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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit takes a look at the noteworthy durability of a pop-rock band based in Middletown called the Wag. Given a name they weren't sure they wanted when they started out a decade ago, the powerpoppy...
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September 23rd, 2008 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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The scene at a house on Wallace Street near McClaren Saturday morning. The big question leading up to last weekend's Red Bank Townwide Yard sale — how much trash would be left out afterward — has been answered. "There were...
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September 23rd, 2008 @ 10am
Wanted for a proposed center at this borough-owned building: a management entity. A task force formed earlier this year to suss out the potential costs of a Red Bank community center got a green light last night from the borough...
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September 23rd, 2008 @ 9am
Deer seen last week in Thompson Park, Lincroft. Email this story
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September 23rd, 2008 @ 8am
Red Bank's Manny Carabel got this shot of President Bush debarking Marine One at Cross Farm Park in Holmdel this afternoon. During a 90-minute visit, Bush attended a closed fundraiser for two Republican Congressional candidates — neither from Monmouth County...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 5pm
The weather was largely spectacular and the excitement level high for Saturday's first-ever Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale. Sellers at some West Side locations had hoped for a bit more traffic, and the two families who set up tables in...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 8am
By SUE MORGAN With the tuition tab for each of about 27 students that Sea Bright sends to the Shore Regional High School District coming in at $81,000 for the 2008-09 academic year, borough officials say they will keep pushing...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 8am
Almost a year after it was first proposed, a ban on plastic bags remains hung up. It's on tonight's agenda for a public hearing and adoption vote. But a proposed ban on the distribution of plastic grocery bags, repeatedly tugged...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 7am
Things like props, scenery, costumes and even rehearsal schedules don’t matter too much when it comes to New Jersey Repertory Company’s long-running series of script-in-hand readings at its downtown Long Branch playhouse. It's a series that's seen the likes of...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 6am
A day in the sunshine preceded an evening of awards at the I Build, U-Build We Build a Better Community Family Day at Red Bank's Count Basie Park on Saturday. Honorees included Larry Hamm, a human rights activist in Newark;...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 6am
James Richter, long-distance bargain hunter. redbankgreen covered a fair amount of ground Saturday, but we kept hearing about a guy who'd really clocked some miles for the Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale. Word was he'd traveled 140 miles from Kingston,...
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September 21st, 2008 @ 10pm
Members of the Red Bank Fire Department were on the scene following the partial collapse of a foundation wall at 92 Wallace Street Saturday afternoon. The wall buckled inward around 1p during renovation work on the house. No one was...
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September 20th, 2008 @ 5pm
The suspect in the robbery of the Sovereign Bank branch on Broad Street in Red Bank earlier this month has admitted to that heist, according to a Red Bank Police official. The Star-Ledger reports that 39-year-old Robert Arndt, who was...
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September 19th, 2008 @ 3pm
Believe the balloons: No fewer than 147 homes, plus the public library, are participating in Saturday's Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale. One "seller" is giving everything away, free. Somebody else has a toilet and sink for sale. There are Christmas...
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September 19th, 2008 @ 8am
Today's edition gives the rundown on these events happening locally tonight and tomorrow: • A funeral, of sorts, for Gram Parsons, a guy who's been dead 35 years but whose music is very much alive in a tribute show in...
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September 19th, 2008 @ 8am
We're getting a lot of inquiries today at redbankgreen asking when the list of participating sellers in the Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale will be available. Answer: Late Friday morning. Registrations are still coming in at the Red Bank DPW,...
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September 18th, 2008 @ 1pm
'Halfway to St. Paddy's Day?' That's a holiday? In the immortal word of Frank McCourt, 'Tis. Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit stumbles upon a brewing local phenomenon: beer-serving establishments, and the bands that play them, celebrating the midpoint between...
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September 18th, 2008 @ 7am
Step right up if you think you can identify the location of this week's Where, folks. The email in-basket is now accepting entries. In fact, it's overdue for some. Last week's image drew no responses at all. The location of...
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September 18th, 2008 @ 7am
A side-view mirror from the bus lies on the ground and the crumbled pickup truck is visible in the intersection, above. Below, damage to the bus shows the impact was in the area of the driver's seat. A pickup truck...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 3pm
A Middletown woman has a date in muncipal court next month on disorderly persons charges that she abandoned three gerbils and a hamster in the woods, the Asbury Park Press reports. If found guilty, she faces up to $8,000 in...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 11am
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EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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 ...