29th, 2012 @ 10am
José Melgar, a 32-year-old Red Bank man, was in Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune with a fractured skull and other injuries after he was run over by a trainContinue reading "TRAIN RUNOVER VICTIM IDENTIFIED"
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February 27th, 2012 @ 10am
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of February 17 to February 24, 2012. This information is unedited. Theft occurring between 2-17-12Continue reading "TRIO LOADS UP ON ANTIQUES AND FLEES"
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February 27th, 2012 @ 8am
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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 ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...