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Monthly Archives: May 2009

Contractors working on improvements to a nearby intersection are using the borough-owned lot as a staging area. A wooden form for making concrete slabs was built at center, and a load of stone was dropped closer to the river. A...
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May 27th, 2009 @ 8am
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Fashionistas with creations in the show include, from left, juniors Megan Norton and Marcella Schepp of Little Silver and freshman Azharia Damian of Red Bank. Outre is in this Thursday when members of the Red Bank Regional High fashion club...
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May 27th, 2009 @ 6am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit offers a preview of something that's become a summertime staple: the return of Red Bank Street Life, the series of free outdoor mini-musicfests that take place at the sidewalks and storefronts each Saturday night....
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May 26th, 2009 @ 9am
Do you see green everywhere you go? As in money flying out the windows of poorly insulated buildings? Opportunities to improve energy efficiency at nearly every turn? Then it may be time for you to suit up. The Red Bank...
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May 26th, 2009 @ 8am
Photographer Bobbie Kingsley spotted this foursome clustered together opposite her Monmouth Street studio last week and "couldn't resist" taking their picture, she tells redbankgreen. The women asked that they be identified by the headline above. (Photo courtesy of Bobbie Kingsley)Email...
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May 26th, 2009 @ 6am
Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of May 8 to May 15, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Theft occurring at Broad St. and reported on 5-15-09. Owner reported that two former employees had...
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May 26th, 2009 @ 5am
Navy vet Rich Ardolino of West Long Branch cuts new names into the war veteran's monument at RBR. (Click to enlarge) An engraver was busy Friday adding names to a war monument on the grounds of Red Bank Regional High...
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May 23rd, 2009 @ 9am
Rumson police and the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office say they are still investigating a report of gunshots on Ridge Road early this morning, but don't have anyone in custody. Investigator Richard Incremona of the prosecutor's office tells redbankgreen that he...
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May 22nd, 2009 @ 11am
It's Memorial Day weekend, in case you haven't heard, and already the first tentative notes of the warm-weather music season are wafting out over the greater Red Bank oRBit. We're just a couple of weeks from the Red Bank Jazz...
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May 22nd, 2009 @ 10am
Police on the scene at 7 Ridge Road this morning. A SWAT team was mobilized and at least one Rumson home was evacuated this morning after reports of shots being fired in a residential neighborhood of Rumson. Authorities aren't yet...
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May 22nd, 2009 @ 9am
Pizza Fusion plans to take over the vacant space at left and the storefront now being vacated by Sole Solution, right. A Florida-based organic pizza chain that uses recycled Coke bottles in countertops and makes deliveries by hybrid car is...
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May 22nd, 2009 @ 8am
Red Bank police are investigating a report by two men who said they were robbed at gunpoint on Shrewsbury Avenue early Wednesday morning. The victims, borough residents 21 and 17 years old, told police that while walking on Shrewsbury between...
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May 21st, 2009 @ 6pm
Here's another video take on the announcement earlier this week of the Top Ten beaches in New Jersey. This one's by Bill Day, whose work we've posted before — most recently, a look at how the economy is affecting boat...
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May 21st, 2009 @ 12pm
If you were planning to see a live stage show this Memorial weekend, today's edition of Red Bank oRBit has the details on what we're not too timid to call three of the best shows we've seen all season. There's...
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May 21st, 2009 @ 12pm
URBAN: A PERFECT FIT FOR DOWNTOWN?
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The future home of Urban Outfitters, as seen in late February. In signing Urban Outfitters to take over the ground floor of a prominent Red Bank address, building owner Keith Alliotts has finally bagged what many retailers have long said...
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May 21st, 2009 @ 11am
"The lovely park by the pond on Buttonwood in Fair Haven" is how reader S. Pilar described, correctly, the location of last week's Where. "Where the turtles sunbathe. Shhh. Don’t tell anyone." For readers unable to make out the image,...
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May 21st, 2009 @ 6am
Count Basie Theatre board member (and Basie Awards host) Siobhan Fallon-Hogan, Education Director Yvonne Lamb Scudiery, and CEO Numa Saisselin at April's announcement of this year's nominees. By Tom Chesek A Romeo, a Juliet and a thoroughly modern Millie were...
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May 21st, 2009 @ 6am
When the wraps come off, the retailer is expected to occupy all the street-level space formerly divided among four businesses. After months of speculation, it's official: Urban Outfitters is coming to Red Bank, delivering what retailers hope will be a...
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May 20th, 2009 @ 4pm
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, our always hyper-current arts and entertainment web companion, takes a little quantum leap into the future, with a look to the months ahead at Red Bank's own Two River Theater. The powers that be...
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May 20th, 2009 @ 12pm
Memorial Day weekend is nigh, which means it is time for the annual return of the palm trees to the sands at Chapel Beach Club in Sea Bright. A crew was out giving the club a tropical air under sparkling...
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May 20th, 2009 @ 8am
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FALL COLORS IN RED BANK
redbankgreen's Partyline captures peaking fall foliage on a Red Bank street corner.
FALL AT THE COURTS OF RED BANK
On the Partyline: stunning foliage at Red Bank's "medieval office park."
WALK FOR DEMOCRACY
The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center led a "Walk for Democracy" Sunday from Riverside Gardens Park to the cultral center on Drs. James Park ...
Go big or go home
On the redbankgreen Partyline: Gourd display at Lighthouse on its penultimate night of the season.
MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
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