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Monthly Archives: August 2016

SHREWSBURY: NAVESINK EFFORT UPDATED
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SHREWSBURY: Effort to find and reduce fecal coliform levels in the Navesink cites a small success involving horse manure
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August 5th, 2016 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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SHREWSBURY: TORCIVIA HONORED AT Y EVENT
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SHREWSBURY: Benedict Torcivia of Red Bank-based Torcon Inc. will be honored at The Community YMCA's Annual Benefit in October.
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August 5th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: ORPHANED OPOSSUMS SAVED
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RED BANK: Baby opossums taken for care after their mother is killed.
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August 4th, 2016 @ 7am
RED BANK: FREE SUMMER FILMS AT THE BASIE
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RED BANK: Free summer movies return to the Count Basie with a Saturday a screening of the hit animation "Inside Out."
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August 4th, 2016 @ 6am
RED BANK: A HANDS-ON FAVORITE FUNDRAISER
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RED BANK: The popular Touch-A-Truck fundraiser returns for a 7th annual time courtesy Monmouth Day Care Center, September 24 at Red Bank Middle School.
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August 4th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: FOOD & CLOTHING POWER CHURN
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RED BANK: Retail Churn reports new bake shop coming and other changes in restaurant and retail scene downtown.
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August 3rd, 2016 @ 10am
SHREWSBURY: Crime and arrest reports.
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August 3rd, 2016 @ 8am
RED BANK: BASIE REELS IN FRESH HOT TUNA
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RED BANK: The Basie serves up a canny catch of the day -- Hot Tuna and Leftover Salmon.
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August 3rd, 2016 @ 6am
RBR SUMMER CAMP PRESENTS LION KING JR.
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LITTLE SILVER: The students of Red Bank Regional's Visual and Performing Arts Summer Academy welcome all ages to a performance of "The Lion King Jr.," on Wednesday August 10.
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August 3rd, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: Monmouth Civic Chorus says "lend me a tenor" (and a bass, and a baritone) as the award-winning organization invites new mnembers to audition for the upcoming 2016-17 season.
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August 3rd, 2016 @ 5am
RUMSON: NAVESINK HEALTH RALLY SLATED
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RUMSON: Clean Ocean Action and other enviro groups plan a 'rally' to save the Navesink from runoff-borne pollution.
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August 2nd, 2016 @ 12pm
MIDDLETOWN: WRITERS IN THE HOUSE
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MIDDLETOWN: Once and future spouses Yolanda and Guy Fleming keep inspiration in the house, during a Thursday tandem book signing at the public library.
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August 2nd, 2016 @ 10am
SANDY HOOK: ENTRY FEE HIKE PROPOSED
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SANDY HOOK: Entry fees would rise 33 percent next summer under a proposal by the National Park Service.
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August 2nd, 2016 @ 7am
RED BAN: Crime and arrest reports.
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August 2nd, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: BIG MOVE FOR BASIE BOARD
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RED BANK: The Count Basie Theatre announces a newly merged Board, and a newly appointed VP of Development.
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August 2nd, 2016 @ 5am
RBR TECH TEACHER HONORED AS ROLE MODEL
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LITTLE SILVER: Tech teacher Mandy Galante is recognized as an educator and role model by an award winning former RBR student.
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August 2nd, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: BEE IN THE MOMENT
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RED BANK: This week's Summer Scenes photo zeroes in on a busy bee.
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August 1st, 2016 @ 1pm
RED BANK: APARTMENTS ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: A proposed six-unit apartment building needs a carload of variances.
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August 1st, 2016 @ 12pm
RED BANK: A SIXTH ANNUAL ‘CROSSING’
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RED BANK: Two River Theater hosts the sixth annual Crossing Borders Festival of Latino plays, beginning with a free Neighborhood Party on Wednesday.
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August 1st, 2016 @ 12pm
RED BANK, FH, LS HOST A NIGHT OUT
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RED BANK: Police and local officials join sister boroughs Fair Haven and Little Silver in National Night Out activities on Tuesday, August 2.
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August 1st, 2016 @ 10am
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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 ...
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.